It was a gory sight to behold in Felele on July 28th, 2017 when a commercial bus loaded with passengers collided with a truck that had petroleum products, each coming from the opposite direction. Many lives were lost, and items of property were destroyed. It was an act of God! No human, political or religious action, to the best of my understanding, was responsible for the incidence. The pathetic nature of the incidence calls for endless sober reflection, as death could meet anyone anywhere anyhow anytime.
The Holy Writs admonish us to return to submissive piety anytime an act of God such as the one that happened in Felele, Lokoja happens; give thanks to God and say our prayers for God to avert the recurrence of the similar scenario. Only the ungodly and the unbelievers will attach spiritual, religious and political colourations to road accidents.
It was heavy discontent on July 29th,2017, a day after the incidence when one of the Governor’s aides, Nda Aaron attributed the saddening event at Felele where over 15 people lost their lives in the inferno to the PDP Stakeholders’ meeting in Lokoja held the same day the sad incidence happened. It is not only ungodly but also uncharitable for a man of Nda Aaron’s status to attribute the source of a dangerous road accident to a political party. I want to state clear here that I have no affiliation to, or affinity with the PDP, and do not see sense in what Aaron posted on his Facebook wall on July 29th, 2017 even if I am a member of the APC.How a man of Aaron’s calibre ( with jabber wocky written English) in the government of a state that is grappling with poverty, indirection, non payment of salaries, underdevelopment and high crime rate could strap political bandage on the carnage that sent shocking, enervating and saddening marrow through the bones of well-meaning Nigerians is still to me the height of insensitivity.
The governor seems to enjoy every ounce of insensate posts such as this, done in his honour or just to please him, for many a man in his cabinet has posted in one way or the other the pukes that sent people thinking if the government is in for a real, good change or to make life miserable through dictatorial cyber-attacks . If it were not so, what could one make of a demigod Edward Onoja who ran to his Facebook wall to post with all the pride in him when he used them malleable police and army officers to disperse the protesting students of the KSU and other similar protests in Lokoja, Kogi State; or of Petra Akinti Onyegbule who justified the proscription of the ASUU, KSU as a welcome development by stating that she finished a four year’s course in KSU within the stipulated four years’ time without ASUU’s interference, praising the illegal act of proscription of the ASUU, KSU by the governor; or of Kingsley Fanwo who attacked the world when Bello was caught in the web of a disgraceful act of double registration of voter’s card?
Nda Aaron can still make pittance out of sycophancy without inviting the curse of the Almighty God upon himself. He should tread with caution in his posts (and should do that too with well-polished, decipherable written English) whenever he is out to launder the image of his unpopular governor in order not to provoke onto endless condemnation the imprecations of men of goodwill.
– Odih Daniel
Lokoja, Kogi State
Odih4sure@yahoo.com
