Fraudulent Amalgamation Of 1914: Sovereign National Conference The Way Forward?

Nigeria sovereign national conferenceThe proverbial Tower of Babel came crumbling when God visited the builders with language differences. It is however not surprising to see Nigeria in disarray with over 400 languages from 400 ethnics groups, forcefully fighting for unity. Perhaps God never intended Nigeria to be one, but for the intervention of the British who came preaching one Nigeria in the name of God. Today, the same God the British preached during the falsehood amalgamation of northern and southern protectorate in 1914, they’ve abandoned. Can someone now begin to understand the deception behind the amalgamation?


A closer reflection on the present situation in Nigeria provides answers on the need to cross-check the foundation of Nigeria. The Nigerian nation has been a polity of insurgence where a few elite and the born to rule “mantra” manoeuvred recklessly the affairs of Nigerian states, leaving the remains of national calamity as their contributions to national development. How else can one explain the visibility of a failed state? Nigeria in her bid to fight for unity has turned toddlers to pure water hawkers in her numerous streets-an explanation of the ravaging poverty holding sway in the land. Scenario of this nature is not only an aberration, but also an insult to modern day civilization, considering the fact that Nigeria is regarded as the sixth largest oil producing nation globally.


Our graduates are left roaming the streets in search for daily bread. Do you blame them when there are no employment formations to keep them busy? Will you also blame them if they end up becoming robbers and kidnappers? To make matters worst, security operatives that ought to check mate these social vices end up sharing the loots with robbers in the wee hours of the night. They rob at night and on broad day light, they mount road block threatening to shoot anybody who refuses to do the usual twenty naira bribe. A nation where election loosers are decleared winners and politicians bury human parts to exercise political supremacy over political opponents, where men of God have equally left the pulpit to contest for political positions. For such nation, the road to Somalia is definitely not an uphill task.


I will continue to reiterate that we must, as a matter of urgency cross-check the foundation of Nigeria in order not to leave the future of unborn generations in the hands of murderers. Those who keep wishing for a better Nigeria under this present amalgam should be reminded that manners don’t fall from Heaven any more, if in doubt, ask the Israelites. A word , they say is enough for the wise!!