Don’t use force against agitators – Shehu Sani

Senator

The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District made this known on Sunday in Kano days after the agitators had a sit-at-home worldwide.

In a report by Punch, Sani urged the Federal Government to embrace dialogue in dealing with the agitators saying that the only solution was the entrenchment of socio-political and economic reforms in the country.

The senator further insisted that the Biafra agitation should be handled with utmost care.

He also said the agitation gathered momentum due to some fundamental issues and factors that had to do with the failure of the Federal Government to address some critical issues after the civil war.

“Although after the civil war, we created institutions to foster unity and create sense of belonging, we failed as a nation to entrench the spirit of oneness and togetherness in the minds of the people.

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“And that is the reason why a nation united by force is vulnerable and a nation united by justice is impregnable,” Sani said.

While expressing optimism that Nigeria would not disintegrate, Sani said the Federal Government should douse the Biafran agitation because the forces igniting the Biafran agitation “are a new generation of young men and women, who have not experienced war and have not suffered from the war and have not seen the consequences of wars.”