BY SOLOMON AYADO and AHURAKA ISAH,
The Senate yesterday directed the federal
government to urgently adopt and send to the
National Assembly the report of the 2014 National
Conference organized by the former President
Goodluck Jonathan administration.
The directive of the Senate is coming as a necessary
measure to evolve solutions to tackle the
escalating ethnic agitations in some parts of the
country which is threatening the peace and unity of
the nation.
The lawmakers said the greatest challenge facing
Nigeria is the threat to national unity, as centrifugal
forces, ethnicity and religious intolerance have
enveloped national consciousness.
It was resolved that senators should quickly
intensify their representative role and embark on
sensitization campaign in their various
constituencies to highlight the importance of
harmonious and peaceful coexistence among
Nigerians.
LEADERSHIP recalls that Jonathan had set up a
confab committee to discuss issues that concerns
Nigeria with the purpose of finding lasting solutions
to them and to maintain the country’s indivisibility.
The report was forwarded on Wednesday, May 27,
2014 for consideration and necessary legislative
actions by the Senate, but it was stepped down.
Yesterday, the Senate Leader, Ahmad Ibrahim
Lawan (Yobe North) moved a motion on the urgent
need to proffer lasting solutions to ensure unity
and harmony in the country and was well
supported by all the lawmakers.
Tagged “ The Need for National Unity and Peaceful
Coexistence in Nigeria” the motion seek to convey
commitment of all Nigerians to live together in
unity and harmony as one indivisible and
indissoluble sovereign nation.
Leading the debate, Lawan noted that “since
Independence, national integration has been the
priority of government in Nigeria which saw the
establishment of the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC), the Unity School System, the Federal
Character Principles and many other affirmative
policies intended to achieve national integration
and peaceful coexistence.”
Lawan stated that some citizens rather than work
for integration into
a cohesive nation with a common sense of national
identity, are busy preaching primordial affiliation,
and clamouring for ethically based and regionally
supported threat to one united Nigeria in various
parts of the country.
“The amalgamation of the Southern and Northern
Protectorates in 1914 was not a mistake, but a
design by the Almighty God as a nation of brothers
and sisters united in common destiny,” he stated.
Senator Barnabas Gemade (Benue North East) said
to properly address the challenges facing national
unity, there must be upholding of fairness, justice
and the rule of law.
Senator Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central) said the
motion was necessary explaining that the
recommendations of the National confab of 2014
addressed most of the national challenges
enhancing disunity of Nigeria and urged that it
should be adopted.


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I ask liars again, who are the unity beggars now

After that what next? Nothing will still happen