ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE SOULS!
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE SOULS, JUST KILLED!!
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE MORE SOULS KILLED THIS PAST WEEKEND!!!
KILLED BY THE EVIL, HATING, CALLOUS AND MURDEROUS BOKO HARAMISTS,
WHY SO MUCH HATRED, WHY SO MUCH UNTHINKING KILLING?
WHAT ON EARTH DO THEY HOPE TO ACHIEVE BY ALL THIS KILLING??
WHY KILL INNOCENT AND DEFENCELESS CHILDREN, WOMEN AND POOR MEN TOO,
MEN SUCH AS YOURSELVES??? AND ALL FOR WHAT????
WHY! WHY!! WHY!!! I KEEP ASKING, I'M YET TO GET ANY ANSWER...
LAST WEEK THE WHOLE WORLD MOURNED WITH BOSTON,
WHEN "ONLY" THREE WERE KILLED...
IN NIGERIA TODAY WE BLITHELY GO ON WITH OUR DAILY LIVES,
WITHOUT SO MUCH AS THE FLICKER OF AN EYELID.
NO NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING DECLARED,
NO MEMORIALS ERECTED IN HONOUR OF OUR DEAD,
NOTHING, NADA, BABU, ZILCH!!!
I WON'T ASK WHEN LIFE BECOME SO CHEAP IN NAIJA,
BECAUSE IF I PONDER TOO HARD, IT SEEMS TO ME AND SADLY TOO,
THAT IT HAS "ALWAYS" BEEN SO.
AT LEAST SINCE THE EARLY YEARS OF OUR INDEPENDENCE AS A NATION,
AND IF WE CONTINUE PLODDING ALONG IN THIS VEIN,
WITH THIS OUR YEYE SIDDON LOOK ATTITUDE,
LIFE WILL SURELY BECOME YET CHEAPER STILL...
I WON'T ASK WHAT THEY HOPED TO ACHIEVE BY THESE KILLINGS.
I WON'T BOTHER TO FIND OUT IF THE NUMEROUS DEAD ARE;
SOUTHERNERS OR NORTHERNERS, CHRISTIANS OR MUSLIMS, POLICE OR CIVILIANS...
I LEAVE THAT FOR OTHERS TO DO, MOST OF THEM SO PETTY IN MY VIEW.
ALL I DO KNOW IS THAT ONE NIGHT 185 SOULS WENT TO SLEEP HALE AND HEARTY,
AND THE NEXT DAY THEY WERE NO MORE!!!!
THEY DIDN'T DIE IN ANY NATURAL DISASTER; A FLOOD, EARTHQUAKE OR VOLCANO!!!
THEY DIDN'T EVEN DIE IN ONE OF THE NUMEROUS MAN-MADE DISASTERS,
THAT OCCUR TOO FREQUENTLY TO MENTION IN THIS OUR DEAR NAIJA,
MULTIPLE CAR CRASHES, COLLAPSED BUILDINGS, RAGING FIRES AND THE LIKES!!!
NO, THEY WERE DELIBERATELY KILLED BY MEN JUST LIKE YOU AND I.
EXCEPT THESE ONES, THESE WICKED HEARTLESS MEN ARE JUST SO HATE-FILLED,
THEY NO LONGER SEEM TO KNOW JUST WHO TO DIRECT THEIR MINDLESS HATRED AT...
OUR HAPLESS, CLUELESS GOVT WHOM I SOMETIMES SIMPLY CONSIDER CALLOUS,
ARE TOTALLY UNABLE TO EITHER PROTECT THE LIVES OF NIGERIANS,
CATCH ANY OF THE KILLERS AND KEEP THEM SAFELY IN CUSTODY,
OR BEGIN TO PROSECUTE THE FEW THAT HAVE BEEN ALREADY CAUGHT!
INSTEAD THEY OFFER AMNESTY TO THESE UNREPENTANT, UNRELENTING KILLERS.
AMNESTY KO, AMNESTY NI. NA WAH O, HOW FOR DO???
