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Original Post Date: 2011-01-29 Time: 09:00:07 Posted By: News Poster
By Steve Osuji
LET us open this most delicate issue with a quotation taken from The Nation (Tuesday, January, 18 2011, page 12) under the story, “Two killed in Jos fresh violence”.
The Plateau State police commissioner, Abdulrahman Akano said: “The Christian youths started throwing stones at the soldiers. They held one of the Hausa-Fulani boys the soldiers were escorting and killed him.
“The soldiers opened fire in defence, killing one of the youths”.
‘Akano said the situation had been brought under control’,
The report went further: STF (Special Task Force) Commander Brigadier General Hassan Umaru said: “Can you imagine civilian youths attacking soldiers? Despite my appeal to youths to give peace a chance, they started throwing stones at my men because they saw them escorting INEC ad-hoc staff that are Hausa-Muslims.
“The incident disrupted the voter registration, but that is over now. The exercise is now going on smoothly”.
If this report was not culled from a reputable national newspaper of The Nation’s caliber, one would have described it as the most facile, most absurd and indeed farcical conflict report one ever read in any newspaper. A most rudimentary context analysis of the above exerpts throw up a million and one unanswered questions. Here are a few: In a blood soaked Jos North LGA where bombs have been thrown and churches razed, and wounds are still red, what is the intelligence in soldiers escorting Hausa-Muslims into Christian neighbourhoods? How could stone-throwing youths over power soldiers of the STF, snatch one of the people being escorted by soldiers and kill him? How is it that the soldiers opened fire on the youths only after the person they are escorting had be killed and in opening fire on the Christian youths, only one of them was killed? So shall we say it was one-one ‘goalless draw’ and thereafter everything became calm and normal again, to quote C.P Akano and Brig. Gen. Umaru?
No, everything is far from the norm or normal in Jos as every discerning Nigerian can read. In fact, the above incident which happened on Monday 17 January, 2011 is just a signpost of the looming apocalypse that has been set up over Nigeria which may only be conflagrated by the Jos crises. It is far from normal when those drafted to quell the fighting and keep the peace have become dyed-in-the wool and are how part of the gory landscape.
Nothing foretells the looming doom better than the statements made during the period of the above incident (Sunday 16th and Monday 17th 2011) from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and its Muslim counterpart, Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) trading accusations and threatening fire and brimstone. Not missing a much more detailed press statement by the Plateau State branch of CAN.
From their statements, the matter in Jos seems to have gone out of their hands. Wild-eyed youths and fifth colummsts seem to have taken over the battle field. It seems to have gone beyond dialogue, beyond civil engagement and even beyond prayers. It is now in the realm of anguish borne by body counts and missing limbs.
From the CAN statement signed by its National President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and General Secretary Elder S.L.S. Salifu, the telling portion reads: “This letter is to let the Nigerian Army and her relevant security agencies know that the Christian community in Nigeria is getting restless over the endless, senseless and unprovoked killing of Christians both in Plateau State and Borno State”.
And from JNI, here is its own posting to Nigerians; the critical portion: “The state government must realize that the lives, honour and dignity of Muslims and indeed all Nigerians is too sacrosanct to be sacrificed on the alter of ethnic chauvinism and political expediency. Those desperate individuals bent on perpetuating these dastardly acts must develop the sobriety to fathom the grave consequences of their action on peace, stability and development of Plateau State and of Nigeria”. This statement is signed by Sheikh Dr. Khalid Aliyu Abubakar as secretary General of JNI.
The ethno-religious crises in Jos, Plateau State came to a head in 2001 and since then, that marvelous tableland in central Nigeria with a temperate strain of weather has become a killing field. The clashes between Hausa-Fulanis and indigenes, between Muslims and Christians and the shrapnels of which naturally hit the large population of visitor elements like Igbo and Yoruba, started with bows and arrows and cutlasses.
Today, sophisticated guns and lately, bombs are being deployed. Let us recollect that a few years ago, the U.S: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had released a damming report that put the life span of Nigeria as an entity to 15 years (about 7 years hence). Most Nigerians yelped and rained abuses at the authors of the report.
If today, bombs are being deployed freely in an inter-ethnic fued, are we not about to beat the deadline set for us by the US agency. Do we expect to see nuclear bombs go off on us before we realize that the joke is on us?
Yes, it may be argued that the disgruntled cabal behind the Abuja bombings may be cashing in on the Jos tinder box, but the point is that we have something like Armageddon starring us in the face.
What to do? President Goodluck Jonathan must take charge of that situation before the next bomb goes off in Jos. He must do whatever needs to be done quickly and firmly. He must show courage. If he must change service chiefs or IG or whoever to bring sanity to Jos, he must do so this night.
He may need to declare an amnesty for all involved in Jos, assuage generously, the pains of victims on both sides and finally, deploy the Emir of Sokoto, the Gbom Gwon Jos, CAN and JNI and make them make peace at all cost. There should be no victor or vanquished and all aggrieved must forgive and forget. In an inter-ethnic and inter-religious warfare, chasing culprits will only serve to aggravate the matter.
Continuous mediation by men of goodwill is the better and lasting solution. Such men still abound and the presidency must press them to work quick. Attack and reprisal will only lead us, the nation, to perdition.
Let’s stop the next bomb.
Osuji is a freelance journalist
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Original date published: 27 January 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201101270438.html?viewall=1