HELP! ‘ATTEMPTED MURDERS’… Nathaniel Amroboraro, 200 Level, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. nathdactivist2050@gmail, +2348163205216 Do not bother reading beyond, if you have not, and would not make up your mind to offer some help to persons who have been ‘sentenced to death’ via ‘societal genocide’ because they committed the offence of being ‘Nigerians’. If we are to go by Chapter 4, Section 33, of the Nigerian Constitution, 1999, which states: “Every person has a right to life, and no one shall be deprived intentionally of his life, save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been found guilty in Nigeria”, then it is necessary that this government be charged as appropriate, because what they have done, is absolutely beyond ‘murder’. It is now ‘murders’. Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, embarked on strike since October 4, 2013. The National Assembly decided to come in, in May 2014. Is it that they were not aware of the strike since it began, or simply because their wards are not in public schools? December 30, 2013, all Colleges of Education in the also closed down as the lecturers embarked on strike. Up till this moment, there has been no crucial way-forward on both issues. And even when the agreement would be reached (infinity), what is the possibility it would be kept and we would not have more strikes in the ‘shortest-run’? In 2013, the Academic Staff Union of Universities also downed its tools, and it took almost two academic semesters for the issues to be resolved. Also, several students died as a result of the forceful closure of the schools by their respective managements as two deaths were recorded at the University of Ibadan. Despite these closures all in the fight for a better funding of the educational sector, the fees in several schools have faced a ‘galaxy-tab’ increment. Notable here are University of Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Port-Harcourt, and the National Open University of Nigeria. Thanks to the ‘aluta-spirit’ that enabled the reversal of some though the Management of OAU are still playing stubborn and the Lagos State government is yet to fully comply with the demands of the Students’ Union, Lagos State University. How soon do we expect the return of the kidnapped Chibok school girls, seeing that over 100 people have been kidnapped, we have suffered over ten blasts leaving scores dead and hundreds injured, all courtesy of the Boko Haram sect, since their kidnap. The Nigerian military should not tell us that they have being so focused looking for the missing girls that they could not foil the following attacks. I see no reason the Public Health Sector should periodically embark on strikes, whereas public office holders, their families, and allies run abroad for treatment at the slightest ache. Recently, there was an accident at the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and I was not surprised to learn that deaths were recorded, when there is no Health Centre between Lagos-Ore expressway. How then can lives be saved in the case of an accident? Seeing the nonchalant attitude of this government towards our lives and destinies, I must tell you-this government is bound in killing us…or at least, making the better part of our lives useless. Hence, we must arise and seek a panacea to these socio-political issues. If the International Community, Civil Groups, Religious, Cultural and Political organizations, if those in power, those of influence, those who can and who should come to the rescue, fail to do so within the shortest possible time, then we would be left with no other alternative than to become ‘guilty’ of treason felony, and when charged, we are ready to clearly explain how ‘treason felony’ can become an appropriate tool in curtailing societal genocide!
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:58:13 +0000
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