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Olawepo-Hashim warns against ethnic profiling, suggests peace remedies

Mr Olawepo-Hashim says Nigeria, must move forward together in peace and harmony.

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February 21, 2021
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The presidential candidate of the People’s Trust (PT) in the 2019 , Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has urged Nigerians to tone down divisive actions and speeches for the collective survival of the country.
Reacting to rising ethinc tension in the land, the politician and businessman warned that pitching one ethnic group against the other and pushing for attacks and reprisal attacks are ill wind that can only assure mutual destruction.

In a statement made available to journalists weekend, Mr Olawepo-Hashim, who expressed deep anxiety over the development, said agelong farmers-herders’ conflict exacerbated by other security challenges must never be a justification for ethnic stereotyping capable of provoking ethnic pogroms.

” All patriotic Nigerians should be worried. I am worried. We all have roles to play, community leaders and social organizations must tone down divisive rhetoric,” he said.

“Now is the time to motivate and encourage various security agencies to step up their games. Now is the time for government leaders to act as statesmen. We must unite to save the nation”, Olawepo-hashim said.

According to the business mogul, “public officers at all levels must avoid statements and actions that show support for any party to the conflict as it has tendency to undermine national cohesion and security.

“On clashes between herders and farmers all over Nigeria, it is well agreed by all reasonable citizens and leaders that a pastoral practice that ruins the legitimate businesses of others, must immediately give way to a more acceptable and modern arrangement. ”

“We need a transition to a system that accommodates the aspirations of poor farmers and herders who have long been neglected by successive governments. This is the most urgent task of public policy at both State and Federal levels.

“Perhaps it is time again to renew our earlier call for devolution of power to the States in policing and other critical areas, in order to lessen the burden of the Federal Government in policing,” he said.

He reiterated that states and local policing may help reduce tension as security questions requiring prompt attention would be taken at state levels before they fester into broader national crisis, providing incentives for diver’s centrifugal forces to jump in.

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Mr Olawepo-Hashim had in a recent interview admonished Nigerians to agree on things that are agreeable and continue to discuss things that are not clear but may become clearer in the future.

Nigeria, he said, must move forward together in peace and harmony.

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While observing that nation building will not be completed in one day, the business mogul expressed optimism that there will still be life after 2023 and Nigeria will survive .

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Other issues could be looked into after 2023 elections by the grace of God, he said.

The businessman turned politician had noted that from the ongoing public debate in the country, it was obvious that consensus has been built around issues such as the desirability of state police to deal with insecurity, devolution of powers to states to control resources in their inland basins to pay taxes to the centre.

He highlighted some of the areas where there exist clear national consensus to include creation of state and local government police, side by side with the Federal Police to make policing more efficient and to bolster national security, among other issues.

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