WHILST THE AMERICANS CAUGHT THEIR BOMBERS WITHIN JUST FIVE DAYS!!!
SHUTTING DOWN A CITY FOR SEVERAL DAYS JUST TO ACHIEVE THIS.
NIGERIANS HAVE ALREADY BURIED THEIR DEAD AND BLITHELY MOVED ON...
YES, ALL ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE SOULS HAVE ALREADY BEEN BURIED...
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE MORE FAMILIES LEFT TO MOURN, SO SAD.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE MORE ORPHANS, WIDOWS, WIDOWERS, MOTHERLESS AND FATHERLESS CHILDREN LEFT TO MOURN,
AND IN SOLITUDE TOO!!!
MORE MISERY, MORE UNTOLD SUFFERING AND DEVASTATION,
AS HOMES, BUSINESSES AND THEIR MARKET GOT RAZED TO THE GROUND.
AND NO RELIEF LIKELY TO COME FROM GOVT EITHER, NOT EVEN MONETARY AID.
AND YET THE EVIL, WICKED HARAMISTS IF THEY DECIDE TO ACCEPT "AMNESTY",
WILL BE OFFERED HUMONGOUS FIGURES JUST TO SHEATH THEIR SWORDS!!!
I AM JUST TOO SAD RIGHT NOW TO EVEN GET ANGRY AT THIS OFFER OF AMNESTY.
NONSENSE AMNESTY! WICKED AMNESTY!! CRUEL AND CALLOUS AMNESTY!!! YEYE AMNESTY!!!! SELF-SERVING AND COWARDLY AMNESTY SEF!!!!
BUT THAT'S A STORY FOR ANOTHER DAY, RIGHT NOW I AM JUST SO SAD
AT MORE NEEDLESS LOSS OF LIFE,
LIVES TAKEN BY MEN WHO CANNOT EVEN BREATH LIFE INTO A FUNGUS!!!
I HAVE NO ANSWERS FOR NOW, NO CLUE ON HOW TO STOP THE KILLINGS.
AND EVEN IF I DID, I'M CERTAINLY NOT IN A POSITION TO IMPLEMENT THEM.
I HAVEN'T BEEN TOUCHED PERSONALLY BY THE KILLINGS, YET!!!
BUT I'VE INDEED BEEN TOUCHED AND WOUNDED IN MY SOUL,
BY ALL THE NEEDLESS LOSS OF LIFE THAT CONTINUES UNABATED IN NIGERIA...
SO THIS IS MY FUNERAL DIRGE TO THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE SOULS,
TO ALL THE HUNDREDS, ACTUALLY THOUSANDS OF OTHER INNOCENT SOULS WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE...
SO LET'S ALL JOIN THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS IN WEEPING AND MOURNING,
LET'S ALL FEEL THEIR PAINS, SHARE IN THEIR SORROWS, GNASH OUR TEETH,
COS WHO KNOWS, TOMMORROW IT COULD BE ME OR EVEN YOU!!!
EITHER KILLED, TERRIBLY MAIMED OR PERHAPS IN MOURNING...
THEN LET'S ALL GET ANGRY, SOOOOOOOOO ANGRY MY FRIENDS AND RESOLUTE.
SO THAT WE WILL DO "ALL" IN OUR POWER TO STOP THESE KILLINGS,
EXPOSE ANY KNOWN KILLERS, SPONSORS OR THEIR WICKED OGAS-@THE-TOP.
LET'S RESOLVE TO STOP ACCEPTING OUR YEYE GOVT'S CALLOUS INEPTITUDE,
PARTICULARLY WHEN IT COMES TO DEALING WITH THESE EVIL HARAMISTS.
LET'S HOLD OUR JUDICIARY AND POLICE TO ACCOUNT TOO,
WHENEVER THEY ATTEMPT TO LET THESE KILLERS GO SCOT FREE.
