(A call for ethnic sacrifice)
Reading an article by my Ghanian father, Dr. Samuel Korantang Pipim titled - Self Obsession, it all began to make sense to me, I mean the challenges of ethnicity and or tribalism presently confronting the Nigerian state.
Why are we so
obsessed with our ethnic groupings? It is worse than corruption, in
fact, that is the reason we are extremely corrupt as a people. For a
public servant to be obsessed with his ethnic group.
Great Britain just held their elections, and the issues weren't that of the tribal or ethnic groupings of the candidates.
So who has so bewitched us? Why are Nigerians this way as a people? You hear Nigerians say, "the man there is from my tribe..." or that "the man there is an Igboman".
When an official is elected or appointed into public office, that office immediately becomes an extension of his ethnic group, why are we that way?
Why must a public official's success or failings in office be attributed to his ethnic group? I have read certain online reports suggesting that the Igbos and in some others, the Yorubas and or the Hausa are the problems of Nigeria. Well, my only challenge is the zeal of such arguments which in all the reports suggests extreme ethnic or tribal obsession of the writers.
It was evident under the present Jonathan's regime, strategic design to empower the Ijaws specifically. The in-coming Buhari's regime will have to contend with the same issue, aids and appointeed that are obsessed with their Northern ancestry.
Like Dr. Pipim wrote, I think that what we need as a people is ethnic tolerance... ETHNIC SACRIFICE!
Watch out for part 2 titled ETHMIC SACRIFICE.
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Obuesi Phillips
2014 Dream Prize Winner
Great Britain just held their elections, and the issues weren't that of the tribal or ethnic groupings of the candidates.
So who has so bewitched us? Why are Nigerians this way as a people? You hear Nigerians say, "the man there is from my tribe..." or that "the man there is an Igboman".
When an official is elected or appointed into public office, that office immediately becomes an extension of his ethnic group, why are we that way?
Why must a public official's success or failings in office be attributed to his ethnic group? I have read certain online reports suggesting that the Igbos and in some others, the Yorubas and or the Hausa are the problems of Nigeria. Well, my only challenge is the zeal of such arguments which in all the reports suggests extreme ethnic or tribal obsession of the writers.
It was evident under the present Jonathan's regime, strategic design to empower the Ijaws specifically. The in-coming Buhari's regime will have to contend with the same issue, aids and appointeed that are obsessed with their Northern ancestry.
Like Dr. Pipim wrote, I think that what we need as a people is ethnic tolerance... ETHNIC SACRIFICE!
Watch out for part 2 titled ETHMIC SACRIFICE.
LIKE OUR PAGE SHARE OUR PAGE
Obuesi Phillips
2014 Dream Prize Winner
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