By Seun Opejobi Former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili, on Friday decried the spate of killings across Nigeria. Ezekwesili ...
By Seun Opejobi
Former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili, on Friday decried
the spate of killings across Nigeria.
Ezekwesili lamented that Nigeria has become a massive
killing field and mass graves of innocent children, youth, women and men.
Posting on X, the former minister pointed out that there is
a raging battle for the soul of Nigeria.
According to Ezekwesili: “There is a raging battle for the
Soul of Nigeria, a country which has turned into a massive killing field and
mass graves overrunning with the blood of innocent children, youth, women, and
men brutally murdered, battered or abducted without any consequence to the
criminals.
“Every Nigerian of goodwill – regardless of ethnicity,
religion, economic status, and political persuasion – knows that the Nigeria we
once knew is gone.
“The collective momentum must now swiftly gather to the
tipping point for Nigerians to compel a legally mandated National Conversation
that will fundamentally negotiate and determine the value we place on our lives
and the values that will uphold, preserve, and dignify a New Nigeria and
Nigerians.
“Throughout history, dead countries commenced their dying
when human life ceased to have worth.
“This is the kind of time Nigeria find itself, but we can by
a collective will confront the demons that have dwarfed the realization of our
country’s giant potentials and change the course of our checkered history.”
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