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Fashola Urges Nigerians To Foster Peace, Understanding

Mar 9, 2010 - Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Wednesday urged all Nigerians to continue to foster peace and understanding while shunning anything that tend to suggest fragmentation.

According to Governor Fashola who spoke in an interview with Aviation Correspondents at the Presidential Lounge of the Local Wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja after returning from a meeting of the National Economic Council in Abuja, security is a national issue and not an individual component of the federation.

Responding to a question on the recent Jos crisis and what is being done to prevent any backlash, the Governor declared: “Whatever may have been the cause of all of this, we should sit down and put heads together instead of thinking of reprisal attacks. We have nowhere to run to except this country and all of us must resolve to live together as one”.

“If there are any persons promoting this kind of thing, we must find out why they are doing this and put an end to it so that innocent people, brothers and sisters would stop going at each other in this very unacceptable manner”, Governor Fashola emphasized.

Governor Fashola said the media has a critical role to play as it owes a duty to use its critical asset and influence to build peace and understanding among Nigerians.

In his words: “We are brothers and sisters, we are bound together by a common destiny, we have inter-married, we prayed together, we worship together, we celebrate together. those are the things that bind us, our common humanity, we share water together, we spend the same money. Talks that suggest any fragmentation should be discouraged”.