The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church,
Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that the marginalization of Igbo and other
minority ethnic groups in the country must stop.
Bakare said this over the weekend in Lagos, in commemoration
of the June 12 Democracy Day.
According to the cleric, Nigeria has a chance at returning
to national ideals through reconciliation, reconstitution and reconstruction.
He said the country must address other historical
grievances, including, “the lingering memories of inhumane treatment, economic
deprivation, marginalisation and non-inclusion of the Igbos that have festered
since the end of the civil war.”
He said that issues that have led to calls for secession and
self-determination by different groups in the South West and South East and the
bitterness and vengeance among some Fulanis and their host communities must be
addressed by the government.
The cleric said that the discontent in the Niger-Delta
region as a result of continued environmental degradation and the history of
bloodshed such as the killing of advocates like Ken Saro-Wiwa.
He said attention must also be paid to the lingering feeling
of exclusion from the governance by women and Nigerian youths.
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