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Nigeria the “African Dream”/2

Matchman News is publishing the second part of the article on the current situation of Nigeria written by Emanuele Gianmaria Fusi, President of Fondazione Novae Terrae (in the photo with The Minister of Solid Minerals Dr. Fayemi Kayode, the second from the right). Now I would like to point out that both President Buhari and […]

Matchman News is publishing the second part of the article on the current situation of Nigeria written by Emanuele Gianmaria Fusi, President of Fondazione Novae Terrae (in the photo with The Minister of Solid Minerals Dr. Fayemi Kayode, the second from the right). Now I would like to point out that both President Buhari and […]

Matchman News is publishing the second part of the article on the current situation of Nigeria written by Emanuele Gianmaria Fusi, President of Fondazione Novae Terrae (in the photo with The Minister of Solid Minerals Dr. Fayemi Kayode, the second from the right).

Now I would like to point out that both President Buhari and the Minister of Environment are Muslims. This only to say that putting into practice the Pope’s thinking is not a matter of religion, but rather is a matter of reason and common sense, as well as of love for their own country and for the planet we live in.

It’s clear that those who fought so bitterly a very serious malpractice that has afflicted the country for decades, inevitably makes a large number of powerful enemies and able to influence public opinion .

Therefore we invite you to check your facts before spreading or raising news that may no longer be that documented by international bodies as reliable and verifiable.

Whereas everything was done only in the past few months since the installation of the Government, this objective is a tremendous achievement.

Huge problems remain to be solved in Nigeria, but judging negatively the work of the new Government and of the President is irresponsible and he who claims the duty to inform the world should seriously reflect on certain issues.
The areas of the Central Middle Belt  represent a major issue to be considered, but the ac-tions taken so far and described above will certainly have a positive impact on the population of those areas.

Here I am obliged to point out that the facts cited in the report of the Open Doors World Watch Research “Appraising the Buhari administration: The Middle Belt and missteps on the promise of neutrality” concern the tensions occurred between nomadic herdsmen and settled farmers. These two categories have always been in conflict in the history of mankind all over the world for mainly economic reasons and divergent interests. Europe itself has for centuries been bloodied by these conflicts.

The facts are a serious problem that the government will have to solve, but it would be so even if the religions of the two conflicting groups were the same.

From the north, in progressive desertification, herdsmen move southward with their herds and go to invade the territories cultivated by settled farmers and from this derive tensions and consequent criminal episodes.
Why then attribute religious motives to these facts? Would it possibly be less dangerous if they were all Muslims or all Christians? Surely not!

The seriousness would remain unaltered and the need for substantial government intervention -which seems to have been already accepted into account – remains a priority. However, to pass the current President as an accomplice of religious genocide seems frankly ungenerous and completely out of place as well as false and, in a historical moment like this, even dangerous.
The facts of the Middle Belt are demonstrating the central importance of the environmental factor – in this case, linked to desertification – which inevitably takes on a political and social value. The common thread of an enduring development is the link between environment, re-sources, sharing of wealth, the fact that the Nigerian Government has decided to go and that is close to my heart also to the Holy Father.
A tree falling makes more noise than a whole forest growing, and I believe that the Nigerian forest is really growing.

The greatest wealth of Nigeria is its people and the desire that it has to change and be a part of the renewal of the continent. This feeling is evident everywhere. Now people know that the change is possible, albeit with great difficulty, those who have ideas and enthusiasm may find fertile ground in Nigeria and know that corruption and dishonesty are diseases on the mend, fought by the government and not an ineluctable reality.

In Nigeria, we are witnessing a kind of American dream in the Nigerian version that I would call “The African Dream”. There are economic realities born from nowhere, on the based solely on the ideas of young people and they are taking shape quickly. We are witnessing the return from abroad of young Nigerians that once their studies are over they choose to return to their country to contribute to its development instead of choosing the easy way out of a career abroad.
The economic realities that were developed in the past in various areas associated with oil have decided to believe in Nigeria and are now willing to invest heavily in new ideas instead of focusing their capital abroad.
I remember that Aliko Dangote, the Nigerian self-made man who became the richest man in Af-rica and the richest black man in the world, operating in various economic sectors of the country, rightly says that the only people who can substantially develop Africa are the Africans because nobody will do it for them.

The religious freedom of Nigeria doesn’t seem to me a real issue at all. You can easily see Christian Churches built a few meters from Mosques and Muslims and Christians peacefully interacting and co-operating without any problem, as in any other civilized country of the world, leaving their own convictions and creeds to their deepest part of the soul of each one, as it should be.

During my long journey in Nigeria, last June, I saw and visited tens of Christian Churches in areas very far away and isolated, something that would be impossible if the religious tensions were so exasperated as some “strange” reports describe.

At the airport of Abuja, the federal capital city, which is at the center of Nigeria, there is a Catholic Church and a Mosque situated side by side available for the traveler. Indeed, I know this does not exist at the Italian airports.

The general perception is of a culture that makes the freedom of Faith a cornerstone of the Nigerian society and that has never during my trip been doubted. The importance and the resources that the Government is currently giving to education, is another trump card that will make the difference in the future.
The Novae Terrae Foundation is evaluating the possible opening of a permanent branch in the country to monitor the benefits and changes that the new course of Nigerian history will bring to families and give an account of the true reality of Nigeria beyond the clichés.

In conclusion, I wish Nigeria and its Government the strength to continue on the path taken tenaciously which certainly is a fundamental turning point in the history of Nigeria. While to the various “scholars” of international conspiracy, which I hope are only misinformed and not biased for other reasons, I remember that “hands that help are holier than lips that pray”.

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