Senate President David Mark yesterday lamented the state of Nigeria, saying the brotherhood we vow to respect and adore is no more, as we are no longer our brothers’ keepers.
He spoke on Thursday at a session in which Senators took stock of Nigeria @ 53.
He said:” We are today worried about our dear country. We are genuinely worried and genuinely concerned. This cuts across party. It has nothing to do with party at all. Because we are Nigerians who are interested in the development of our country. If you go back memory lane and you recall our old national anthem, “though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand.”
“The question to ask is: Do we stand in brotherhood today? Or we have completely changed. Are we our brothers’ keeper? Because if we are our brother’s keepers, we would not do some of the things that we do in this country. If we are our brother’s keepers then we would love our neighbors as we love ourselves. There is none of us here, nobody, no Nigerian; no human being that would hurt himself. But we do those things that hurt other Nigerians. Some on different scale, some on large scale and some on small scale.
“We here are all leaders. At every level we have Nigerians who are leaders. So, we must begin to look inwards and search our minds now so that we can make progress. We want a nation where truth and justice shall reign, again go back to our old national anthem, a nation where truth and justice shall reign. And once we have this as our cardinal point, I think every other thing shall follow”.