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Nigeria: Why Unrest Persists in Ebiraland - Mazai
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
30 June 2008
Posted to the web 30 June 2008
Abdulraheem Aodu
Kaduna
As part of the efforts to stem the perennial spate of violence in Ebiraland, various groups and clans converged at Arewa House, Kaduna at the weekend for a peace summit.
The second annual international peace summit, which was organized under the aegis of the National Association of Eziogu Clans, however identified lack of good leadership and followership for the violence that usually occurred in Ebiraland.
According to NAEC President, Alhaji Suleiman Mazai, lack of purposeful, visionary and courageous leaders to guide the Ebira people along the path pleasing to God and failure of the people to be good followers have continued to rob the area of the needed peace.
Mazai said the people should hold themselves and their leaders responsible for the flight of peace from Ebiraland, stressing that selfishness on the part of both the leaders and the followers, lack of spirit of mutual forgiveness, indiscipline, anger, pride, impatience, laziness, carelessness and irresponsibility, neglect of culture and traditions were the negative traits that have continued to make the people to realize their oneness and unity.
The NAEC president however expressed gratitude to God for affording the Ebira the opportunity of the peace summit to re-examine themselves and realize that the solution to their problems lied in their individual hands.
He therefore charged the people to support NAEC in charting a new course of actions for the people of Ebiraland all over the world in order to ensure the actualization of the agenda of the people of the area.
"I thank God for seeing us through the trauma we recently passed through at home in the spate of violence, killing, looting and destruction of property and the general anarchy and mayhem that you all knew occurred in Okene and other parts of Ebiraland. Let God guide us through the discussions at this summit to a lasting solution that will prevent a repeat of this experience in the future.
"Today, we are at the threshold of good days ahead for the Eziogu peoples because God's time is the best. We believe that God has heard our prayers and cries over the past years. He has now made our past sufferings and deprivations history and testimony. All we need now is to learn of Him, believe in Him and obey Him and He will guide us to success.
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"We believe that the Eziogu clan and by extension the Ebira peoples can achieve love instead of hatred, joy instead of sadness, hope instead of despair, peace instead of fighting, truth instead of falsehood and light instead of darkness in our lives," he said during the well attended meeting.
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