Daniel Oyetayo Kenomore writes: I, like many of our citizens at some points in my life, have stopped to ponder over the breaking up option, but honestly which ever way you look at it, nigeria as currently constituted is not working and most likely will never work.A very few number of countries that .. (are) ... waxing stronger despite their complex configurations,have evolved over short periods of time. if it was the uS you had in mind, then I can say that its history is radically different from nigerias. Besides, their founding fathers put down the right frames of structure even right from the beginning to ensure continuous progress of society. Most nations large or small that ever survived very long, are dramatically different from Nigeria. Most of such nations have an ethnic or racial group, which numerically is bigger than the rest put together and this majority group leads the rest in all aspects: namely Politics, Economics, Science and Technology to mention a few. In Nigeria, no single nationality on its own, is bigger than the rest put together. A classical example of such society as Nigeria is the now extinct former Yugoslavia and we all know the outcome. No one is interested in breaking up nigeria just for the sake of breaking up. But when the people and the leadership are not interested in any meaningful reform of the terrible talent-suppressing and backward-looking system, disintegration becomes inevitable. As great as Pa Awolowo was in the history of the Yorubas, I have personally felt even as far back as 1979 that one of his greatest errors of judgement was not working to get the Yoruba out of nigeria during the ill-fated civil war. My worry right now, is that new generation of Yoruba leaders are following the same road to nowhere, but that is a topic for another day. The serenity .... in your journeys across nigeria, I suspect, may just be the calmness before a big storm. People have completely lost all hope and have simply resigned themselves to accepting things as they are; they are simply despodent. Virtually all nations like Nigeria that have broken up, have ended up faring even better. Malaysia and Singapore did it, the Baltic States in the former USSR did it, even those of the former Yugoslavia are coping fine despite their violent separation. The Sudan variant will eventually stabilise and no one should use their current difficulties barely two years after separation as a reason against the legitimate aspirations of other people to run their own affairs independently. South Sudan will soon be OK, as the common instinct for collective survival would compel their leaders to work together and move their country forward. Finally, the preferred option for me is for a peaceful separation in Nigeria, but I am also aware that if violence should come, the outcome will still lead to separation as no nation or empire ever survived two civil wars. As a people, we must be getting prepared for the day after!!!
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:50:41 +0000
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