Lagos based formidable human right organization, Black Youth Vanguard (BYV), has warned an ethnic nationality living in Lagos State to desist from threatening war on daily basis with the erroneous impression that, “they have monopoly of violence and that they have exclusive expertise in rascality.”
Convener of the group, Comrade JamesAdeyemi, who cautioned them in a statement he signed and distributed to the media in Lagos weekend asserted that, “war is never a tea party anywhere around the globe;” adding that, “in the advent of war, even the world super powers don’t find it funny because war is never a Disco Night Party.”
The group, through the press release was directly reacting to an article purportedly written by one Steve Osuji entitled: “Persecution of Lagos Igbo-Will bring out the beast in the Igbo.”
According to the group, the writer of the article perhaps was not born or was a toddler during the 30-month civil war that destroyed lives and wantonly destroyed property that worth several trillion of naira, saying, “were they happen to be around and knew right hand from the left, when anybody is beating drum of war, they would never be close to the place!”
The group, while asserting that “the gentility of a tiger, is never a sign of cowardice,” educated the writer of the threatening missive that, the best way to reciprocate the accommodating posture and hospitality of the Yoruba people is to be humble, apply wisdom, identify your bound and stay within the boundary, emphasising that, “any attempt at calling them a bunch of fools would be resisted with the last drop of blood in their bodies because they always prefer death to undue humiliation.”
In the situation of war, the pandemonium that would ensue (God forbid) would not allow anybody to know the next action to take and at the end of the day, the true owners of the land would claim their land completely and the recalcitrant settlers would scamper away to start again admonishing that, “Nigeria is spacious enough to accommodate all of us and our businesses and so everybody should behave to enjoy together the serenity that the Almighty God endows the country with.”
Concluding, the group appealed to the indigenes to ignore the provocation and go about their daily endeavours with our God-given patience, wisdom, perseverance and be God-fearing, remembering that, “humanity emanated from one father and one mother.”
