BUNMI ADEYERA AND THE CRIME OF SERVING HIS FATHERLAND
Early this morning, news broke about an NYSC Corp member tortured until he fainted by security operatives attached to his NYSC camp at Nassarawa State. It’s unfortunate and sad that the security operatives who were attached to the camp to guard and protect the Corp members are the ones inflating the pain they were meant to shield them from.
Seeing the report about the incident on Lindaikeji.blogspot.com this morning exactly 6:05am, was heartbreaking to say the least. A Corper left his familiar territory without discontentment, for a State that is foreign to him, just because his Fatherland made it mandatory; and the thanks he got is a criminal-like torture.
According to the report about the incident, He had a near death experience all because they assumed he was
“being stubborn”, even though the witness said that he quietly explained why he has to go out of the camp (to eat to take drug after falling ill a day before). This shows how sympathetic and concerned we are as Nigerians to each other’s situation.
Bunmi Adeyera is a friend, I might not know him as much as his family does, but the two years we spent together at the same tertiary institution gives me an insight to his behavior or reaction when he is caught in such situation. I don’t have to be there to picture his admiration to the confrontation by the security operatives; I see him with his hands folded, smiling while shaking his head in dismay.
The person who sent the report about the incident was right when the individual wrote, “Every Corp member including NYSC officials know Bunmi to be easy going, obedient and friend to all”. This same attribute and more helped him win the Mr. N.I.J of our Institution, a position which placed him as the face of Nigerian Institute of Journalism for that year.
This is why I’m baffled regarding their reason of mistreating him. And as well determining what to do to him based on his region in Nigeria; What if he is an Igbo man, would they have killed him?, for them to torture him being a Yoruba boy till he fainted for “being stubborn”. And if he is Hausa, would they have told him to go and sin no more?
No reason should make him experience such maltreatment in the hands of the security operatives attached to his Camp. They have no right to treat him like a criminal; and if they do, they and the person who gave such right should be made to face the law in order to deter others from repeating their action.
The actions of the Security Operatives totally rubbish the purpose of the creation of NYSC, as being a form of UNITY and BROTHERLINESS among Nigerians.
I’ve always thought there is a crack in our unity, but the outcome of the election made me have a change of mind, thinking we have patched things up, but now I see it’s nothing but a façade
*******By Fakoyejo Olalekan**********
Early this morning, news broke about an NYSC Corp member tortured until he fainted by security operatives attached to his NYSC camp at Nassarawa State. It’s unfortunate and sad that the security operatives who were attached to the camp to guard and protect the Corp members are the ones inflating the pain they were meant to shield them from.
Seeing the report about the incident on Lindaikeji.blogspot.com this morning exactly 6:05am, was heartbreaking to say the least. A Corper left his familiar territory without discontentment, for a State that is foreign to him, just because his Fatherland made it mandatory; and the thanks he got is a criminal-like torture.
According to the report about the incident, He had a near death experience all because they assumed he was
“being stubborn”, even though the witness said that he quietly explained why he has to go out of the camp (to eat to take drug after falling ill a day before). This shows how sympathetic and concerned we are as Nigerians to each other’s situation.
Bunmi Adeyera is a friend, I might not know him as much as his family does, but the two years we spent together at the same tertiary institution gives me an insight to his behavior or reaction when he is caught in such situation. I don’t have to be there to picture his admiration to the confrontation by the security operatives; I see him with his hands folded, smiling while shaking his head in dismay.
The person who sent the report about the incident was right when the individual wrote, “Every Corp member including NYSC officials know Bunmi to be easy going, obedient and friend to all”. This same attribute and more helped him win the Mr. N.I.J of our Institution, a position which placed him as the face of Nigerian Institute of Journalism for that year.
This is why I’m baffled regarding their reason of mistreating him. And as well determining what to do to him based on his region in Nigeria; What if he is an Igbo man, would they have killed him?, for them to torture him being a Yoruba boy till he fainted for “being stubborn”. And if he is Hausa, would they have told him to go and sin no more?
No reason should make him experience such maltreatment in the hands of the security operatives attached to his Camp. They have no right to treat him like a criminal; and if they do, they and the person who gave such right should be made to face the law in order to deter others from repeating their action.
The actions of the Security Operatives totally rubbish the purpose of the creation of NYSC, as being a form of UNITY and BROTHERLINESS among Nigerians.
I’ve always thought there is a crack in our unity, but the outcome of the election made me have a change of mind, thinking we have patched things up, but now I see it’s nothing but a façade
*******By Fakoyejo Olalekan**********
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