Nigeria’s Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has said that we probably would not be experiencing banditry today if Nigeria had not changed its national anthem in 1978.
Gatekeepers News reports that Akpabio said this while visiting the Nigerian Institute of Legislative and Democratic Studies.
Akpabio also stated that asides the bill for the student loans , the bill of reverting the national anthem was of importance to the 10th Assembly.
He said: “The bill that was sent to us by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on student loan and scholarship programme to enable Nigerian vulnerable students the privilegde to obtain higher education and as i speak to you now, over 30,000 Nigerian students have been selected to benefit from that scheme.
“The other one of social impact is reverting to our old national anthem. A lot of people are not aware that there was a panel set up made up of Nigerians to receive … from all over the world in 1959. So when people are saying we are bringing you colonial anthem, please look into the history of the ‘Nigeria, We Hail Thee.’
“If we kept to that national anthem, we probably would not have banditry today in Nigeria, because if you take your neighbour as your brother, you would not want to kill your brother.”
