ALUU MASSACRE: A Message from D’Banj
Wednesday, October 10, 2012Omoba
They were my
brothers…and yours. Five days ago, I woke
up to yet another unspeakable tragedy. Four young men, all undergraduates,
brimming with great dreams, unfulfilled aspirations and a promising future were
killed.
To express the depth
of my pain and shock at their murder is impossible. And understanding how
events could have degenerated to this level is truthfully beyond me.
Lloyd, Ugo, Tekana and Chidiaka.
Four promising young men whose lives were interwoven in one way or the other
with yours and mine.
I mourn deeply with
the families of these young men because this is OUR collective loss. They were
our colleagues, our classmates, our neighbors, our brothers… our friends.
We are NOT a
nation of barbarians. We CAN follow due processes and procedures.
We MUST fight together as ONE NATION to ensure that Justice
as a whole is served, and as a PROCESS, is duly followed-ALWAYS.
We can only try to
make meaning of this senseless tragedy by ensuring that this WILL not happen
again, by affirming that the pursuit of justice does not in any way entitle any
of us to the willful elimination of other people’s lives and by ensuring that
we, as youths, do not destroy the honorable mantle placed on us as the future
of our nation, by eliminating our present.
Aluu 4 and Mubi 40,
Rest In Perfect Peace.
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