The ever philosophical Yoruba have a saying that, ‘Ori yeye ni mogun, taise lo po’.
This roughly translates to, ‘so many are punished unjustly’.
I congratulate Zainab Aliyu immensely for having an influential father. If her father had not been amongst the formidable wheeler-dealers of society, she would most probably have ended up on the death row in Saudi Arabia.
Does it mean majority of those who had ended up on several Arab countries’ death rows and ultimately having their lives snuffed out of them were innocent?
If that had been the case, is it not enough reason to give up on the country of their birth?
And to think that on the most normal of days, security men in our airports are much more than the actual travellers!
They are always there, army, air force, navy, police, even civil defence. So, what’s their business in the airports if not to make sure the payers of their salaries – the people – are treated with the dignity they deserve?
In Canada, when there was flooding in Quebec, men of the armed forces were deployed there to bring succor to the people in various ways.
The difference is very obvious in Nigeria!
By the way, do we have CCTVs in our airports? I mean functioning ones.
While congratulating Zainab once again, I sympathize with the families of those unfortunate souls who had ended up as sacrificial lambs because of our well known inefficiency!
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