In Nigeria, we always get our priority wrong, and this baffled me a lot. It is only in Nigeria that our securities are killing at will, they are triggers happy, killing the defenceless civilians on a little provocation. Are they telling us that civil unrest cannot be managed without resulting into shooting and killing?
On Friday 25th July, The leader of the Islamic Brotherhood in Nigeria, Ibrahim Zakzaky, has accused the Nigerian military of summarily executing two of his sons after their arrests, in addition to a third son killed earlier, allegedly by soldiers.
It was earlier reportedly that the troops opened fire and killed members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria during an annual procession called ‘Quds Day’ in solidarity with Palestinians under Isreali attacks in Gaza in which at least 5 persons from a Muslim Shiite group in Zaria, Kaduna State of Shiites under the leadership of Sheik Ibraheem Zakzaky fear dead.
The soldier claimed that they ran out patience after waiting for 35 minutes for the procession to end. As they meant to leave, someone in the crowd reportedly opened fire as the protesters blocked the road. But while speaking at a news conference Saturday, Mr. Zakzaky said there were no clashes between Shiite Muslims and soldiers as earlier reported, but that troops opened fire on the worshippers during an annual Qud procession in solidarity with Palestinians!
In as much as i sympathise with the Palestinians, the question that beg for an answer is that what are we going to gain from Israeli-Palestinian War rally while over 200 Nigerian children were been abducted by a terrorist organisation and Zakzaky never organise a rally to show solidarity for the parents of this abducted girls and put pressure on the government to do something concrete?
Common sense demands a man whose house is on fire to rush for the extinguisher for his own dwelling first, before attending to a similar fire elsewhere. This “brotherhood of faith” which they claimed was in solidarity with the Palestinians, but ignoring that we're bereaved at home, is nothing but hypocrite.
Meanwhile, Olajide Laleye, the Director of Army Public Relations, said that the investigation would establish to determine on what actually happened. “However, what is already clear is that Nigerian Army troops did not initiate firing and only acted in self-defence after being fired upon,’’ He said.
Omoba Toba Omidele@ omideletoba@gmail.com
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