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.
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
