By Political Animal.
I try as much as possible to take a leave from the issue of tribalism from ethnic Political Twitter group and the mess keeps drawing you back.We should stop these unhidden ethnic slurs in our communication.
Our division along ethnic lines has become so visible that it can slice butter under heat.
Calling unprintable names to each of the ethnic groups should not be allowed to be an official language of communication in this perilous time.
Rhetorics that stoke division along ethnic lines will continue to divide ourselves along such tribal lines.We may eventually fight ourselves to extinction when the time comes if nothing is done.
We have not learnt any lesson from Rwanda, Libya,Syria, and Yemen.What about the world wars.
Isreal never recovered from
“To your Tents O Israel” looking at their present population.
We should be wary of such posts on WhatsApp.The number of such hate languages and lies against one another circulated along tribal lines ,if you are constant online knows no bounds.
Many receive these messages and flow with them , thinking that they are defending their own ethnic group,all because it matches the screwed up narrative of ethnic biases against people from certain part of the nation.
When you think you have heard enough,then boom another ethnic post and hatred hits you even harder.There is so much Lamentations or condemnations.
There are volumes of such hate messages in circulation that is alarming.It is almost getting to the point that people are tempted to kill any man anywhere who doesn’t belong to their ethnic groups if the opportunity presents itself.Such people are privately arrested and detained and murdered in cold blood without people’s knowledge.
This makes the case for restructuring or peaceful dissolution in a more peaceful way very imperative.
Unfortunately ,those holding elective and selective posts in Nigeria keep fuelling ,increasing, raising the bar of “talk anyhowness” every day.
The unfolding events means that ,it is either all parts of the nation work together to make the whole work or split to make a ” part” work.
If we collectively, are no longer prepared to strive for a better Nigeria,then let us all , strive peacefully for a better ” part”.
May it not reach a stage where a poor man’s greeting would now be mistaken for begging.
Final word.
They are setting us all up for genocide.
This is not the time for emotional reactions.
USE YOUR HEAD.
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