(http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/thumbnail.php?file=ojomaduake_580578360.jpg&size=article_medium) Ambassador Ojo Maduekwe
Former Foreign Affairs Minister, Ambassador Ojo Maduekwe, has said no amount of bombs and carnage by terrorists can destroy the human spirit in Nigeria to grow into a great nation.
Maduekwe spoke at Uturu, Abia state ,during the Media summit organized by the South East zone of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Gregory University at the insitution’s auditorium.
Maduekwe who was the chairman on the occasion said,’’ a terrorist attack on media is an attack on all of us , because the media represents our collective psyche and conscience ; the media represents our corporate effort , led by some professional s known as journalists , to keep the conversation going.
‘’Today’s terrorists wish to see the end of communities and even if, God forbid , they were to replace our communities with theirs , they will still proceed in the manner of self consuming ogre symbolized by the blaze to dubious glory of suicide bomber to destroy even what they have acquired.“
Maduekwe said the South East people as Nigerians who have voted with their feet more than any other group for national integration , provide the highest number of casualties when there is a national meltdown.
He added:‘’Being the central theatre of the horrors of the civil war, the South East has an above average existential sense of what it means to be Nigerian. The suicide bomber that is picking on media houses and churches constitute a crude and diabolical wake up call to reflect on this matter of being Nigerian.
“What are we ready to give up, individually and collectively to sustain this project? As national elite, are we providing a different narrative to the hellish alternative of those who are ready to die in order to enforce their own script when the rest of us naturally prefer to live?
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