was ill-advised. Coming at the advent of the New Year, and barely a week
after the gruesome Christmas Day attacks on worshippers, the policy has
forced many Nigerian citizens to perceive his leadership as one that is both
insensitive and possibly contemptuous of the mood of its people.'
Solidarity Message.
At first I wondered whether Boko Haram was actually working with the government to
prepare the way for the subsidy removal....... but then concluded that it was all simply
a terrible miscalculation. I also wondered whether external forces were trying to
create another Libyan situation to gain complete control of oil
resources- but then dismissed the thought.
The disinstegration of Somalia was fuelled by
IMF conditionalities such as this one. No one has been able to put the genie
back in the bottle for the last two decades. In the case of Somalia there was
one major religion, one main ethnic group and a 2-way split between
fundamentalists and moderate Muslims.
Here we may be dealing with a religious split fractured into
at least four major ethnicities and three potential secessions - fuelled by
a process of impoverishment across regions.
Not only is the Goodluck Jonathan regime insensitive but it is naive and suicidal.
Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali<http://www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali>
emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
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Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 3:50 PM
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Subject: OF HIGH IMPORTANCE: Statement of Solidarity with the Nigerian People
OF HIGH IMPORTANCE: Statement of Solidarity with the Nigerian People
Please find a statement of solidarity with the Nigerian People signed by Professor Chinua Achebe and 38 other Nigerian writers
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