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Nigerian Cleric Urges Lawmakers To Criminalize Ethnic And Tribal Sentiment
The General Overseer of Hour of Mercy Prayer Ministries Worldwide.
(Ori oke Alaseyori) Prophet Moses Muyideen Kasali, has urged the
National Assembly to enact a law outlawing and criminalising ethnicity
and tribal identity in the country.
Kasali said that law abolishing ethnic and tribal sentiments and
affiliations, would make the dream of a united and prosperous Nigeria
realisable.
The cleric, who spoke on the occasion of his birthday celebration at
the church’s headquarters in Ori Oke Alaseyori, Ibadan, Oyo State, said
winning the war against tribalism was a necessary condition to tackle
the twin challenges of hunger and insecurity confronting the country.
Kasali advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government
to step up efforts to ensure the return of the 110 school girls abducted
in Dapchi, Yobe State and as well get to the root of the recent cases
of corruption springing up in the country if the administration is to be
taken seriously.
According to him, the country does not need elaborate restructuring
other than to simply abolish all tendencies making citizens define
themselves on the basis of tribes as Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo, Tiv,
Ijaw etc, but to identify themselves as Nigerians.
Kasali said: “I want to advise our lawmakers at the National Assembly
to do something. I once asked from God what really is wrong with us in
Nigeria that we are having these challenges of insecurity, backwardness
and scarcity of all good things. The Lord answered and said we have been
the cause of these problems.
“Again, l asked Him how have we been the cause of our problems and
the Lord sai d that In Nigeria, we identify ourselves first with our
tribes but that what should be more paramount to us in identifying our
selves should be the fact that we are all Nigerians.
“We must abolish all acts that prioritize our tribal differences over
and above the fact that we are all Nigerians. This is why I want to
advise our lawmakers that the only restructuring they can assist us with
is to make a law that would abolish tribal identity and that anyone who
identifies himself or herself as coming any tribe should be punished.
“If we can just get rid of seeing ourselves as coming from a tribe
first before being a Nigeria, our problems, particularly security and
sociopolitical ones, would be solved. Do you know why Ghana has solved
many of its problems? When you see a Ghanaian, he identifies himself
first as a Ghanaian before you know what tribe of that country he
belongs. They have perish tribal identity.
“But here in Nigeria, we like to always identify and introduce
ourselves as coming from the Igbo, Yoruba, Fulani or Hausa or Kanuri
first before realising the fact that we are all Nigerians.
“If we can’t solve the problem of tribal differences, we can’t solve
security issues. The insurgency challenge arises from our tribal
differences and the way we have become too conscious of this.
Abolish
all forms of regional differences, dividing Nigeria along geo political
zones and stop seeing yourselves first as Yoruba, Tiv, Fulani or coming
from any tribe. Let us promote the fact that we are all Nigerians. We
must identify ourselves as one Nigeria and all our security problems
will be solved once and for all.
“When we have been able to solve the challenge of tribal differences
leading to solving security issues, we would then have agricultural
produce in abundance as we would no longer have security issues such as
herdsmen menace, cattle rustling and Boko Haram among others,” the
cleric said.
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