'INSIDE JOS POLITICS' PART (4)

Peace, good life and egalitarian society is the virtue of a state, in absent of any, the political system remain in limbo as fascist scholars argue that ‘best thing that a mother can do to her child is to sent him to war” and that ‘the dream of a man is war and a women is fantasy’. Series of attacks and counter attacks, ethno religious crisis in Nigeria especially northern part is not a new scene of massacred of human soul. Chauvinism and chaos makes Nigerians lives in abject existences. Jos city is well know in instability and uncertainty due to occurrences and reoccurrences of crisis, is hardly for a celebration especially religious once to come and go with out any turmoil of bloody conflict among the dominant religious group.

Really thank ALLAH our Eid-Fitir, was celebrated joyfully without any turmoil within or beyond jos metropolitan, also for the first time in Diary to recommend the effort of Governor Jang for banning commercial motorcycles in jos and some local government area of plateau state, even though their was insufficient kekenape and other commercial car’s that would circulate the city, that makes citizen to track especially student of university of jos, saw hundred of them and  pity them, no enough vicheals that would transport them from main camp to p-site indeed most of our youth remained unemployed because ‘okada’ is the only means of self sustenance to them, some has wives and children’s. Now it has been ban. On the other way round death bodies was not been found here and there, because no ‘okada’ more less ‘okada men’ to enter ‘no go area’ of both parties to be kills, which often escalate crisis. Plateau state government need to empowered the youth to provide job opporturenities in other to make them busy because ‘an idle mind is a workshop of devil’. More so to removed the sentiment of enthnocentricism, because the state government has sideline jos city, no meaning project, no good road and no standard market. All project of Jang administration has cantered in his village and other related local government of his natives.

As part of tradition after Eid, Muslims will eat and rejoices with their family and friends, to also thank Allah for his infinite mercy and blesses. Then to visit relatives, clans and kins. I started my visitations from my neighbourhoods, visit almost six houses of different streets. Each street that I visited, saw children of 5-6 years old with ‘toy guns’ with bullet firing it on air while others are even demonstrating war. Hmm began to wonder what type of society are we? Or a new style of celebration?

Is the impact of crisis which occurs and reoccur for almost 13 years in jos and plateau state in general. It soils the children mentality and thinking, which is very bad of our children to grow with enmities and hatreds among inhabitants. Children’s that are know to be learners and students in both theological and western knowledge, to grow with sense of humanity and love of nation, but crisis has transmitted unlawful attitude which to them, the consider as a ‘play’.

Parent need to engage their children in extra lessons and home work, to also warn then against bad friends, to even know ‘who is a friend to your child’. We are neither in Hobbesian state nor fascist state. We need peace and pray for peace every day of our lives.