By Amos Tauna
Former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Almustapha, has enjoined Nigerian youths to be more responsive in their thinking by ensuring their actions are meant for the overall development of the country.
He also enjoined them to see themselves as future leaders of the country by their deeds, actions and utterances that are meant to ensure the corporate existence of the country no matter what may be the situation.
He enjoined the youth to wear their thinking caps and ensure they take matured decisions that would be to the best interest of the entire country, pointing out that they should not allow anybody or group of people to use them for their selfish desire.
Speaking in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria on Monday in a meeting between Northern and Eastern leaders on ways to ensure peaceful coexistence following the hate speeches that had enveloped the two regions, Major Al-Mustapha said efforts should be ensured that the youth maintain and sustain what the founding fathers of Nigeria took their whole energy to build.
He called on the Kaduna State government to forgive the Northern Group leaders that have given the Igbos three months to return back to their states of origin, stressing that the two regions were making all necessary steps to restore peace in the entire country.
Al-Mustapha said that the development in Nigeria was causing serious tension that is not surprising, adding tha same was expected to be sponsored by countries that envy Nigeria.
He explained that in achieving their aims, they could even go as far as sponsoring stooges to leadership positions in the country, or backing rebels to stop countries with huge potentials from reaching their peak.
Al-Mustapha while cautioning the youth from the North from making statements that would further cause tension in the country, said that they might have resulted to that out of frustration as a result of comments coming from the IPOB leader, Nazi Nbamdi Kanu.
He praised the founder of MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazurike who was physically present at the meeting, for making the right decision of backing the existence of one indivisible Nigeria.
The founder of the Movement for the Actualization for Sovereign State of Biafra, Chief Raph Uwazurike, noted that crisis in Nigeria was being manipulated and caused by politicians. “We must not allow that. The country must continue to exist as one nation, but we must act to address issues of marginaluzation, ” he added.
He explained that when he started MASSOB in 1999, it was purely meant to be a peaceful platform through which issues of perceived marginaluzation of the Igbos in Nigeria could be brought to the fore and tackled.
He explained that even though it was right for any part of the country to seek for self determination, it was wrong to pursue same through violent means.
“I handed over Radio Biafra which l created to Nnamdi Kanu in London and was hoping it would serve the purpose for which it was created, but was disappointed that politicians hijacked him and it became something else,” he lamented.
