Super Investigative journalist, David Hundeyin drops his opinion on the recent and unfortunate news of Over 90 lives lost as Explosion Rocks Jigawa.
He wrote on Twitter below :
“Last week, if you were to have told those 147 Nigerians who died in the process of stealing fuel from a fallen tanker to go out and protest or do whatever it takes to get at the real source of their problem in Aso Rock, they’d have told you that they didn’t want to “die for nothing” because the drug pusher would send the police and army to shoot them, and nothing would happen.
You’d hear that and think, “Fair enough, our people simply aren’t able to put their lives on the line for anything, because they’ve never been trained to care enough about anything to risk dying for it. They’re just not up to the task, and that’s OK. Not every society is blessed with people who are willing to die to protect its collective interests.”
But then you hear that they instead looked at the odds of dying while crudely scooping 33,000 litres of one the most violently flammable liquids known to man – and they chose that.
And then you wonder – is the death one inevitably earns from being caught in a 1950⁰C petrol inferno while stealing fuel that one hoped to sell for a few pennies more meaningful than the death one might possibly earn from confronting the reality that the decision-making offices in one’s country are being occupied by foreign intelligence assets?
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We are afraid to risk death in an uprising against the CIA asset illegitimately holding Nigeria’s highest office, even though the potential payoff is freedom and a route to prosperity. But we’re not afraid to risk an even worse version of the same death where the payoff for briefly experiencing literal hellfire is N25,000 worth of petrol…
We won’t come together to fight for anything meaningful. But we will die for 20 litres of ka-boom juice…
– David Hundeyin