As we talk about the issue of unity in the country, a Fulani chief, Alhaji Gidado Ibrahim, the Ardo Fulani of Suleja, has called for inter-tribal marriages among youth corps members to foster unity among Nigerians. Ibrahim made the call in an interview when he visited the NYSC 2012 batch C corps members posted to Abuja at the FCT Orientation Camp, Kubwa.
Ibrahim said inter-tribal marriages among corps members’ would bridge barriers that existed between the various Nigerian societies. According to him, the marriages must be encouraged to bring people from different sections of the country together without recourse to thinking that something will happen to the spouses in a particular section of the country.
In his words, “My first child married a Yoruba lady, they are living peacefully in Sokoto with three children and they met during their NYSC primary assignment in Oyo State in 2003… My in-laws in the South never think of their child being killed or molested during any civil strife because they know that she is safe here,’’ he said.
The Fulani chief also called for the overhaul of the new NYSC policy of posting corps members to only four sectors: health, education, agriculture and infrastructure. He said: “I pity the state NYSC offices. Like in Abuja, how many agricultural outfits do we have that can contain at least 1,000 corps members that were to be posted to agric sector for their primary assignment.’’
Source: NAN