AND LET'S STAND UP AND SAY A BIG NO TO THESE GOVERNMENT APOLOGISTS,
WHO KEEP URGING US TO ACCEPT "YEYE" AMNESTY AS A DONE DEAL,
AS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE CONTINUED CARNAGE AND WANTON DESTRUCTION
LET'S TELL THEM THAT WE'LL ONLY ACCEPT AMNESTY ON THE GROUNDS THAT; GEJ, SAMBO, THE SULTAN OF SOKOTO AND ALL PROPOSING THIS CRUEL AMNESTY,
FIRST OFFER THEIR FIRSTBORNS, WIVES OR HUSBANDS TO BE SLAUGHTERED BY BOKO HARAM,
AND PERHAPS SOME OF THIER OWN LIMBS CAN EVEN BE BLOWN OFF TOO!!!
THEN IF THEY'RE STILL SINGING THAT YEYE AMNESTY SONG,
SOME, BUT NOT ALL OF US, MAY ACTUALLY JOIN THEM IN THEIR FOOLISH SINGING.
LET US BEGIN TO MAKE HONEST INQUIRIES INTO ALL GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS TOO,
WITH AN AIM TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE KILLINGS, IDENTIFY CULPRITS, APPORTION BLAME AND APPROPRIATE SANCTIONS.
LET US STOP CLOSING OUR EYES AND EARS TO THE CRIES OF THE INNOCENT, JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OUR KITH AND KIN.
LET US BEGIN TO DEMAND THAT OUR GOVERNMENT STARTS TO DO RIGHT BY ALL NIGERIANS ONCE INJUSTICE IS KNOWN TO HAVE OCCURRED, SHIKENA...
GOD PLEASE COMFORT AND CONSOLE THE BEREAVED AS ONLY YOU CAN,
AND SHOW US THE WAY SO THAT WE CAN PUT AN END TO ALL THESE KILLINGS,
BECAUSE IT HAVE DO, THIS EVIL KILLING AND CARNAGE IN NIGERIA HAVE TRULY DOES!!!
BY CHRISTIE NONYE AKUMABOR 22/04/13
P.S. Please pardon my writing in capitals, I just had to in order to try and express the degree of my angst...
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE SOULS, JUST KILLED!!
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE MORE SOULS KILLED THIS PAST WEEKEND!!!
KILLED BY THE EVIL, HATING, CALLOUS AND MURDEROUS BOKO HARAMISTS,
WHY SO MUCH HATRED, WHY SO MUCH UNTHINKING KILLING?
WHAT ON EARTH DO THEY HOPE TO ACHIEVE BY ALL THIS KILLING??
WHY KILL INNOCENT AND DEFENCELESS CHILDREN, WOMEN AND POOR MEN TOO,
MEN SUCH AS YOURSELVES??? AND ALL FOR WHAT????
WHY! WHY!! WHY!!! I KEEP ASKING, I'M YET TO GET ANY ANSWER...
LAST WEEK THE WHOLE WORLD MOURNED WITH BOSTON,
WHEN "ONLY" THREE WERE KILLED...
IN NIGERIA TODAY WE BLITHELY GO ON WITH OUR DAILY LIVES,
WITHOUT SO MUCH AS THE FLICKER OF AN EYELID.
NO NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING DECLARED,
NO MEMORIALS ERECTED IN HONOUR OF OUR DEAD,
NOTHING, NADA, BABU, ZILCH!!!
I WON'T ASK WHEN LIFE BECOME SO CHEAP IN NAIJA,
BECAUSE IF I PONDER TOO HARD, IT SEEMS TO ME AND SADLY TOO,
THAT IT HAS "ALWAYS" BEEN SO.
AT LEAST SINCE THE EARLY YEARS OF OUR INDEPENDENCE AS A NATION,
AND IF WE CONTINUE PLODDING ALONG IN THIS VEIN,
WITH THIS OUR YEYE SIDDON LOOK ATTITUDE,
LIFE WILL SURELY BECOME YET CHEAPER STILL...
I WON'T ASK WHAT THEY HOPED TO ACHIEVE BY THESE KILLINGS.
