By Simon Abah
The deaths of and whispered deaths of people in far-away places in
Kaduna can lead
to the deaths of hundreds of people in the state capital. These have gone on
for too long with no end in sight other than preachment for tolerance and for
people to learn to live in peace when the dust settles. Leaders go about
begging people to live in peace. Beg? No-one is ever punished; the benefactors
are always in the wind.
Pastors, Bishops, Sheiks or Chief Imams, have failed
the north by the way they have handled these repeated crises in northern
Nigeria because they are habituated to being politically correct every time
instead of calling a spade by its name, shrinking violets. Who doesn’t know
that politicians in the north play on prejudices to divide and tear the people
apart? What is amazing is how fast youths go about killing people. These
killings would go on unabated until these youths have jobs to do but who will
provide them with jobs.
