It is a fact that our beloved country Nigeria is blessed with both human and natural resources.The natural resources are both renewable and none renewable spread across the 36 states. A country that is blessed with these needs no assistance from any country to sustain itself when these resources are being managed properly, hence the atmosphere will be conducive for business purposes for both the citizens and foreign investors.
When we have in mind that globalization could be characterized in the aspect of greater integration of global markets for goods, services and capital across borders, then we must have the understanding that Xenophobic acts have no abode in any civil society.
The lives of all Africans matter in all African countries. Nigerians that are being killed by their fellow Africans don’t deserve to be killed and treated in that most inhuman way.
We are calling on the Authorities in South Africa to act quickly and effectively in protecting Nigerian citizens as well as other foreigners in their country, from the deadly Xenophobic attack by their citizens.
We are also calling on Nigerians not to take laws into their hands in attacking South African Companies and South African citizens in Nigeria .
At this hard moments that Nigeria is battling with insecurity across the country, we are calling on the Nigerian Government to handle the issue of the Shia Muslims and their detained leader Sheikh El-Zakzaky with care, shun all discrimination against them and give dialogue a chance as they have suffered the bitterness of discrimination and lost of lives while many of them are devoted Nigerians.
We advise the Nigerian Government to work hard towards providing jobs and business opportunities for all Nigerians and encourage inter -faith / Inter -ethnic dialogues for a better Nigeria as the success of Nigeria is in the unity of its people.
Signed
Comrade Godwin Ekoja
Middle Belt Region Conciliation Group, ICRP- Nigeria