I WON'T BOTHER TO FIND OUT IF THE NUMEROUS DEAD ARE;
SOUTHERNERS OR NORTHERNERS, CHRISTIANS OR MUSLIMS, POLICE OR CIVILIANS...
I LEAVE THAT FOR OTHERS TO DO, MOST OF THEM SO PETTY IN MY VIEW.
ALL I DO KNOW IS THAT ONE NIGHT 185 SOULS WENT TO SLEEP HALE AND HEARTY,
AND THE NEXT DAY THEY WERE NO MORE!!!!
THEY DIDN'T DIE IN ANY NATURAL DISASTER; A FLOOD, EARTHQUAKE OR VOLCANO!!!
THEY DIDN'T EVEN DIE IN ONE OF THE NUMEROUS MAN-MADE DISASTERS,
THAT OCCUR TOO FREQUENTLY TO MENTION IN THIS OUR DEAR NAIJA,
MULTIPLE CAR CRASHES, COLLAPSED BUILDINGS, RAGING FIRES AND THE LIKES!!!
NO, THEY WERE DELIBERATELY KILLED BY MEN JUST LIKE YOU AND I.
EXCEPT THESE ONES, THESE WICKED HEARTLESS MEN ARE JUST SO HATE-FILLED,
THEY NO LONGER SEEM TO KNOW JUST WHO TO DIRECT THEIR MINDLESS HATRED AT...
OUR HAPLESS, CLUELESS GOVT WHOM I SOMETIMES SIMPLY CONSIDER CALLOUS,
ARE TOTALLY UNABLE TO EITHER PROTECT THE LIVES OF NIGERIANS,
CATCH ANY OF THE KILLERS AND KEEP THEM SAFELY IN CUSTODY,
OR BEGIN TO PROSECUTE THE FEW THAT HAVE BEEN ALREADY CAUGHT!
INSTEAD THEY OFFER AMNESTY TO THESE UNREPENTANT, UNRELENTING KILLERS.
AMNESTY KO, AMNESTY NI. NA WAH O, HOW FOR DO???
WHILST THE AMERICANS CAUGHT THEIR BOMBERS WITHIN JUST FIVE DAYS!!!
SHUTTING DOWN A CITY FOR SEVERAL DAYS JUST TO ACHIEVE THIS.
NIGERIANS HAVE ALREADY BURIED THEIR DEAD AND BLITHELY MOVED ON...
YES, ALL ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE SOULS HAVE ALREADY BEEN BURIED...
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE MORE FAMILIES LEFT TO MOURN, SO SAD.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE MORE ORPHANS, WIDOWS, WIDOWERS, MOTHERLESS AND FATHERLESS CHILDREN LEFT TO MOURN,
AND IN SOLITUDE TOO!!!
MORE MISERY, MORE UNTOLD SUFFERING AND DEVASTATION,
AS HOMES, BUSINESSES AND THEIR MARKET GOT RAZED TO THE GROUND.
AND NO RELIEF LIKELY TO COME FROM GOVT EITHER, NOT EVEN MONETARY AID.
AND YET THE EVIL, WICKED HARAMISTS IF THEY DECIDE TO ACCEPT "AMNESTY",
WILL BE OFFERED HUMONGOUS FIGURES JUST TO SHEATH THEIR SWORDS!!!
I AM JUST TOO SAD RIGHT NOW TO EVEN GET ANGRY AT THIS OFFER OF AMNESTY.
NONSENSE AMNESTY! WICKED AMNESTY!! CRUEL AND CALLOUS AMNESTY!!! YEYE AMNESTY!!!! SELF-SERVING AND COWARDLY AMNESTY SEF!!!!
BUT THAT'S A STORY FOR ANOTHER DAY, RIGHT NOW I AM JUST SO SAD
AT MORE NEEDLESS LOSS OF LIFE,
LIVES TAKEN BY MEN WHO CANNOT EVEN BREATH LIFE INTO A FUNGUS!!!
I HAVE NO ANSWERS FOR NOW, NO CLUE ON HOW TO STOP THE KILLINGS.
