Friday Olokor, Jos
A humanitarian organisation, Builders of New Nigeria, has called on Nigerians to shun the nation’s 58th independence anniversary on October 1, 2018 (today) because there is nothing to celebrate in the country.
The organisation described as sad, undesirable and dangerous a situation where the government had been suspected and accused of complicity in killings.
According to the BNN, the government must, therefore, do everything needful to set the right impression, saying the “government or leadership that routinely arouses the suspicion of its own people would soon lose its legitimacy.”
“In essence, I insist, there is nothing worth celebrating. Therefore, Nigerians should, rather than role out drums on that day, should actually fly the flag half mast and begin to come out with solutions and not just pray. I’m a Christian and for many years, we have been praying,” the BNN stated.
The Convener and National Chairman of BNN, Yinka Quadri, issued the warning on Friday during a news conference held at the Internally Displaced Persons Camp, Geosciences Institute, Anguldi in Jos, and entitled: ‘Relentless killings and a nation now at a crossroad.’
He said for the killings to continue for so long was “a confirmation that we are something else, other than human beings.”
He said, “What is worth celebrating in this country today? If we are not people living within the fringes of mediocrity, as a nation that has been on for 58 years, what do we have to celebrate? The question about the celebration is not just a Middle Belt affair.
“Just look behind me and see the human beings and not animals. We all have children, we have wives and husbands. How would we feel to wake up suddenly and see some people invade our homes? What are these people going to celebrate?”
Quadri regretted that some Nigerian compatriots had been looking towards the 2019 general elections, adding “And it pains people like us to discover that it is the election that is very important to them and not even the lives of our people.”
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