#EndBadGovernance: Embrace Dialogue Over Protest – BCS Urges Nigerians
BY UBON EKANEM, CALABAR – A religious organization, Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS) has tasked Nigerians to prioritize dialogue over protest as a way of strengthening the bond of unity and nationhood.
The body, which acknowledged the urgent need to address the biting hardship in the country, however cautioned individuals and groups against exploiting the current mood in the country to advance clandestine and selfish interests that are detrimental to Nigeria’s survival as a United nation.
Spokesperson of the BCS, Dr Amah Williams, who made the call in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, said in the face of current hardship, it is important for all well-meaning Nigerians to exercise restraint and shun anything that could throw the country into political turmoil.
He said attempts by some groups and individuals to misconstrue the people’s mood in this trying period and engage in promoting the idea of balkanising Nigeria would only add to the current sufferings with nothing positive coming out of such line of action.
Speaking at 66th anniversary of the Founder’s Day of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, popularly known as ‘Etonday’, Dr Williams said Nigeria’s unity is anchored on a spiritual foundation and as such no single individual or groups of persons can afford to toy with it
He said; “Anybody or groups of persons thinking that they can hide under the current protest going on in some parts of the country to devise evil and promote selfish plans at dividing the people, leading to the balkanisation of the country is simply a wishful thinking”.
According to him, Nigeria through divine intervention has crossed the Rubicon of division and our leaders should rather genuinely explore existing opportunities for peaceful and mutual co-existence of all the component parts of the country.l
He further pointed out that at times the leaders of the country behave as if they are not aware of the fact that globally the black race have come of age and such spiritual leap can be confirmed from the abundant natural resources nature has endowed them with.
The BCS spokesperson while commending President Tinubu for readapting the old national anthem, maintained that the composition and lyrics of the present anthem attracts a spiritual aura of mental development that the ordinary eye may not see or appreciate
The BCS is a religious movement founded in 1956 by Olumba Olumba in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria.
