ANOTHER GRUESOME MURDER & THE DANGERS of an INCREASINGLY DECADENT NIGERIA
August 4, 2021 | News
It's all over. One week after, we found decomposing corpse of Ms Patience Komone at Umeh village in the Isoko South village, off East West Road of Delta state, where she had, as usual, gone to buy pepper and other vegetables for her petty trade in Warri.
-By Zik Gbemre
ANOTHER GRUESOME MURDER & THE DANGERS of an INCREASINGLY DECADENT NIGERIA
The murder of Ms Patience Komone of Otughievwen (Otu-Jeremi Town) of Ughelli South LGA, Delta state in Umeh village of Isoko South LGA, Delta State again attests to a bleak future for coming Nigerian generations.
There is a grave danger ahead as the best society role models are now the Hushpuppis, Militant leaders, thieving political officeholders, all who flaunt ill-gotten wealth of questionable sources.
The sooner we reform our society, the better for our generations unborn.
It's all over. One week after, we found decomposing corpse of Ms Patience Komone at Umeh village in the Isoko South village, off East West Road of Delta state, where she had, as usual, gone to buy pepper and other vegetables for her petty trade in Warri.
Patience (fondly Pat,) about 50 hails from Otughievwen (Otu-Jeremi), Headquarters of Ughelli South Local Government, lived around Tipper Garage, Orhuwhorun Road, Udu LGA and traded at the Hausa Market along Effurun Sapele Road, till her painful death. She is survived with only one daughter.
After initial reluctance by Umeh community and market leaders to show commitment to investigations over the disappearance of Pat, a police raid on the community led to the disclosure of the Okada Man who was seen taking the victim from the market that fateful Tuesday.
What did an innocent pepper seller, single mother who toil to raise an only daughter, do to deserve such a gruesome murder? What was her offense? Prime suspect, the Okada man would probably provide the answers.
The appeal to the police authorities is that they must not let the prime suspect slip out of custody. Justice must be dispensed in the interest of the immediate family and for enlightenment of the public.
Again, the impunity with which she was murdered attests to the reality that the poor state of insecurity in Nigeria permeate all zones, all states, all corners of the Nigerian state.
The high insecurity is not limited to Boko Haram, bandits or killer herdsmen up North. There are mindless savages everywhere, who would kill for any motive, mostly in pursuit of fast money.
Investigations may not have been concluded with the preliminary findings, but from the tone of events so far, there is every likelihood that the killers of Pat are no strangers. They are not Boko Haram, not bandits or Fulani herdsmen. They are not far from the community. They are killers within.
The key lessons is that these evils are likely to get worse across the country because we are increasingly faced by a generation where the best role models for the younger ones are showoff magic billionaires whose sources of income are most questionable.
The most prominent role models include desperadoes who rigged their way into political power as paupers and became instant billionaires. The youths who the modern day politicians engage to intimidate, castigate, even kill political rivals to impose themselves as political officeholders see how fast you to get rich by criminality.
The youths see how yahooboys scam victims, kill for rituals, eat faeces, and do all sorts of evil in despicable manner to make fast money. They see how the Hushpuppis, Evans, fraudsters and other violent militants/criminals rose to become power brokers and billionaires overnight without any tangible investments or businesses to defend the instant wealth.
Even more dangerous is the realization that rather than the relevant agencies questioning those with ill-gotten wealth, these stakeholders and majority gullible Nigeria populace protect and celebrate the criminal billionaires.
Power brokers in government at all tiers and arms, the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary are known to cultivate intimate relationships with these magic billionaires. They even woo them to fund their election rigging.
The danger is that the coming generation don't see any value in dignity of labour, don't see any need for serious education, industry, integrity and self-esteem. All that it takes is to find the shortest cuts, no hardwork, and you are rich, at the expense of other human lives.
Not many among the younger generation now want to be like Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Austin Okocha, Michael Ibru, Alhassan Dantata or any genuine role model who had to toil through thick and tin to achieve fame in various fields of endeavours.
Most youths now want to be like Hushpuppi, Evans, and their likes, make fast money without sweating for it. They want to rig elections like modern day officeholders and feast on the commonwealth to become instant billionaires.
