The menace of religion and ethnicity is seriously alarming in Nigeria today and if care is not taken, it’ll be fatal in due time.
It baffles me sometimes how people naively react whenever you post or share something outside your belief or some even considering you a natural enemy simply because your name doesn’t tally with their doctrine.
Some time ago, while heading to a particular village, a bikeman who was conveying me asked which side of the village I was heading to? But he was surprise by my answer having noticed that I am a Muslim, that the side is mainly Christian residents. Can you imagine that a community you can trek round within 30minutes have part themselves due to different beliefs.
Again, having met with one of my colleagues, who told me while introducing himself that he’s from Jos, Hausa but not a Muslim (he was so specific). What has where you’re from has to do with religion? I asked.
We the middle beltans suffer the most. Once traveled to the south, I can’t convince that I’m not an Hausa guy. Same thing happened when I reach the north because I can’t speak their language. Why are they considering this that important? I can bet you that I have met an Igbo Alhaji, not just but a practicing one and “vice versa”.
One of my Dons once said, while in UK on holidays, he observed that they believe in progress and not religion. That to some extent, religion is even meant for the old ones…lol. But here in Nigeria, our problem is not even the educated ones but the educated illiterates, who are fond of blindly following the greedy so-called leaders who wants cheap popularity by all means, outside the ethics of socialism and management we were taught.
Great youth of our time, let call a spade, a spade. Let embrace peace, love and harmony to see Nigeria of our dream. There’s no place to call our own.
#IStandWithOneNigeria
– Yakubu, Yousef D.
