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I just thought I should make my views known on two trending events in Nigeria. It’s okay for us to be accusing those leading us. However, we ourselves should get some resetting of our brains!
The matters of concern are the murder of the ex air chief, Alex Badeh and the disgraced sex for marks professor, Akindele. Naturally, the social media has been awash with all sorts of views concerning the aforementioned issues.
But then, as far as I’m concerned, many of our views portray why we are where we are.
Hope I’m not sounding like vice president Osinbajo!
Some have blatantly declared that Badeh’s death was karmic. In other words, if he had not committed some yet to be proven crime, death wouldn’t have come his way.
A lecturer even wrote that his likes should be executed. I wouldn’t know where the man got his own laws from.
While I sympathize with the soldiers that were sent to their early graves by failure of the authorities to equip them with ammunition, at the same time, how I wish we could exercise some patience and let the courts do their job.
It’s the decent thing to do!
Applauding crime by rationalizing murders is a dangerous trend. And I bet it would do us no good. It’s an evil trend which would only lead us to a Hobbessian state.
The hands of justice, even if slow, will eventually clamp down on the criminals. But for now, we shouldn’t be seen as encouraging crimes and criminals.
As for the sexy professor, he was relieved of his services as a lecturer in the university. He was subsequently found guilty and sentenced by the courts.
I don’t know what problems people have over that. His wouldn’t be the first case as far as I know.
It’s normal that a person who has a case to answer loses his job after due investigation by his employees. In saner climes, such people would even resign.
If government is convinced a crime has been committed, the person is then tried.
So, what’s so special about the professor’s case. Some have been writing that the system succeeded in killing an ant with a sledgehammer.
I wouldn’t subscribe to their views. Even soldiers and policemen who commit crimes are first dismissed and are subsequently handed over to the law enforcement agencies. So are civil servants.
One thing I’m positive about is that he would not be denied his pensions!
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