Rants of the Community's Eye
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A visit to the residence of Anna & Jerry at the Nicoho Barracks evoked so much painful emotions as pain was palpable on the family owing to the tragic demise of their kids in yet a tragic event.
On Monday the 7th of February is a day to never forget in the life of Anna, Jerry and everyone who is affiliated to this young family.
I was at First Mobitech looking for good batteries for my Camera when I got an urgent call to check out an accident involving a Lexus and some passengers on an Okada between Leaders Academy and the 1st Checking Point from Waterboard to Igbira Camp.
I hurriedly made my transaction, took a bike and on getting there met the most heart rendering accident I've ever seen. It involved a Lexus reportedly driven by guys suspected to be Yahoo Boys who were recklessly driving in celebration of their graduation from school having completed their exams same day and an Okada Rider bearing 3passengers _a young man and two kids who were going to be reunited with their mother having closed from school at Father Grace Memorial School waterboard.
The impact was terrible to the point that the Okada Rider and both kids gave up the ghosts on the spot. The young man broke a femur and the vehicle that crushed them crumbled and flipped into a drain with various damages but none on the boys in it.
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Jungle Justice was instantaneously dangling on their heads but thanks to men of the Nigerian Army, they were saved and quickly handed over to the Police while swirling tensions were being calmed by the soldiers via traffic control and other means of ensuring sanity during such circumstance.
In all these, I did not know it was Anna's kids that were the victims of this gruesome scene, I was unaware that the man whose femur had broken was Anna's younger brother.
Although the Okada Rider looked like a Northerner whose Hausa speaking colleagues had rented space everywhere, it was yet to be known to the Soldiers who prevented the driver and his cohort from meeting their Waterloo that the kids who where crushed were their colleague's children who at the time was on official duty away from Auchi.
As soon as I posted the update, I got a call from a senior colleague that the Children were Anna's _Anna!? I exclaimed half confused, half surprised with a sprinkle of palpable pain on my being.
Truth be told, I've ironed the 'asoebi' of Anna and Jerry with which I attended their Nuptial Union at Pastorial Center some 4years back.
I couldn't but scream 'Inna lillahi wa Inna illayi raji uun!'
To cut the long story short, I together with uncle Lucky Marcus visited Anna and one could see how emotionally drained a woman who had bathed her precious kids in the morning had become having received the most painful news a mother can ever listen to about her children who she had expected to come home to her hugs, kisses and other motherly idiosyncracies that bond families and make memories.
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I saw so much but in all, her kids were gone _never to return simply because some reckless young men decided to drive recklessly like all alledged Yahoo Boys do in Auchi Sacred Kingdom .
This vice is killing us in all ways.
These boys who have made it their stock in trade to defraud people have invited inflation upon us, they have resorted to rituals _killing our girl-children in dubiety and what's worse? Our roads have become unsafe simply because they can afford to own and drive cars.
There's more _beyond what my pen can pen in view of x-raying the unwholesomeness of these young boys but because we've all compromised, the vices stemming from their nefarious activities are killing us in all ways yet we've kept mum!
Shall we continue to keep mum?
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ReplyDeleteNo we shall not. Time to speak up. Even when those who are benefiting keep mute. Let does of us who are not afraid to speak, speak up.
ReplyDeleteGod pls heal this family........
ReplyDeleteHow I wish the community will impose a law to stop those boys from displaying their wealth/stupidity
This is so heart breaking, the so-called yahoo boys in a matter of years, months or probably days will still be released to join the community ,wheras have caused a dug a deep hole in the hearts of the family of the deceased persons. May God help us all
ReplyDeleteIs so pathetic! The society don't encourage hard working anymore. May God almighty console the family and protect us all. My condolences to the family.
ReplyDeleteI just saw the pictures. Never knew it was Anna. May God grant her the fortitude to bare the loss hmmmm.....
ReplyDeleteIt's really sad and awful. May the departed souls rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteParents are the root cause of all the problems.
ReplyDeleteYour son comes home one day with luxury and flashy car(s) without a good and legal source of income and you are singing his praises without caring to find out how he got the glory but only to be proud of his illegal achievement.
LET PARENTS TIGHTEN UP THEIR BELTS.