Injustice

Two years after the EndSars protests on October 2o, 2020, across Nigeria, a number of state governments are yet to compensate victims of the protests.

This attitude by political office holders has brought to the fore the mindset of those who represent Nigerians at all levels of public office.

Families and communities are still mourning their loved ones who lost their lives as a result of the absence  of the will to do the right thing by those who occupy public offices.
Obviously, this is an eye opener for all and sundry.

However, an Ex-Officio of the Oyo state council of the Trade Union Congress(TUC), who is also a former chairman of the union in the state, Comrade Andrew Emelieze asks some very important questions :
1)Why were the street lights at the Lekki toll gate switched off on the night of the protests?
2)Who ordered that the Close Circuit Television Cameras(CCTV) be switched off?
3)Who also ordered that the lights of the billboard advertisement be switched off?
4)Why were the security operatives deployed to the scene armed with rifles and live ammunition?
5) Where are the bodies of other victims of the Lekki incident aside from those deposited in the mortuary?
Comrade Emelieze laments that lessons have not been learnt from the 2020 protests saying, '' two years down the line, all the events that led to the EndSARs protests are still with us today. There is police brutality everywhere. Nigerian police officers and rank and file are back on the streets collecting bribes from motorists. Youths aside from the criminally minded are the targets of extortion and molestation.''

Self-determination groups in Nigeria shall discontinue their agitations when injustice, insecurity, inequality, and imbalances in political appointments are addressed.
This assertion was made by the Ezendigbo of Ibadan and Oyo state, who also doubles ad the National Vice Chairman (South) of Ezendigbo in the diaspora, Eze(Dr.) Alex Anozie.
''Deceit, injustice, insecurity, imbalances in political appointments, and inequality gave birth to the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB). If all these shortcomings are addressed their agitation shall fizzle out. IPOB is a pressure group fighting for justice and fighting against injustice in Nigeria''.

If all the above mentioned are addressed, I am sure IPOB will not continue with its agitation. I suspect that IPOB may not continue with their agitation if the shortcomings are addressed. Circumstance brought about IPOB. If care is not taken those people who claim to love Nigeria more than IPOB  may be wrong. If justice is done in Nigeria, every group is happy, all religions are happy and all Nigerians are happy IPOB may not go ahead with their agitations'', Eze(Dr.) Anozie stated.

The presence  of a Female Lawmaker  who was in the chamber of the Kenya Parliament with her five month old baby temporarily disrupted  proceedings last week Wednesday .

The acting Speaker, Christopher Omulele had, on noticing that Kwale Woman Representative, Ms Zuleika Hassan  was in the chamber with her baby, ordered her to take her child out of the chamber.

This resulted into a division among the lawmakers, with some male lawmakers pitching their tents with the female lawmakers wh insisted that Hassan should remain in the chambers.

Even though the acting Speaker ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to implement his order, a human shield around the the female lawmaker  temporarily prevented her from  been taken out.

In a chat with newsmen after leaving the chambers, Ms Hassan, who was accompanied by her female lawmakers, expalined why she was in the chambers with her baby.

"I had an emergency and decided not to miss work but come with the baby. She is not an atomic bomb and can't explode," Ms Hassan stated.

 In 2013, Kenyan lawmakers  passed a motion directing the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) to set aside a room within Parliament buildings for breastfeeding mothers.