nothern nigeria ready to break up.
the north of Nigeria are ready for a separation process, which will
either involve regionalism or total disintegration.
On the topic, Sagir Aliyu said: Yes, I’m in support of BREAK UP.
Because most Nigerian minds are full of hatred, sentiments, ethnicity,
religious differences and tribalism. Some are calling for revolution, but
instead of loosing lives and property; let the romance end. Also if the
2015 election will result to loss of lives and property, the romance
should end before then, Please.
Idris Musa also commented on the subject: Break up is long overdue.
Why can some have freedom to perform their religious rites while
some are deprived? I can’t remain at home on Fridays like Christians do
Sundays, Marital dossiers are only emphasized for only one wife &
four children. Economically, we are considered parasites because they
refused to revamp agriculture. They refused to explore oil deposits in
more than five places in my region. Let us break so that we have
fresh air.
Musa Maiunguwa: I beg it’s long overdue! Let’s break up anyhow
regardless of the consequences. I want to be governed by ISLAMIC
LAW not this Infidel system of government. I hate to be governed by
DRUNKARDS.
These comments were the prevalent type of response from
Northerners on facebook to my earlier article on the subject, “Nigeria:
Do We Need To Break This Up?”
A majority of northern masses are now making this call as situations
keep deteriorating in the nation and undeserved ethnic insults and ethnic
torment has become the order of the day from certain quarters in
Nigeria. Additionally, it appears that Nigeria as formatted and the
perceived disenfranchisement of certain aspects of the South,
justify and subject us and Nigeria as a whole to a most terrible regime
that is unable to secure life in the north and yield for us the social,
economic and developmental dividends of democracy; as poverty
reigns at its highest level in the north which is unfairly economically
disadvantaged.
Today, Nigeria has 100 million poor, however there is an uneven
distribution of the poverty with the South doing more favorably,
whereas the north suffers the most with its level of poor as high as
80% living under a dollar a day in many states, this compares to the
south that has levels from 20-50%. This level of poverty in the
north exceeds the level in neighboring Mali, Chad and Niger, all sharing the
northern ecological and cultural demographics.
Trading blame as to whom and what military and civilian dictatorial and
usurpist regime caused this high level of poverty is puerile, meaningless
and disingenuous; and it contributes nothing towards addressing the real
and present epic crisis. Also, asserting that because northern dictators
have ruled the nation for 60% of its independent life over 40%
Southern rule is meaningless and does not solve the deadly poverty
situation.
The ordinary masses are suffering. We gain absolutely nothing from
Nigeria’s oil, apart from what we buy of it at the pumps at a price
above the global mean, and rather we suffer from oppression and
terror as a consequence of, and thanks to bloody oil money. Only the
cabal enjoy from the current state of Nigeria. Let it be known that
the voices of many so-called northern leaders, which are obviously the
loudest, do not represent the sentiments of us suffering masses,
wrecked with poverty and lack of opportunity. These ‘northern
elders’ are part of a national cabal that exploits and extorts the nation.
These cabal obviously have no honest interest in our region as can
clearly be seen by their lack of investment in the north, building all their
factories in the South. We the real people of the north are eager for
autonomy of our region. This is our position.
The landlocked north is clearly disadvantaged. None of the regimes
provided the transportation networks to link the north to Nigeria’s
ports as would have been the basic and smallest requirement to re-
establish a northern economy.
Our agriculture industry has been left to decay. Our textile industry has
been completely abandoned, as we suffer from the ‘curse’ of oil and
the illusion of Nigeria’s wealth from a mono-economy, which has
satisfied and favored only a set of greedy cabal without regional
distinction, north, east, west or south.
We see regionalism with the plan of possible disintegration as an urgent
next best step towards a northern cultural and economic awakening.
Many of us across Nigeria now agree that military dictator; Aguiyi Ironsi
made an error on 24 May 1966, when he released Decree No. 34,
which dissolved the regions. Excerpt: “The provisions of the Decree
are intended to remove the last vestiges of the intense regionalism of
the recent past, and to produce that cohesion in the governmental
structure which is so necessary in achieving, and maintaining the
paramount objective of the National Military government, and indeed
of every true Nigerian, namely, national unity. The highlights of this
Decree are as follows: The former regions are abolished, and Nigeria
grouped into a number of territorial areas called provinces. . . . Nigeria
ceases to be what has been described as a federation. It now
becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria.”
We hope Nigerians in South territories share our sentiments and will be
happy to peacefully and respectfully discuss modalities of separation
into economically independent regions which will test and pave a path
for emotional, marital, economical, military and other national related
changes and challenges necessary for possible separation in the future.
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