What Mutfwang Must Learn From Soludo

You can play politics, but certainly not with human lives. I think the Jos-Plateau killings have lasted far too long to be considered mere coincidence. These deaths are not caused by aliens, neither are they intractable. They can be stopped if the Leaders decide to save the people from themselves.

 

This is where I submit that localized genocides are perpetrated by local persons and can only be solved by localized solutions. First is the courage to look at those in the centre of all this and tell them the hard truth.

 

Like Soludo demystified the so-called Unknown Gun Men (UGM) and their Biafra-agitation smokescreen, the Governor in the Plateau must look beyond the religious and tribal smokescreen to root out this local monsters plaguing Jos and environs. Actions are fueled by incentives. What is the main incentive for this local terror? Who is providing the incentive — persons or institutions?

 

We must drop the justifications and move against the local monsters. Once you point to ethnic or religious reasons, you miss the point. Like the Southeast pointed at marginalization in the last five years and almost became a ghost land. I believe Governors should compare notes at very critical curves, until Jos rises for Jos there would always be imaginary justifications for criminality.

 

 

— Mazi Ejimofor Opara