Tope Fasua To Yoruba Leaders on Restructure...

Biko....Who elected them to speak for us?

I'm doing a research on this restructuring issue that if we were true to ourselves we will know it's a road to nowhere. We must not let the voices of deep thinkers be drowned by the baying crowd. My research shows that every village in Nigeria before colonialism was different from the rest and unique in its own way and that every village was therefore a nation. Also people married, loved, hated, killed, despised, warred with helped, caused problems for, sacked, enslaved, offered succor and settlement to themselves with no particular pattern until the while man came and even after he came.  There is no geographical tribal deliberations of any kind in Nigeria.

No one therefore has the right to hijack anyone's voice and be speaking for Yoruba Hausa or Igbo. Forming an association does not confer that right. At the end we can only key into our humanity. That is the only thing that unites us. Can we be fair and just to ourselves as much as possible? Can we have serious respect for the commonwealth? Can we treat each other as humans made of God? Can we see ourselves and our vulnerability in the comity of nations? Can we see that we haven't achieved anything and therefore come together? Can we stop being myopic? Can we stop behaving worse than is even acceptable to beasts of the wild when we pack what should make our brothers and sisters more comfortable and hide it away so that they may suffer? That is the restructuring we need.