On The Public Hullabaloo About Northeast Development Commission To Accommodate Kano And Plateau States

By: Adamkolo Mohammed Ibrahim Jinjiri

Good neighbouliness demands sharing in gains and pains. This is so in the scriptures of the religions we profess and the cultures of our people. Now that NASS has struck the gabble, the pen has scribbled, the ink has dried and the perchment has been rolled up, no need to wail over spilt milk lest our neighbours labelled us selfish and ungrateful.

Lest we so quickly forget, when bullets rained over our roofs, lives taken with rifle muzzle and suicide bombing and settlements annihilated with rocket heads, neither north-easterners knew that borders exist between them and north-westerners nor north-centralists ever believed that insurgence wasn't boundary-blind.

Therefore, when peace creeps back to the society, when people's conscience returns, when the once shattered society springs back and when rays of hope and prosperity are beamed at it, acrimony, animosity and enmity between the neighbours should be forgiven and forgotten as well as the rays of prosperity shared equitably. This is so, because it's assumed that lessons have been learned and differences have been regarded as richness in diversity rather than rift in diversity.

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