{"id":23938,"date":"2020-02-10T20:18:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=23938"},"modified":"2020-02-10T20:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:18:35","slug":"shege-ka-fasa-and-our-clash-of-civilisations-by-yinka-odumakin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=23938","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shege Ka Fasa\u2019 and our clash of civilisations by YINKA ODUMAKIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Humans die. Countries die. The only difference is that while individuals can die suddenly, countries die gradually except that most inhabitants of a dying country don\u2019t put the symptoms together because they are bogged down with daily survival. It is only after the country is dead that they would be recalling the signs they saw.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The sudden deaths of individuals do necessitate autopsy sometimes. It reminds me of a doctor who specialised in that and said he loves his job because his patients are the most cooperative as they don\u2019t complain.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A lawyer, Mr Osvar Onwudiwe, shared the painful death of a friend with us a few days ago. The guy appeared healthy when he left the South-East for Lagos. As he arrived at the home of a friend he was visiting in Lagos, he asked the maid to get him drinking water. As the young girl left, his head rested on his chest and it was eternal bye. By the time an autopsy was carried out, his entire system was filled with sugar.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">But peradventure Nigeria dies, there won\u2019t be any need for autopsy as none was done when Yugoslavia died. American journalist, Brian Hall, took a tour of that country before it died and he wrote a book entitled \u201cThe Imposable Country: A Journey Through The Last Days of Yugoslavia\u201d. The country collapsed before that book got off the press.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The death of Nigeria, if it happened, would be caused by unresolved clash of civilisations, the\u00a0 title of the immortal work of of the late American political scientist, Samuel Huntington.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There were series of intellectual fallacies at the end of the cold war era with postulations such as democracy and human rights becoming dominant issues around the world. Francis Fukuyama\u00a0 wrote \u201cThe End of History and the Last Man\u201d which was a raving publication until his sober teacher, Samuel Huntington, came out with \u201cThe Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking Of World Order\u201d in which he postulated that the new world would be war-filled. But that it would not be between countries but of nationalities within countries. He said there would be cultural wars that would not flow from clash of classes or ideologies but flowing from people asking \u201cwho are we?\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Huntington has been proved right as the word \u201cgenocide\u201d has been heard more\u00a0 frequently around the world in the period after the Cold War than at any other time in history.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nigeria\u2019s clash of civilisations predates Huntington as it was the foundation upon which Lugard constructed an \u201cimpossible country.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Aside from the elite forming a consensus on how to steal, Nigeria has never been able to build consensus on any value. Even the motion for the country to become independent moved by the Action Group in 1953 and supported by NCNC but opposed by NPC led to killings\u00a0 in Kano, confirming Lugard\u2019s description of Nigeria\u00a0 as a country of enemy-tribes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">From 1953 till now, it has been \u201cno agreement today, no agreement tomorrow\u201d as the music impresario. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti put on vinyl.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The latest manifestation of the clash of civilisations is the response of some northern thugs to Operation Amotekun won by the defiance of the West and its allies for progress across Nigeria against the internal colonialists in Abuja.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The North did not disappoint as the Coalition of Northern Groups on Wednesday unveiled a security outfit code-named Operation \u2018Shege Ka Fasa.\u2019 which means \u201cI dare you\u201d, a day before Northern security summit.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We know the lumpen youth are not daring the bandits who are natives but the assertive will of the governors and people of Oduduwa land on Amotekun with the thinking that their Federal Government will now come in and ban all regional security outfits .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">But the intellect-challenged elements lack the initiative to know that there is a difference between a security network put up by state actors in the West and an initiative launched by thugs in the North.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And to show how low our compatriots can get, Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has been quiet on \u201cShege Ka Fasa\u201d. The Kaduna police say they are not aware of the outfit and all the northern irredentists, old and young, who were shooting their mouths on Amotekun are now resting in peace satisfied that their\u00a0 boys have done it.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Only the Sultan of Sokoto has denounced the outfit. The Islamic leader blamed the elite in the region who hoped to score cheap political points by creating the \u201cOperation Shege Ka Fasa.\u201d The Sultan delivered the rebuke as he spoke at a Northern Security Meeting in Kaduna on Thursday. He\u00a0 said: \u201cI saw it on the television and the media gave them attention.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cNow, the elders allowed these youths to go forward. So, the elite are our problems; the elders are our problems. If the elders don\u2019t take the lead, the youth will do whatever they like and think they are right. You have to caution these youths by giving them good leadership.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cNow, they have launched their own security outfit. I don\u2019t know what they call it, \u2018Shege Ka Fasa\u2019, meaning what?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cSo, I want to call on northern elders to caution them. Don\u2019t allow these youths to take over leadership from you.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cYou have to reach out to everybody no matter how low the person is. So, I think we need to take the bull by the horns and not allow the youth take over responsibility. I think we need to do that and much more.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Only those ignorant of \u2018taqqiya\u2019 would not understand the Sultan. The butterfly that is dancing on the surface of the water has some drummers underneath. I can bet my last kobo that all the boys promoting this \u201cinitiative\u201d cannot collectively buy one bus. We therefore have an idea of where the several buses and uniforms are coming from.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Just another signal that Nigeria\u00a0 as arranged cannot work. I can\u2019t imagine for the life of me that those who launched Hisbah to promote religious laws in a secular country, who have Lafiya Dole and whose land incubates Miyetti Allah and Boko Haram that have taken the peace of the entire country can have the audacity to be promoting this nonsense just because those under the afflictions of their kiths want to protect themselves.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As fairness consists in giving the devil its due, let me speak some words for these northern youths.They are not inconsiderate. They are acting within the limited civilisation available to them which cannot appreciate the rights of other nationalities outside their own narrow hegemonic command and control outlook. They are detained by their cultural limitations and lack of exposure to better conduct. No values of coexistence have been imbued in them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As a child of about 10, I watched my father building a house and telling the carpenters not to allow water from our roof to disturb the neighbours whenever it rains. He did not have to set up a class for me to know that life is not all about what I want. It had to address how my desires do not violate the rights of my neighbours.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Unfortunately, Nigeria has not been run in a way to make the best of it to impact on the rest. It has been the paradigm of dragging the best to the level of the rest and dregs. This is why federalism is the best structure for a country like ours as two cannot walk together except they agree.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A country that sets different benchmarks for \u201ccommon entrance\u201d and use geography as against competence to position people in public affairs would always be in this perpetual feud. And, in the final analysis, will die off!<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans die. Countries die. The only difference is that while individuals can die suddenly, countries die gradually except that most inhabitants of a dying country don\u2019t put the symptoms together because they are bogged down with daily survival. It is only after the country is dead that they would be recalling the signs they saw. 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