2011年4月21日星期四

Nigeria unrest "not spontaneous"

20 April 2011, last updated at 19: 10 GMT of the BBC's Abdullahi KAURA Abubakar in Kaduna, Nigeria: "Political violence has become a religious issue" Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the violence in the country, that his re-election followed "no spontaneous reaction".

Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes because of violence, the Red Cross says.

"I will not to accuse anyone but we believe that people behind it have to be", said Mr Jonathan CNN.

Survey of runner-up Muhammadu Buhari denies the events "sad, unfortunate and completely unjustified" incitement.

Read the main story of Muhammad Jameel Yushau BBC Hausa service

The winner of the election of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, and his main rival, Muhammadu Buhari, have called for quiet unrest following the post poll in the North. But the tensions can not be plastered.

Most of those behind the acts of violence were young men - unemployed uneducated and disadvantaged. Often they only remembered by politicians in elections if they sometimes not be paid, to do their bidding. They could send control, contradictions because it them provides the ability to prey and attack those who they perceive as their enemies.

Regardless of party and region 12 years of civilian Government have little changed brought the lives of Nigerians. But in the North is far behind in development, education and the availability of economic opportunities to the South. Good governance, not political platitudes of the elite, is what many say for the future is required.

Nigeria is divided by rivalry between the mainly Muslim north and mostly Christian South, also cultural, ethnic and linguistic differences - so much so that the Presidency alternately often has between people coming from each of the two halves of the country, in an attempt, to get the peace.

Unrest broke in the North, after Mr Jonathan, a southerner, as the winner of the presidential poll were. A civil rights group says the unrest has left more than 200 people dead, while hundreds of arrests have been made.

Gen Buhari has said the Nigerian Election Commission computer programmed, put at a disadvantage to his party in some parts of Nigeria.

But he urged his followers to refrain from attacking, say: "it's perpetrators wrong, if you allow your ranks and to such dastardly acts to commit places as the senseless destruction of worship."

"Needless to say, this Act is worse than the rigging of the elections."

Omar Marigar of the Red Cross told the BBC on Wednesday, which had tripled the number of displaced people in the last days - from 16,000 to 48,000, especially in the North.

But he said that in the Southern State Anambra, 8,400 people had sought refuge at the Onitsha military barracks, because they feared reprisal attacks against the northern lights.

He added: "that turn violent protests from political in ethno religious crisis. So, people might like to commit attacks in retaliation. "This is what we always fear."

"Free and fair"

Shehu Sani, head of the Congress of civil rights, said told AFP: "in the region, reports reach civil rights Congress, the death toll is over 200."

He added that more than 1,000 people in the city of Kaduna alone were arrested.

The BBC's Abdullahi KAURA Abubakar says, Kaduna city now quiet, with open markets and people shopping for food.

The security forces are the road patrol and be heard police helicopter flight can only temporarily.

The streets were littered with charred bodies after rioters burned churches, police stations and houses two days errors.

Mr Jonathan was winner of Saturday's presidential poll, explains the Electoral Commission said that he received 57% of the vote with 22.5 million votes to General Buhari about 12.2 million votes.

International observers have said the election was relatively free and fair.

Mr Jonathan, a Christian from oil of producing Niger Delta, the presidency appointed last year after the death of incumbent Umaru Yar ' Adua, a Northern Muslim which he had served as Vice President.

Would he staked his reputation on the election, repeated it promising, free and fair.

To win in the first round, a candidate needs not only the majority of the votes, but at least 25% of the vote in two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 States. This threshold in 31 States; reached Goodluck Jonathan, the PDP, Runner up Muhammadu Buhari of the CPC did so only in 16 States.

Nigeria's 160 million people are divided between many ethno-linguistic group and also religious role model. On the whole, the Hausa-Fulani are mainly Muslim people in the North. The Yorubas of Southwest are divided between Muslims and Christians, while the Igbos of the Southeast and neighbouring groups are mostly Christian or animist. The middle belt is home to hundreds of groups with others believe, and Jos frequent clashes between Hausa-speaking Muslims and Christians are members of the community be Rome.

Despite its extensive resources, Nigeria is one of the very unequal countries in the world, according to the UN. The poverty in the North is in stark contrast to the more developed South. While in the oil-rich South East, residents of Delta and Akwa Ibom complain all they produce the wealth flowing to the pipeline of Abuja and Lagos.

Southern residents tend to be better access to health care, like you by the greater inclusion of vaccines against polio, tuberculosis, tetanus, and diphtheria. Some Northern groups boycotted immunisation programmes in the past, say it a Western plot to make Muslim women infertile. This led to a repeat of polio, but the vaccinations have now resumed.

Standard of living for the next generation is seen as the key to improving women. For example, a newborn child is to survive if their mother is well trained far more likely. In Nigeria, we see a strong contrast between the mainly Muslim north and southern Christians and animists. In some Northern States, while in certain Igbo areas more than 90% read and write are read less than 5% of women and write.

Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer and the largest in the world, but most of the people live on less than $2 per day. The oil is in the Southeast, and some are militant groups a greater share of wealth comes from want to maintain under their feet. Attacks by militants on oil installations led to a sharp fall in Nigeria's output during the last ten years. But in the year 2010, an amnesty Government led thousands of fighters, lay down their arms.


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