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Group advises Buhari to focus on challenges in North East

A group, the Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria (FEHN), has told the incoming administration to fashion out programmes, aimed at re-integrating restive youths and displaced people in the North East.
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A group, the Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria (FEHN), has told the incoming administration to fashion out programmes, aimed at re-integrating restive youths and displaced people in the North East.

The Chairman of the group, Mr Allen Onyema, told newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos that part of the programmes should be targeted at youths affected by the activities of Boko Haram.

Onyema said that the programme should be patterned after the amnesty programme put in place for youths in the Niger Delta.

He called on the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to carry all sections of the country along by designing programmes that would bring about engagement and re-integration of people affected by one challenge or the other.

The chairman said that the need to carry all sections of the country along was predicated on the fact that good governance could only be achieved in an atmosphere of peace and stability.

“The victory of Buhari is well deserved after many attempts. It is evidence of his commitment and pursuit of a cause he believes in.

“He has become a story in perseverance. But, because his victory at the polls is victory for all Nigerians he must carry everybody along in his administration.

“Buhari must as a matter of urgency move to address the challenges of insecurity facing people of the North East.

“The president-elect must handle the issue with sensitivity on account of Nigeria’s ethnic diversity,’’ he said.

According to him, there is urgent need for national healing which must begin in earnest by re-integrating people displaced by the challenge of insurgency, especially people who are deprived.

Onyema said that the president-elect should give people hope and offer a timeline for addressing the challenges of people in the region.

He urged Buhari not to witch-hunt anybody, adding that one of the ways of doing this was to put in place programmes that would take care of Nigeria’s ethnic diversity

3 Comments

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    Why is this group not based in Abuja? What are they doing in Lagos? Lagos is not the capital of Nigeria anymore for 24 years, if you are truly lobbying the FG on ethnic unity, then you should be in Abuja. Please move to Abuja.

  • Author’s gravatar

    What Buhari needs to do is to introduce free and compulsory prmary and secondary education in the North; abolition of the so-called almajiri system and the dependency system, and the introduction of a culture that will allow parents to take responsibility for the upbringing if their children; a system that will stem the dubious and harmful population increase in the North; the encouragement of girl-child education in the North; and the respect for Nigeria’s secularism and reduction of the influence of religion on Nigeria’s national life. That’s what he needs to do.

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    I will like to see the first Northern State to declare free and compulsory education for all its citizens. I will like to see the first community to build a primary or secondary school for its children, in the North. I will like to see an end to discrimination by some Northern States, against its own indigines, based on religion. I will like to see the first Northern moslem girl to marry a christian boy. I will like to see the first moslem man to take his christian wife back home in the North. These are the things we want to see, and not another indulgent programme that will encourage laziness and more militancy among the youths.