AREF SUPPORTS PRONACO's PNC.
AREF SUPPORTS PRONACO's PNC.
Nigeria's elder statesman and premier Peace Advocate, Ambassador Segun Olusola, mni, OFR, the Founder/Patron of the African Refugees Foundation (AREF), today declared the global humanitarian community's unalloyed support for the recently-inaugurated PRONACO-driven PEOPLES' NATIONAL CONFERENCE (PNC) in Nigeria, whilst reminding all stakeholders who are interested in a positively virile Nigeria that "AREF is pro-dialogue and mediation as a dynamic process of avoiding and resolving conflicts that could trigger off the creation of refugees or internally-displaced-persons anywhere in Africa".
Ambassador Olusola pointed out that even the recently-concluded government-initiated Political Reforms Conference was welcomed by AREF, and that "AREF made positive inputs to that process through its Public Affairs Adviser, Mr. Taiwo Allimi, who (doubling as AREF and Ogun State representative to the Confab) stated AREF's aversion to the Indigenes/Settlers dichotomy that bedevils our nation's communities today, and that is the remote and immediate cause of a majority of the recent bloody and destabilising conflicts and crises in Nigeria".
The respected diplomat and humanitarian reminded all Nigerian and world leaders that "Everybody must proactively ensure that Nigeria does not slide into a state of public acrimony, ethnic or religious conflict of uncontrollabe proportions, or any dislocations that could create millions of Nigerian refugees, because Africa alone could never absorb all the refugees that would most likely be created by a Nigeria at war today...Europe would be directly and direly affected by refugee-influx, and the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR)would probably collapse under the burden of this unprecedented outflow of human beings...greater than what even the world wars ever created from any one country!"
The AREF chieftain called for caution on the part of all players in the Nigerian Project, and reminded all that Nigeria is greater than everyone, whilst reiterating that "our very existence and sovereignty must be objectively re-analysed by all stakeholders, so as to determine a true future of the people as arrived at by the people, and the people primarily."
Finally, he advised that there be rapprochement of all opposing parties in the ongoing unique processes for positive change in Nigeria, and gave the reassurancve that "AREF will continue to open up and maximise all possible avenues for mediation and reconciliation between groups with divergent positions within PRONACO and the greater Nigerian polity, with the ultimate goal being the common good of all Nigerians and stakeholders in a future great African nation."
AREF Public Affairs Division.
October 5, 2005.
Nigeria's elder statesman and premier Peace Advocate, Ambassador Segun Olusola, mni, OFR, the Founder/Patron of the African Refugees Foundation (AREF), today declared the global humanitarian community's unalloyed support for the recently-inaugurated PRONACO-driven PEOPLES' NATIONAL CONFERENCE (PNC) in Nigeria, whilst reminding all stakeholders who are interested in a positively virile Nigeria that "AREF is pro-dialogue and mediation as a dynamic process of avoiding and resolving conflicts that could trigger off the creation of refugees or internally-displaced-persons anywhere in Africa".
Ambassador Olusola pointed out that even the recently-concluded government-initiated Political Reforms Conference was welcomed by AREF, and that "AREF made positive inputs to that process through its Public Affairs Adviser, Mr. Taiwo Allimi, who (doubling as AREF and Ogun State representative to the Confab) stated AREF's aversion to the Indigenes/Settlers dichotomy that bedevils our nation's communities today, and that is the remote and immediate cause of a majority of the recent bloody and destabilising conflicts and crises in Nigeria".
The respected diplomat and humanitarian reminded all Nigerian and world leaders that "Everybody must proactively ensure that Nigeria does not slide into a state of public acrimony, ethnic or religious conflict of uncontrollabe proportions, or any dislocations that could create millions of Nigerian refugees, because Africa alone could never absorb all the refugees that would most likely be created by a Nigeria at war today...Europe would be directly and direly affected by refugee-influx, and the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR)would probably collapse under the burden of this unprecedented outflow of human beings...greater than what even the world wars ever created from any one country!"
The AREF chieftain called for caution on the part of all players in the Nigerian Project, and reminded all that Nigeria is greater than everyone, whilst reiterating that "our very existence and sovereignty must be objectively re-analysed by all stakeholders, so as to determine a true future of the people as arrived at by the people, and the people primarily."
Finally, he advised that there be rapprochement of all opposing parties in the ongoing unique processes for positive change in Nigeria, and gave the reassurancve that "AREF will continue to open up and maximise all possible avenues for mediation and reconciliation between groups with divergent positions within PRONACO and the greater Nigerian polity, with the ultimate goal being the common good of all Nigerians and stakeholders in a future great African nation."
AREF Public Affairs Division.
October 5, 2005.
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