Okim
+Okim-Alobi Oyama , Anchor of +Nigeria We Serve says he has been inspired to write this, after reading the posts and comments of some of our fans. We quote him verbatim.
"After reading some of the numerous contributions and comments here on#NigeriaWeServe , I have been inspired to write something on violence because some of our fans and followers have been seriously agitating for violence and revolution. I must say that Violence is the wrong choice of approach for Nigeria because using violence to stop violence only helps to aggravate violence but using mediation, negotiation and dialogue to stop violence alleviates violence. Violence has never been instrumental in the resolution of conflict, as a matter of fact, violence is detrimental to any system because the repercussions are colossal, devastating and preposterously deleterious. Nigeria is too big a nation to condescend so low to violent activities, Nigeria is too great a nation to resolve in employing violence as an antagonistic tool to the amelioration of her problems, Nigeria is too great a nation to allow enemies and antagonists of the state to ridicule her into employing the most undemocratic, non diplomatic, and amazingly inhumane act of violence to solve her problems.
Anyone canvassing for the use of coercion and violent protestation in Nigeria, is only succeeding in throwing Nigeria into a state of pugnacious belligerence, that is capable of dismantling the entire nation, thereby positioning us in a state of chaos, anarchy and doom.
Nigeria is not a military, totalitarian or fascist state that employs the use of coercion as a tool to communicate her grievances, Nigeria is driven by the principles of fundamentalism in human rights, obeisance to societal morals and etiquettes and a liberal nation where the citizens are at liberty to freely express their views in a more democratic and civil manner. Let no one be deceived that violence is the only panacea to the heinous, gross, impudent and hostile quandaries reverberating within the confinement of the nation called Nigeria. There is no nation without problems, however, the maturity and development of a nation is astutely determinant on the strategies she employs in dealing with her problems. You all are very much knowledgeable about the ruins and perils caused by the civil war. Violence is costly, sometimes too costly that a nation becomes too impecunious to afford it. Imagine the turmoil and devastating travails enveloping nations like Egypt, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Libya . These nations have paid and are still paying as a result of revolution, violence and war. Apart from what we see on television and read on the Internet and newspapers, a warred nation is not just prone to the destruction of lives and properties, it goes way beyond that to defying the secrecy and decency of the human entity through hellish acts of war like rape, genocides, violation of human rights, segregation and discrimination, poverty, drought, extreme health disorders and diseases, etc.
These and many more are the things that will befall Nigeria if we resolve to violence. Imagine being separated from your loved ones in a most inhumane manner? Imagine watching your loved ones brutally murdered or raped right before your eyes and you can't do anything about it because you have a gun pointed to your head? Imagine being denied the leisures, comforts and pleasures of life because you are gallivanting from one place to the other to save your life? Imagine sleeping outside, under trees, exposed to harsh weather conditions, prone to mosquito bites and demeaned to the level of eating weeds because the nation has been impoverished as a result of war. This is what violence, revolution and war causes, it is brutal, destructive, abysmal, animalistic and above all cataclysmic. We must shun violence and embrace dialogue if Nigeria has got to be great. Think again if you think violence will get us there to the position you perfectly have a picturesque of ".
NIGERIA needs us to be law-abiding citizens of this nation and believe in our democracy.
Anyone canvassing for the use of coercion and violent protestation in Nigeria, is only succeeding in throwing Nigeria into a state of pugnacious belligerence, that is capable of dismantling the entire nation, thereby positioning us in a state of chaos, anarchy and doom.
Nigeria is not a military, totalitarian or fascist state that employs the use of coercion as a tool to communicate her grievances, Nigeria is driven by the principles of fundamentalism in human rights, obeisance to societal morals and etiquettes and a liberal nation where the citizens are at liberty to freely express their views in a more democratic and civil manner. Let no one be deceived that violence is the only panacea to the heinous, gross, impudent and hostile quandaries reverberating within the confinement of the nation called Nigeria. There is no nation without problems, however, the maturity and development of a nation is astutely determinant on the strategies she employs in dealing with her problems. You all are very much knowledgeable about the ruins and perils caused by the civil war. Violence is costly, sometimes too costly that a nation becomes too impecunious to afford it. Imagine the turmoil and devastating travails enveloping nations like Egypt, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Libya . These nations have paid and are still paying as a result of revolution, violence and war. Apart from what we see on television and read on the Internet and newspapers, a warred nation is not just prone to the destruction of lives and properties, it goes way beyond that to defying the secrecy and decency of the human entity through hellish acts of war like rape, genocides, violation of human rights, segregation and discrimination, poverty, drought, extreme health disorders and diseases, etc.
These and many more are the things that will befall Nigeria if we resolve to violence. Imagine being separated from your loved ones in a most inhumane manner? Imagine watching your loved ones brutally murdered or raped right before your eyes and you can't do anything about it because you have a gun pointed to your head? Imagine being denied the leisures, comforts and pleasures of life because you are gallivanting from one place to the other to save your life? Imagine sleeping outside, under trees, exposed to harsh weather conditions, prone to mosquito bites and demeaned to the level of eating weeds because the nation has been impoverished as a result of war. This is what violence, revolution and war causes, it is brutal, destructive, abysmal, animalistic and above all cataclysmic. We must shun violence and embrace dialogue if Nigeria has got to be great. Think again if you think violence will get us there to the position you perfectly have a picturesque of ".
NIGERIA needs us to be law-abiding citizens of this nation and believe in our democracy.
Kudos.
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