Since the cold blooded killing of
four students of the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria by some members of a community
called Aluu, close to the University’s campus. I want to write cause writing sort of help me get things off my chest, but simply I don’t
know where to start or what to say,…… reading the whole turn out of events with the 1st week in October left
me gutted.
Only last Tuesday 2nd of October,
I was watching the Aljazera news and surprisingly was seeing breaking news
about Nigeria. A significant number of
students at a Polytechnic in Mubi, Adamawa state were shot and killed in a
Night raid by what’s still being described as “unknown gun” men. I had only
just struggled to not think about how sad, unfortunate and outrightly shocking this
incident was. Only to check timelines on twitter on Friday the 5th of October and saw the story
of four students killed very gruesomely because it’s alleged they stole phone
and laptops.
Most distressing is the fact that the
killing of these four University of Port Harcourth students was done in day
light, in the full view of members of that community and people took pictures
and even made video of this most horrendous of act. The killers or should I say executioners of
these young men were brutal, merciless, and desperately wicked. I wonder how humans can be so inhuman,
just so that I don’t become despondent by these sad happenings; I have stopped
trying to figure this out because it’s just as the good book puts it “the heart of man is desperately wicked “
This community claimed they have been
ravaged by incidents of robbery attacks, and so justifiably some of them so mercilessly killed four young men under accusation of a crime. These people
made themselves the police, judge, jury and executioners, with no one or
nothing to stand in the defense of those four young men.
If not for this sad and unfortunate
event, like most people I would probably not have heard of that community
called Aluu, and certainly not heard of these four young men. Am not being apologetic because I don’t know
the entire story and hopefully it will keep unfolding long after this write up, however this depressing events should leave all sane people
in Nigeria, Rivers state and every community to ask the question, if the people who so freely killed these students
young boys in Aluu and the students in Mubi polytechnic could do what they did
for whatever reasons, what will stop them from doing it again and again ?
This
incident also hurls a big question to the Government, and the peoples of Nigeria
how civilized, humane, and literate are we as a people living in the 21st
century?.
The picture and most sadly the video
is being posted all over the internet, personally I have don’t see why anyone
would want to watch the video of another human, killed some gruesomely. I have
gone online to websites, forums and even on youtube to urge people not to watch
this video and for poster of such video to take them down. Some people have
asked my why? My question back has been why not? What
purpose will watching that video serve you as a person? it’s simply an evidence for the law agencies to
use in bring the men or women within that community who took laws into their own
hands to also face the law. It’s not what any sane individual should watch. So much for bad news travelling fast, especially bad news in Nigeria. typical with western media, this story made news on CNN
Police arrest 13 in videotaped killings in Nigeria - CNN.com
These murdered boys all have friends and
family members how much more can they take? Not only knowing that your loved
one was so gruesomely killed by a mob, but its available for people to watch online,
that’s way too much for anyone to take I think.
I have kept the message below on my
facebook profile all day.
Did not, will not and cannot watch the video of
the savage killing of those 4 Uniport students in Aluu,the few pictures I saw
only has left me gutted since friday. For the sake of the families and friends
of these young men, can the people posting pictures and the video on youtube
and other places online take them down....
And sent out messages via blackberry messenger
asking folks to urge posters of those video to take them down, and sent twits
via twitter, to @TouchPH and
with folks like @Gidi_Traffic re-tweeting the message…
Put yourself in d place of a brother ,sister or
parents of these 4young men killed in Aluu. Pls!!! posters bring down that
video.
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