Minioverszabi

It’s easy to say 'God forbid' when it’s happening to someone else, but everything changes when it’s your own loss.

Yesterday, a woman lost her husband. Some children lost their father.

Yesterday, a boy went to buy stuff from the neighbourhood and never got back home. He died on the road.

Yesterday, some trigger happy men drove past Angwan Rukuba in Jos and sprayed bullets like insecticide on their fellow humans. Unchecked.

Yesterday, Jos bled!

Yesterday, men, women and children met their untimely end.

Will Jos remain the same after this?

We cannot say for certain.

But, one thing we are certain about : we want JUSTICE.

We are tired of the numbers being decimated everyday!

Someone asked me recently if they could move to Jos, I said with enthusiasm, "Oh, Jos is as peaceful as anywhere in Nigeria!" .

Today, I eat my words!

Jos bled. Jos is bleeding!

The audaciousness of this particular killing is a statement in itself!

A statement that leadership on the Plateau has failed it's citizens...

I say this without any doubt or iota of regrets because the killers boasted they were coming... Enough to make any government that cared for it's own to move to stop it!

But did they?

As usual, they turned the blind eye or pretending not to hear...

And today, corpses lie in cold blood as a testament of the negligence we suffer collectively as a nation from those we voted to protect our land...

Will we heal from this?

Is there respite in sight?

Your guess is as good as mine.

But today, we mourn!

Oh Jos! My Jos! When will you smile again?