Religious riots, bomb blast victims and the matter of compensation

The way out:- If only our community leaders, spiritual and temporal, particularly those in the north where the crisis is at its ‘peak’, are sensitive, responsive and accountable to their work! If developing all the areas or sectors of the economy would prove too difficult or would be somehow ‘inconvenient’ for the successive governments, then […]

The way out:- If only our community leaders, spiritual and temporal, particularly those in the north where the crisis is at its ‘peak’, are sensitive, responsive and accountable to their work! If developing all the areas or sectors of the economy would prove too difficult or would be somehow ‘inconvenient’ for the successive governments, then they should rather, as an alternative, focus instead or pay more attention to improving or developing only one or two areas or sectors of the economy. This may however, for eexample, be either in the health care, education, agriculture, road or aviation sectors, etc, as the case may be. This will definitely reduce the burden on the state and federal governments that already have much to contend with.

In this way, step by step, hunger and hardship which usually give rise to all these social disturbances, will greatly be reduced. Also, if only we, the citizens, the led, do our own part by responding and cooperating with our various governments on issues pertaining to governance and economy  by being patriotic and law-abiding. For example, we, as parents, endeavouring to send our kids and wards to school on time; paying our bills, rates and taxes regularly; keeping our environments and streets clean and tidy; respecting government’s and other people’s property; reporting all known criminals and criminal cases to the law-enforcement agencies, i.e. the police and law courts, and doing other things expected of us as good citizens. With this, the society would be better off for it, and our country would develop faster. Thus, our future generations would be safe and secure economically, politically and otherwise.

We should remember and abide by the adages that: ‘What is good for the goose is good for the gander’, and ‘What you hate others to do to you, do not do it to them.’ We should all try to abide by these principles and be good, loyal ambassadors of our dear country Nigeria, internally and externally.

It is only this way that we, as Christians and Muslims, can show that we are indeed true children and servants of God, whom we worship and fear, and not just pretenders or hypocrites. After death, we shall know those who are really ‘holy or righteous’, and those that are ‘sinners’.

May God help us all!

Nwando Obianyor, Malali, Kaduna.