They were my brothers…and yours.
Four days ago, I woke up to yet another unspeakable
tragedy.
Four young men, all undergraduates, brimming with
great dreams, unfulfilled aspirations and a promising future were killed. To
express the depth of my pain and shock at their murder is impossible. And
understanding how events could have degenerated to this level is truthfully
beyond me.
Lloyd, Ugo, Tekana and Chidiaka
Four promising young men whose lives were
interwoven in one way or the other with yours and mine.
I mourn deeply with the families of these young men
because this is OUR collective loss. They were our colleagues, our classmates,
our neighbors, our brothers… our friends.
We are NOT a nation of barbarians. We CAN follow due processes and
procedures. We MUST fight together as ONE NATION to ensure that Justice as a
whole is served, and as a PROCESS, is duly followed-ALWAYS.
We can only try to make meaning of this senseless
tragedy by ensuring that this WILL not happen again, by affirming that the
pursuit of justice does not in any way entitle any of us to the willful
elimination of other people’s lives and by ensuring that we, as youths, do not
destroy the honorable mantle placed on us as the future of our nation, by
eliminating our present.
Aluu 4 and Mubi 40, Rest In
Perfect Peace.
God Bless Nigeria
Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo
D’banj
UN Youth Ambassador for
Peace
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