A Catholic Bishop has kicked against the agitations by separatists especially the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) to secede from Nigeria.
Bishop Charles Harmawa, the Catholic Bishop of Jalingo Diocese, made this disclosure in a chat with the Daily Sun adding that secession is not the solution to the alleged marginalizations as being claimed in some quarters.
He said there is beauty in diversity and there is also not denying the fact that people have the right to self-determination. And to this, he said there is a special procedure.
The cleric further advised that rather than calling for separation ''we should be more concerned with how to address the injustices and discrimination''
Below is an extract of the interview:
Excerpt:
Some Nigerians are tired of being part of the country. They want to secede, should they be allowed to go?
In the first place, people have the right to self determination but there is a procedure towards attaining that. And again, I find the argument that Nigerians are group of strange fellows, flimsy because this is not peculiar to Nigeria. There are so many countries in the world that are divided along these lines as Nigeria.
Why do we still seek international relations while we are so different in our cultural, political and religious affiliations? It is because we are a race and cannot live without one another. So we need to have a rethink on this issue. I am well aware of the injustices in all its forms and the level of marginalization in the country and strongly suggest that these issues should be addressed and urgently too, but the solution is not in going our separate ways.
In any case, there is no guarantee whatsoever that if you are granted independence, you would not have problems in your own country based on differences of clan and other variables. The same mismanagement of funds that has crippled country today is also prevalent at the regional, state and local government levels.
So it is not about secession. It shouldn’t be. We should be more concerned with how to address the injustices and discrimination, the uneven distribution of resources and others and think more on how we can live together as a country because, like it or not, we are one country and a there is beauty in our diversity.
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