The sooner our society reforms itself and let merit, dignity of labour and good name prevail over criminal wealth, the better for Nigeria. Else the future is just too bleak.
Zik Gbemre.
August 4, 2021
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
-By Zik Gbemre
ANOTHER GRUESOME MURDER & THE DANGERS of an INCREASINGLY DECADENT NIGERIA
The murder of Ms Patience Komone of Otughievwen (Otu-Jeremi Town) of Ughelli South LGA, Delta state in Umeh village of Isoko South LGA, Delta State again attests to a bleak future for coming Nigerian generations.
There is a grave danger ahead as the best society role models are now the Hushpuppis, Militant leaders, thieving political officeholders, all who flaunt ill-gotten wealth of questionable sources.
The sooner we reform our society, the better for our generations unborn.
It's all over. One week after, we found decomposing corpse of Ms Patience Komone at Umeh village in the Isoko South village, off East West Road of Delta state, where she had, as usual, gone to buy pepper and other vegetables for her petty trade in Warri.
Patience (fondly Pat,) about 50 hails from Otughievwen (Otu-Jeremi), Headquarters of Ughelli South Local Government, lived around Tipper Garage, Orhuwhorun Road, Udu LGA and traded at the Hausa Market along Effurun Sapele Road, till her painful death. She is survived with only one daughter.
After initial reluctance by Umeh community and market leaders to show commitment to investigations over the disappearance of Pat, a police raid on the community led to the disclosure of the Okada Man who was seen taking the victim from the market that fateful Tuesday.
What did an innocent pepper seller, single mother who toil to raise an only daughter, do to deserve such a gruesome murder? What was her offense? Prime suspect, the Okada man would probably provide the answers.
The appeal to the police authorities is that they must not let the prime suspect slip out of custody. Justice must be dispensed in the interest of the immediate family and for enlightenment of the public.
Again, the impunity with which she was murdered attests to the reality that the poor state of insecurity in Nigeria permeate all zones, all states, all corners of the Nigerian state.
The high insecurity is not limited to Boko Haram, bandits or killer herdsmen up North. There are mindless savages everywhere, who would kill for any motive, mostly in pursuit of fast money.
Investigations may not have been concluded with the preliminary findings, but from the tone of events so far, there is every likelihood that the killers of Pat are no strangers. They are not Boko Haram, not bandits or Fulani herdsmen. They are not far from the community. They are killers within.
The key lessons is that these evils are likely to get worse across the country because we are increasingly faced by a generation where the best role models for the younger ones are showoff magic billionaires whose sources of income are most questionable.
The most prominent role models include desperadoes who rigged their way into political power as paupers and became instant billionaires. The youths who the modern day politicians engage to intimidate, castigate, even kill political rivals to impose themselves as political officeholders see how fast you to get rich by criminality.
The youths see how yahooboys scam victims, kill for rituals, eat faeces, and do all sorts of evil in despicable manner to make fast money. They see how the Hushpuppis, Evans, fraudsters and other violent militants/criminals rose to become power brokers and billionaires overnight without any tangible investments or businesses to defend the instant wealth.
Even more dangerous is the realization that rather than the relevant agencies questioning those with ill-gotten wealth, these stakeholders and majority gullible Nigeria populace protect and celebrate the criminal billionaires.
Power brokers in government at all tiers and arms, the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary are known to cultivate intimate relationships with these magic billionaires. They even woo them to fund their election rigging.
The danger is that the coming generation don't see any value in dignity of labour, don't see any need for serious education, industry, integrity and self-esteem. All that it takes is to find the shortest cuts, no hardwork, and you are rich, at the expense of other human lives.
Not many among the younger generation now want to be like Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Austin Okocha, Michael Ibru, Alhassan Dantata or any genuine role model who had to toil through thick and tin to achieve fame in various fields of endeavours.
Most youths now want to be like Hushpuppi, Evans, and their likes, make fast money without sweating for it. They want to rig elections like modern day officeholders and feast on the commonwealth to become instant billionaires.
The sooner our society reforms itself and let merit, dignity of labour and good name prevail over criminal wealth, the better for Nigeria. Else the future is just too bleak.
Zik Gbemre.
August 4, 2021
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes