WOUNDS EXIST.

By Political Animal.

Our wounds in the nation need nurturing care in order to heal. If we are to nurture and heal, we must admit that the wounds exist.Unfortunately the media has become the tool that worsens the wounds.They have lost their voices in nation building.
They are rather pulling the nation apart and expanding the wounds.

Because of the existence of this wounds,words spoken by each ethnic group will just be waiting to be animated from wrong perceptions.

They are weaponised to offend or to upset regardless of any good intentions by the speaker.

Those who have lorded it over the majority are suffering from guilty conscience.This triggers prejudices and myopic consideration of issues of national interest .The reason many of them jump off the handle for little or no reason.

They react by misrepresenting facts with their ethnicised versions that can take us to nowhere.

Somebody saying that his vision of Nigeria is of the SouthEast as Singapore,the North as Dubai,the South- South like Norway and the South-west like Germany should not attract insults.

It began to attract insults on social media because there is an existing wound in the heart of the ethnic groups that made up the nation .That nobody wants to be reasonable again.

He was of the opinion that if a new federal constitution with a regional structure is in place,it can create insentives for that to become a reality in a few years time.What is wrong with his thinking,is it not patriotic enough? . Should he be insulted and abused because he came from a particular ethnic group?

The fact is that the states are no longer working ,their financial viability is questionable.Nobody is engineering the capacity to develop the solid mineral resources existing in each state.

My thinking is that the regional structures may help to achieve this developmental purpose.But it may not work with the same kind of politicians presently in governance over the years.We may likely get the same result.

We can have ceramic industries and coal mining industries in some states .We can export fruit juices and wine and poultry products.We can make chocolate confectioneries from cocoa.We can be like Holland with our cows.

We can eliminate the issue of one member of the family being a millionaire and the rest are depending on him through massive industrialization.Having products with export values and not just raw materials.

But let us recognize that there are unhealed wounds all over the place.We must heal the wounds before we plan and plant.

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