But we also recognise that this inheritance is not something we should snuff the life out of in our time and that is why we came together to address the issues of agitations, separatist manoeuvres, inter-ethnic animus and the weakening of the national spirit of togetherness. It has become abundantly clear that most people are donning their ethnic garbs and coming only at the regional and ethnic levels, at the base of what I call a troubling incestuous political and cultural embrace that does the nation state no good.