Us Trip Report
NETWORKING FOR JUSTICE: USA TRIP REPORT
BY
DALHATU YOLA
---------- You think solutions to the conflicts and crises ravaging Northern Nigeria could be not be found from within our shores or sub region but the United States?
---------- Sure. We are merely going to interface with scholars and nationalities of countries with experience in rigmaroles of pluralist existence to appropriately analyse, understand and afterwards advocate strategic policy inputs and best practice approach for practical interventions. Like you frequently gallivant all across the globe retrieving stolen artifacts, updating UNESCO’s Nigerian heritage sites and generating ideas about how to raise the standards of our museums to world class quality.
The decision by Dr. Bashir Kurfi, Executive Director of the Network for Justice, a human rights based civil society organization to sponsor me along with six others to a conference on Northern Nigerian conflicts in the United States precipitated discussions above between me and Yusuf Abdallah, a one- time journalist colleague at The Triumph stables, now Director General at National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM).
Yusuf Abdallah obviously does not keep tally on the Network for Justice. He would have known that it was formed by individuals and groups sharing the common belief that political instability, which has been the bane of Nigeria since independence, is directly related to the level of oppression and injustice in the society. Flagrant disregard and violation of the rights and aspirations of the citizenry made these like-minded people and organizations to become committed to reversing this unfortunate trend. Since 1994, they have constituted this formidable Network that has assiduously been on the vanguard for entrenching democracy, good governance and social justice. Its track record of mediating in raging conflicts and human rights abuses in Northern Nigeria, the ethnic cleansing pograms in Plateau state and Southern Kaduna
BY
DALHATU YOLA
---------- You think solutions to the conflicts and crises ravaging Northern Nigeria could be not be found from within our shores or sub region but the United States?
---------- Sure. We are merely going to interface with scholars and nationalities of countries with experience in rigmaroles of pluralist existence to appropriately analyse, understand and afterwards advocate strategic policy inputs and best practice approach for practical interventions. Like you frequently gallivant all across the globe retrieving stolen artifacts, updating UNESCO’s Nigerian heritage sites and generating ideas about how to raise the standards of our museums to world class quality.
The decision by Dr. Bashir Kurfi, Executive Director of the Network for Justice, a human rights based civil society organization to sponsor me along with six others to a conference on Northern Nigerian conflicts in the United States precipitated discussions above between me and Yusuf Abdallah, a one- time journalist colleague at The Triumph stables, now Director General at National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM).
Yusuf Abdallah obviously does not keep tally on the Network for Justice. He would have known that it was formed by individuals and groups sharing the common belief that political instability, which has been the bane of Nigeria since independence, is directly related to the level of oppression and injustice in the society. Flagrant disregard and violation of the rights and aspirations of the citizenry made these like-minded people and organizations to become committed to reversing this unfortunate trend. Since 1994, they have constituted this formidable Network that has assiduously been on the vanguard for entrenching democracy, good governance and social justice. Its track record of mediating in raging conflicts and human rights abuses in Northern Nigeria, the ethnic cleansing pograms in Plateau state and Southern Kaduna