DIALOGUE! The only feasible way forward.

It's been more than 3 months I wrote my last piece pouring out my heart on issues bothering my country Nigeria. Never the less my silence does not connote absolute blindness to the issues at hand. The Niger delta avengers vs the stiff President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I asked someone a question, is anything working in Nigeria? Mr president elect should please come off his high horse and call for a round table meeting with the so called Avengers before they end up blowing every single pipeline in the Niger delta region hence bringing the oil dependent nation to its kneels. In economics, we are meant to understand that different economies adopt different policies with modifications to cultural and social beliefs, what am I saying? America may use brute force on terrorist and get the desired results but that doesn't mean Nigeria should also adopt such measure in dealing with her problems. My take, as an oil dependent nation with no economic vision I suggest that the Federal government should quickly call for a round table discussion in order to stop the recent pipeline and oil facility vandalism for the good of the nation at large, hence we adopt the commando approach (which should have been the right way but is not due to our political settings) and watch everything crumble before our very eyes. The way forward, Dialogue remains the only feasible solution in curbing the menace of the avengers due to the political settings of our nation Nigeria, any other approach adopted would have a multiplier effect of doom, agony and loss of lives. The Nigerian Army cannot defeat this so called Avengers in their Creek, why waste further resources and lives when you know as a Nation we haven't gotten to that level of silencing insurgents with brute force. In conclusion, I'm not in support of always using dialogue as a weapon but are we ready to lose it all before we realise the fact?

Odoro Aaron
BS.c Mathematics and Economics.
Project Management Consultant.