Let’s resolve national question now – UNILAG don

…Says lack of resolution has led to separatist movement, Insurgency,banditry and ritual killings
..enjoins Muslim to shun ethnicity,tribalism and other vices

University of Lagos, Professor Olalekan Tajudeen Yusuff, has said that the inability of successive governments in the country to resolve the National question has contributed to various crisis bedeviling the nation.

Speaking in a paper he presented at the 16th Founders Day of the Crescent University Abeokuta,he said that the problem of insurgency in the North east,banditry in the North West and kidnapping,ritual killings all over Southern regions could best be resolved by addressing the National question.

In his paper titled,”Islam and the promotion of Peace and Security in Nigeria”, he said the non resolution of the general indigenes issues,settler skirmishes compounded by the herdsmen/ farmer herders clashes, “are Symptomatic of the much talked National Question”.

Speaking further,the scholar identified gross inadequacies ravaging the nation coupled with abject poverty which is multiplying by the seconds as causes of social upheavals.

Said he,”Gross deficiency in infrastructures has exacerbated the incapability of enterpreneurs in the middle class to make something out of the untapped resources and opportunities in the economy”.

In the midst of this inadequacies,has made top Muslim elites to join the bandwagon, “of how much of the national cake you can corner to yourself and families”,adding that this should not be so.

He enjoined Muslims in position of authority in the country,” to be harbinger of hope to a belanquered nation where impunity seems to be the other of the day .

He lamented that,”Unfortunately, only very few Muslims have lived above board in this regard.Most elite moslems have joined the bandwagon of,” If you can’t beat them,why not join them”.

Professor Yusuff an expert in Insurance and Risk Management contended that in this regard, “Muslims should not be found promoting anarchy, chaos, and discord. To prevent insecurity and disunity, justice should be our watchword regardless of whose ox is gored”.

He also enjoined the faithfuls to shun Sectionalism , tribalism, ethnicism, and partisanship should be eschewed adding, “in our interactions with others. A Muslim is a world citizen whose nationality is universality. This was what our Prophet stood for pre-hijrah and post-hijrah and particularly in his farewell sermon.”

The scholar declared further that Nigeria is in dire need of “true Muslims that would, through the Islamic precepts, give voice to the voiceless and hope to the hopeless.”