Amaechi and Wike: The story of Humpty Dumpty

By Joseph Edgar . . .

We all read this poem. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall and eventually fell and broke his big head and all the king’s men could not put him together again. This is what I see would happen to these two big heads.

The politics of Rivers State has now become a personal ego trip for these two so called leaders and the lives lost, the instability caused really does not matter to them.

I have watched very closely as they have continued to break all rules in their continued quest to show supremacy thereby turning the state into a fierce battle ground all in the name of serving the people.

This is great injustice. I have read how people using state apparatus have tried to assassinate people, how INEC officials who have obviously been compromised disappear with result sheets, high profile assassination, killing of soldiers and all sorts of crimes being committed.

My shame is to the system that has thrown up these kinds of leaders in this day and age. My shame is for a system that cannot bring these people to book, and I stand firmly on the side of the crying widows of Rivers and the orphans who today are suffering simply because two people are on a supremacy battle after in times past coming together to pillage the state.

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Justice always slowly finds its way. It will surely come for the crying children and people of Rivers State no matter how long it takes its time. It will come. These people who because of local government elections have fostered this kind of violence on innocent people will surely be brought to book.

I fail to draw strength to keep writing as my sadness completely envelopes my being. I have become a zombie, numbed with pain and anger at the carnage that just occurred in that state.

It is all the more painful that this is happening at a time when we are supposed to be in an era of supposed ‘change’. Na wa.

 

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