Nigeria: FG Begs Niger Deltans
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Vanguard (Lagos)
25 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Chinyere Amalu
The Federal Government has appealed to the people of the Niger Delta region to give them chance to address all the injustices they have been suffering for years.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe who made this call yesterday in Abuja, narrating ordeals which has befallen the Sudanese as a result of rebels attack in the region, said that government is doing everything possible to address the issue, but should be given a chance.
According to him, before the International Criminal Court (ICC) or the Second World War, it could have been easy for govt to hide under the crook of sovereignty and suppress their people.
"Government particularly in African continent dealing with the issue of facility of the state would have to come up with a level of discipline that is higher than the average in history.
"That means finding a way of engaging forces that are grieved and try all the peaceful options to engage them. They need to listen to people who are grieved, the community that has a compliant.
"That is why in case of Nigeria our president has gone out of his way to be a listening president specially on the issue of Niger Delta and everything is being done even taking risk of looking weak.
"Everything is being done to give peace a chance. So we don't go in the way of Darfur in Nigeria, so that government does not feel compelled in excising its traditional responsibility to maintain law and other.
"So that government does not feel compelled to use a level of force that is going to be uncomfortable both for the government and the communities involved.
"We have a responsibility both as government and donors to maximise the opportunity for conflict resolutions to ensure greater accountability on all side to ensure that funds that are made for development are actually use for it and we hope that the Niger Delta will give this government an opportunity to correct injustice and allow people who have come to develop the region to provide that very infrastructure lacking for so many years.
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"If you are going to be kidnapped, if you want to kill, there has to be development and in the right place too. I think that there are some lessons we need to learn from the Darfur crisis. Government themselves all over Africa will have to find a way of dealing with rebels with a human face".
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