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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