The Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan, set up a 15-man panel on 1st Feb. 2010 to unravel the causes of the Jan 17, 2010 Jos crisis and profer solutions to them. The panel is to be co-chaired by Solomon Lar, a Christian, and Yahaya Kwande, a Muslim. The other members represent these two religions and they are made up of indigenous Plateau people and some Hausa-Fulani settlers.
I would like the VP to note the following interpretations of that panel as presently constituted.
1. The composition of the panel assumes that the crisis has a religions origin. Wrong. Yahaya Kwande, a Muslim' is happily married to a Christian woman. No problem with that. The series of Plateau crises are not religions but political in origin.
2. The Hausa-Fulani settlers in Plateau State are the problem. Get other settlers in Jos who are living peacefully and you will prove this. Oyo State, Kogi State, Nassarawa State Muslim settlers in Jos do not have a problem. Why not? Because the Hausa-Fulanis are Nigeria's trouble shooters.
3. Other settlers in Plateau State should have been included on the panel. The will proffer more honest solutions than a trouble shooter like Salleh Hassan. He has been championing the cause of the settler Hausa-Fulanis in Jos.
4. Yorubas, Igbos, Igalas, etc, are other settler tribes in Plateau State who also have problems with the Hausa-Fulanis. Why?
5. If the Hausa-Fulani incursionists are not curbed now, they will cause more trouble in Jos in the future. Watch our for their next move.
6. All the Hausa-Fulanis in Jos know their States and LGs of origin. Saleh Hassan, for example, is from Gombe State. He knows it and that's why he sent his son to go and complete his secondary school education there.
7. The panel, as constituted, cannot agree at the real problem in Jos. It will most likely issue two comflicting reports at he end of the day.
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