Opinion: We want peace in Share/Tsaragi

Date: 2012-09-12

We, the youths of Tsaragi/Share, have watched with alarm the efforts by certain elements in both our communities to create strife over needless border disputes between Share and Tsaragi. While it is gratifying to note that these efforts have failed as both communities continue to live in harmony, we feel compelled as concerned citizens and future leaders of our communities and indeed of our great state to re-emphasise our determination to live in peace and maintain good neighbourliness. Furthermore, we are embarrassed by the jeers of our compatriots in other neighbouring and distant communities who laugh at the perennial misunderstanding between our communities.

Our forefathers who deemed it fit for us to live together knew what they were doing. They, our forbearers, realised the value of good neighbourliness and chose to live together in peace and harmony, shunning rancour and bickering over land. Although we live in more modern times, the benefits of peaceful communal living which motivated them remain with us. All around the world, development has taken place only in communities that have pulled together their resources and will for collective good. Progress has only happened where there is peace; for it is only then that the market forces and the human resources necessary for economic development can merge to create well-being for our people. It is only a peaceful community that can attract investment or government patronage in terms of infrastructure.

For these historical and development reasons, we reject any attempt to ferment trouble between Share and Tsaragi. As brothers and sisters, we choose harmony and peaceful co-existence over communal strife. Going by the Yoruba proverb, it is the bones of youths that are used to stoke the embers of war. Therefore, we refuse to be used as cannon-fodder for other peoples' negative political objectives. Our lives and our futures are higher than the misguided personal aspirations of a few people from both our communities.

We know that our peoples are peace-loving and amiable. How else could we have lived together in peace and harmony all this while? Those who seek to stir the embers of discontent between Tsaragi and Share are faceless individuals from both communities who, ensconced in their distant residences in Abuja, Lagos and elsewhere, seek to manipulate us, the youths of Tsaragi and Share, into unnecessary strife. We reject these attempts to railroad us into communal strife and choose peace, dialogue and cooperation. Only these can secure and guarantee the jobs, infrastructure, and economic development that both Tsaragi and Share desperately need. In Tsaragi and Share, our vote is for peace.

Abdulmummin Isa and Ganiyu Ololade for Tsaragi-Share Youth Vanguard

 


Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kale Ayo     Razaq Atunwa     Saka Aleshinloye     Ilorin South     The Herald     CACOVID     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     Bello John Olanrewaju     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Lanre Olosunde     Justina Oha     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Bola Tinubu     Sa\'adu Gambari     Akorede     George Innih     Habeeb Saidu     Arandun     COEASU     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Kwara State University Of Education     Baba Issa     Abubakar B.M     Just Event Online     Student Learning Support Helpline     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Adesoye College     IEDPU     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Sabi     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Hijaab     Abdulkareem Alabi     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     COVID     Adeola Abraham     Sam Okaula     Toyin Abdullahi     Osuwa     Olusegun Adeniyi     HYPPADEC     Bolakale Ayo     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Baba Isale     Adedeji Onimago     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Amuda Aluko     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Laduba     Kayode Issa     Rebecca Bake     Muhammadu Buhari     Hussein Oloyede     Iqra Books     TESCOM     Share-Tsaragi     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     NFAI     Sherif Shagaya     AGILE Programme     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Razak Atunwa     Charcoal     Tosin Saraki     Bature Bello     Sarah Alade     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Moses Adekanye     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Pacify Labs     Bisi Oyeleke     Kwara Liberation Group     Ilorin Central Mosque     Minimum Wage     Pakata     Kwara State Governor     Sanitation Exercise     Amasa     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Rashidi Yekini     Ahmed Dankaya     Babaloja-General     Falokun-Oja     Okoolowo     Dan Masanin     Ayodele Shittu     Col. Adedipe     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Yakubu Danladi     Wahab Isa     FERMA     Kwara 2023     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Akanbi-Oke     Binta Abubakar-Mora     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Ronke Adeyemi     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Ndama Al-hassan     Oyawoye     Tayo Alao     LABTOP     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Mamatu Abdullahi     Ayinke Saka     Idris Amosa Saidu     Hijab     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Mahee Abdulkadir     Moses Rahman Popoola     Ileloke     Ayinde Oki     George Funsho Adebayo     Mike Omotosho     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Revenue Court     Gani Saadu     Modupe Oluwole     Yusuf Aiyedun     COVID     Mutawalle     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Shuaib Jawondo     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Kola Bukoye     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Kolawole Bashirat     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Amina El-Imam     Jaiz Bank     Ekweremadu     Adedipe     Baboko     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Kunle Okeowo     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     AbdulGafar Tosho     Jumoke Gafar     Tanke     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Galland Marcias     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi