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Former presidential aspirate, Kingsley Moghalu, has compared Nigerians to crabs that can only move sideways or backwards but not forward.
This assertion from Kingsley Moghalu came after genocidal threats were made against the Igbos living in Lagos, leading to calls for their forced relocation.
Moghalu condemned the online campaign with the hashtag #IgboMustLeaveLagos as hate speech and called for strong action against such ethnic-cleansing propaganda.
The former CBN deputy governor highlighted how ethnic-identity supremacy has hindered Nigeria’s potential and has harmed the economy.
Drawing from his experience as a Political Affairs Officer at the UN Secretariat Headquarters during the Rwanda genocide, Moghalu emphasized the importance of taking decisive action to prevent similar atrocities.
“The online #IgboMustLeaveLagos campaign is hate, criminal speech. Our leaders need to take strong action against this kind of ethnic-cleansing propaganda similar to the Radio/TV Milles Collines demonisation of the Tutsi in Rwanda 30 years ago”, Kingsley Moghalu wrote on his official X page.
“As a Political Affairs Officer @UN Secretariat Headquarters in New York at the time, I helped in efforts to counter and stop the genocide, which sadly proved unsuccessful as a result of Great Power politics in the UN Security Council, and the genocide was ended only by the military victory achieved by the Rwanda Patriotic Army led by @PaulKagame. Thankfully, we later successfully prosecuted the architects of the genocide at the UN International Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, while the Rwandan authorities also successfully ran the local gacaca community trials and went on to rebuild their country to an enviable level.
“Not too long ago Nigerian state governors went to Rwanda to be taught the art of #GoodGovernance. Nigerian leaders taking strong action would demonstrate that such hate has no place in our country.
“Ethnic-identity supremacy has hobbled Nigeria’s potential as Africa’s most populous country, stymying both governance and the economy. We have become like crabs who can’t move forward, only sideways or backwards. I commend Lagos State Governor @jidesanwoolu for stepping out and calling for an end to this dangerous nonsense.”
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