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Nobody is safe until everybody is safe By Nigeria has confirmed the assassination of Chief Bola Ige, the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of Nigeria. It is interesting to see that the government of Nigeria is not going to let this dastardly action pass as it has done on other occasions when innocent Nigerian lives had been wasted. The Minister of Information Prof. Jerry Gana has started telling Nigerians the importance of giving extra-extra super security to the people at the top so that they will be protected. My Christmas message to Jerry Gana and his group is that they are making another grievous mistake.
If the government of General Obasanjo wants to help the situation, they should protect and care about the peasants of that country who have been going through hell. No amount of bandaging or heaping of cotton wool will help a decomposing sore. To help that sore, one should scrape every coating on it, look at the nature and the size of the sore and begin to treat it. Nigeria does not need to escort every minister with an armored car and a helicopter or assign a platoon of soldiers to every local government chairman when the basic security organ of government, the police force is allowed to rot away.
Here in America it will take not more than two minutes for a local police to answer to a call from one in distress. Nigeria does not even need to have a federal police force anymore. If Nigeria had cared about the things that should have been cared for or about, maybe Bola Ige and others like him would be alive today. If Nigeria had invested in training and equipping her police force instead of building a trillion dollar stadium from where they will steal all the money, someone should have been able to rush help to the security after they were overpowered. No one cares to do what they were elected to do. What our leaders would do was to begin to steal money for reelection one year into their first tenure and this is from Federal to Local Government level.
Now they are telling us the security guards of the minister were overpowered and expect us to clap for them. What happened to the Nigerian police? Nigeria will begin to mend when those that love their country and the people begin to take position in government. Nigeria is a country where you will be driving on the street and you would see human corpses allowed to rot. Those are children born to families and precious in their own little ways too and no one cares about such people. Nobody even records their death.
There is a saying that when an epidemic clears those on the borders it will travel inland. Let Nigerians find time to sit down and talk and see how to live together or part ways peacefully. To me every life is very very sacred and should be protected with the same degree of care. God bless Nigeria. Rev. Augustine
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