The month of June will go down in history as one of the most bloody ones in recent history in Nigeria.
A month with a catalogue of unfortunate events and tragedies with casualties as high in numbers that it may only be compared to war time figures.
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From the ransacking of a village community by blood thirsty killer herdsmen in an act that I simply describe as a show of cowardice.
If one deems it necessary to engage a community in battle for some and he thinks he has enough force to win at any rate, why not he be man enough to inform the community of his intentions before hand or at least come in the light of day rather than the middle of night when every person is far asleep and unguarded and let it be his own men against their own, on a neutral ground.
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The next tragedy was the loss of Baby Daniel, the one year old son of famous entertainer D banj who died in very mysterious but highly preventable circumstances. A child who barely got a chance to have a taste of life but never grew old enough to be aware of his own existence. If a song by D bank occupies a space in the memory of your phone and has ever brought a smile to your face and joy to your heart, then the much one can do is share in his grief when he mourns the death of an only son. It is commendable that a celebrity of his age, caliber and status had his first and only child in the confines of marital setting where the norm among many celebrities of his time, some, far less successful than he is to have live recklessly and have kids by several women all out of wedlock.
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Next was the super eagles early exit from the world cup tournament. A disaster of immense proportion for some among us who are either die hard fans of football or others who are just patriotic because it involves our national team. However we were all united at the end, albeit, mournfully.
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And the last one that only occurred yesterday with a fire tanker loosing it's break to crash, spill it's content and igniting a fire that consumed nearly 50 vehicles and killing over 200 who were burned to char. To die in the raging flames of fire, as far as I know has to be the most torturous death a person could die. No pain in the world compares to the death by immolation. While I see people blaming the government for the incident, I'm of the opinion that the recklessness of one driver or the break failure as may be the case of one vehicle along the road that lead to it's cascading and cutting short of several lives cannot be blamed on the government. It is not all tragedies that are tied to the failure of a system in a country. This is the nature of tragedy that could well occur even in some highly developed countries if the world.
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But in all, the of it, the events of June as a month just reaffirms in our hearts and our minds, the sheer fragility and dicey nature of human life.
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Beyond the broken heads and limbs, beyond the blood soaked and charred bodies and all the several mangled and totally unidentifiable body we saw in the media, we must know that these were actual people, who had their lives and things going for them. They have a family that loves and cares for them and would give whatever it takes to upturn the narrative and reserve the incidents that occurred. They were human beings with hopes and dreams like everyone of us and we are by no means better than they were
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Yesterday was them, tomorrow it could be us. The question we should ask ourselves today is, who is next?
Well, it's been a month so far..
