Oby Ezekwesili, a former Vice-
President (Africa) of the World Bank
who retired a few months ago, has
expressed devastation at the killing of
students in Mubi and Port Harcourt in
the past week. I am shaken; I am outraged, I am
devastated, I feel mortally wounded.
The situations in Mubi and Port
Harcourt were terrible. Did you see the
video-recording of how students were
killed in Port Harcourt? Is this not the same country where it is emotionally
difficult when you see a corpse on the
street? I am sorry; I am totally outraged like
any decent citizen of a nation that we
love. The killings were barbaric, mere
savagery and very devastating. Some
people are acting or behaving as if
there are no people in charge of the government. “Something is
fundamentally wrong with our society:
To see the dastardly mob killing of four
misguided youths(Port Harcourt’s) who
stole sank my optimism. Noo! Even in
death, these four must get justice. My voice shall be heard on this. What have
we become? “We used to be better than this. What
has psychologically traumatized our
people? There is a fundamental
problem; there is a breakdown in
something that is proudly Nigeria. I
cannot believe that our society has got to this level. We are broken, we need
to be mended and nobody will mend it
other than ourselves We are getting to the precipice and we
need to pull ourselves back. The
government has to take full
responsibility; it has to be in charge to
prevent anarchy. The only way out is
for the government to prove that it is really in charge. We are a nation of 150million people;
we are not a small country. If the
situation continues like this, we cannot
survive a large-scale conflict. It does
not do us good to befell into a nation of
conflagration. We have to watch it. A lot of countries
that have had genocidal experience
started like this. We have too many problems to
descend into a state of anarchy again.
How can we all sit and watch impunity.

We have been saying dat Nigeria is morally bankrupt but no help at hand to resolve this problem.

Hmmm! That is how a mother would feel after loosing a grown up son. Too painful honestly.

I feel your pains too madam.

But the desent of Nigeria into Abyss should not be a suprise to any of us.

Do we have Nation builders? Do we have a patriots? Our inability to come together and form a nation has resulted into this mess.

It is time we come together and discuss the kind of nation we want.

Or we can continue in denial till dooms day. We can even beat our chest on our technological advancements, after all, we can now record rape and murder, and post them on the internet.