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Our Responsibility
“When the owl
says it is afraid
of the eyes of its
young ones, it
forgets that it
gave birth to
them.”
116
African Proverb
“I learned I was not, as most Africans believed,
the victim of my circumstances but the master of
them.”
Legson Kayira
We need to start taking responsibility for our society and the
problems we face. If we don’t, who will?
We must understand that every country in the world has different
problems: terrorism, war, famine, natural disasters, etc.
Somehow, they try to solve them without passing the buck.
If we don’t take responsibility for our problems, the truth is that
nobody else can or will.
Nigeria as a nation has been plagued with all kinds of crises, including:
■ Killing of about eight policemen in Odi community, Bayelsa State
■ Reprisal for the killings, which ended in the massacre of the
people of Odi by armed soldiers
■ Jukun and Tiv ethnic crisis
■ Inter-ethnic clashes between the Hausa residents and the
Yoruba indigenes in Shagamu and the reprisals in Kano
■ Kaduna and Kano religious riots
■ Reprisals of the religious riots in the South-East
■ Yelwa indigene/settlers crisis
■ Reprisals of the Yelwa crisis in Kano
■ Ijaw/Itsekiri/Urhobo communal predicament
■ Oodu’a People’s Congress disturbances in various communities
in Lagos
■ Bauchi religious intolerance
■ Resource control dilemma
■ Abduction of foreign oil workers in the Niger Delta
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