AND EVEN IF I DID, I'M CERTAINLY NOT IN A POSITION TO IMPLEMENT THEM.
I HAVEN'T BEEN TOUCHED PERSONALLY BY THE KILLINGS, YET!!!
BUT I'VE INDEED BEEN TOUCHED AND WOUNDED IN MY SOUL,
BY ALL THE NEEDLESS LOSS OF LIFE THAT CONTINUES UNABATED IN NIGERIA...
SO THIS IS MY FUNERAL DIRGE TO THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE SOULS,
TO ALL THE HUNDREDS, ACTUALLY THOUSANDS OF OTHER INNOCENT SOULS WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE...
SO LET'S ALL JOIN THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS IN WEEPING AND MOURNING,
LET'S ALL FEEL THEIR PAINS, SHARE IN THEIR SORROWS, GNASH OUR TEETH,
COS WHO KNOWS, TOMMORROW IT COULD BE ME OR EVEN YOU!!!
EITHER KILLED, TERRIBLY MAIMED OR PERHAPS IN MOURNING...
THEN LET'S ALL GET ANGRY, SOOOOOOOOO ANGRY MY FRIENDS AND RESOLUTE.
SO THAT WE WILL DO "ALL" IN OUR POWER TO STOP THESE KILLINGS,
EXPOSE ANY KNOWN KILLERS, SPONSORS OR THEIR WICKED OGAS-@THE-TOP.
LET'S RESOLVE TO STOP ACCEPTING OUR YEYE GOVT'S CALLOUS INEPTITUDE,
PARTICULARLY WHEN IT COMES TO DEALING WITH THESE EVIL HARAMISTS.
LET'S HOLD OUR JUDICIARY AND POLICE TO ACCOUNT TOO,
WHENEVER THEY ATTEMPT TO LET THESE KILLERS GO SCOT FREE.
AND LET'S STAND UP AND SAY A BIG NO TO THESE GOVERNMENT APOLOGISTS,
WHO KEEP URGING US TO ACCEPT "YEYE" AMNESTY AS A DONE DEAL,
AS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE CONTINUED CARNAGE AND WANTON DESTRUCTION
LET'S TELL THEM THAT WE'LL ONLY ACCEPT AMNESTY ON THE GROUNDS THAT; GEJ, SAMBO, THE SULTAN OF SOKOTO AND ALL PROPOSING THIS CRUEL AMNESTY,
FIRST OFFER THEIR FIRSTBORNS, WIVES OR HUSBANDS TO BE SLAUGHTERED BY BOKO HARAM,
AND PERHAPS SOME OF THIER OWN LIMBS CAN EVEN BE BLOWN OFF TOO!!!
THEN IF THEY'RE STILL SINGING THAT YEYE AMNESTY SONG,
SOME, BUT NOT ALL OF US, MAY ACTUALLY JOIN THEM IN THEIR FOOLISH SINGING.
LET US BEGIN TO MAKE HONEST INQUIRIES INTO ALL GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS TOO,
WITH AN AIM TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE KILLINGS, IDENTIFY CULPRITS, APPORTION BLAME AND APPROPRIATE SANCTIONS.
LET US STOP CLOSING OUR EYES AND EARS TO THE CRIES OF THE INNOCENT, JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OUR KITH AND KIN.
LET US BEGIN TO DEMAND THAT OUR GOVERNMENT STARTS TO DO RIGHT BY ALL NIGERIANS ONCE INJUSTICE IS KNOWN TO HAVE OCCURRED, SHIKENA...
GOD PLEASE COMFORT AND CONSOLE THE BEREAVED AS ONLY YOU CAN,
AND SHOW US THE WAY SO THAT WE CAN PUT AN END TO ALL THESE KILLINGS,
BECAUSE IT HAVE DO, THIS EVIL KILLING AND CARNAGE IN NIGERIA HAVE TRULY DOES!!!
BY CHRISTIE NONYE AKUMABOR 22/04/13
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P.S. Please pardon my writing in capitals, I just had to in order to try and express the degree of my angst...
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