PeacePro Presents Blueprint For ‘National Healing’, Says Collective Apologies ‘Necessary’

The Foundation for Peace Professionals (PeacePro) cast people’s minds back to the nation’s long-ignored wounds on Saturday by unveiling a groundbreaking and controversial blueprint for national healing which demands a rare, honest confrontation with the country’s painful past.

In a statement issued by its Executive Director, Mr Abdulrazaq Hamzat which was made available to Team@orietactualmags.com on Saturday , PeacePro warned that Nigeria cannot continue to ‘patch over deep scars’ while expecting unity to magically emerge noting that ‘true reconciliation begins with truth, acknowledgment, and the courage to say, we are sorry’.

‘The PeacePro blueprint calls for a series of symbolic yet powerful apologies across regions, communities, institutions, ethnic blocs, and religious groups, a move that has already ignited intense national debate.

The proposal outlines a sweeping set of restorative gestures.

The Southeast should apologize to the Niger Delta for the political maneuvers that heightened tensions leading to the iconic 12-Day Revolution.

The Southeast should also apologize for the 1966 first military coup, an event that reshaped Nigeria’s political trajectory.

The North must apologize for the pogroms against the Igbo people, one of the most tragic and haunting chapters in Nigeria’s history.

The Federal Government should apologize to every Nigerian for decades of insecurity, corruption, economic hardship, and consistent governance failures.

The Federal Government should also apologize to the Southeast for the massive human and economic losses suffered during the Civil War.

Fulani leadership should apologize to victims of banditry and herders-related violence, which have devastated entire communities.

The three major ethnic groups, Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo, must apologize to the minority groups for decades of political and cultural marginalization.

Christians and Muslims should apologize to each other for mutual intolerance, while both faiths should also apologize to traditional religion worshipers for decades of discrimination and exclusion.

This is not blame, this is leadership’ the statement said.

Mr Hamzat also emphasized that the blueprint is not designed to provoke division, but rather to liberate Nigeria from decades of denial, silence, and unaddressed trauma adding that ‘an apology is not weakness. It is leadership. It is maturity. It is the first step toward healing’.

For Nigeria to truly move forward, every region and group must according to him interrogate its role in the nation’s troubled history.

‘No group is guiltless. No community is without pain. Every side contributed to where we are. Every side must contribute to where we’re going’ he said.

PeacePro’s blueprint also made a powerful appeal for national forgiveness, not as a dismissal of the past, but as a requirement for the future.

According to the organization, Nigeria stands today at a historic crossroads, one where truth, courage, and collective forgiveness may finally build the united and peaceful nation that generations have long wished for.

‘With this bold intervention, PeacePro has thrown down a challenge not just to government, but to every Nigerian, asking them to choose healing over hurt, and unity over division’ the statement added-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08035023079, 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you