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To #OurChibokGirls, Our dear daughters, ten years ago on a day like today, you tragically became the metaphor for a Nigeria that serially fails her poorest and most vulnerable. For all who have stood with you and your parents, refusing to exhaust hope for your freedom, we want…
By their fruits, ye shall know them. Shalom 🙏🏾
As a reader of this story, what does it tell you about the Airegin people who act and think this way? Slow down and really think about it. If you think and act towards @obyezeks the way these people have, what does it say about you?
A people who have attempted to turn the hero in the story into the villain. A people who will fail in doing so.
A people who blame a person of privilege - who could’ve kept quiet like many others - for speaking up for the less privileged.
This is a narrative they repeat until today, 10 years later. They haven’t slowed down to reflect on what it says about them. A people who blame a former Minister of Education for caring that girls kidnapped in her country were going to be ignored by the govt and its citizens.
JEGites looked around…they needed a scapegoat…someone to blame. So they faced the woman who had lent her voice to a cause calling for the rescue of hundreds of kidnapped girls. It was her fault that the JEG govt lost. If only she had kept quiet, they’d still be in paradise.
The CPA took power and turned out to be more incompetent than the JEG admin. Inside that incompetence, another incompetence dey inside 🎶 Sadly, they also ignored the plight of the kidnapped girls. It was just a stone they had found convenient to throw at the previous govt.
The JEG admin lost the election. That an incompetent government didn’t have the competence to win an incumbent election shouldn’t have been a surprise. Incompetence frequently expresses itself in the incompetent.
Due to the general incompetence of the JEG govt, their opposition (the CPA) went hard on them and were vicious. The CPA used everything they could to tear at the administration, including the movement spurred by the case of the kidnapped girls.
So what happened to the girls who were kidnapped? Thankfully, a number of the girls escaped over time and found their way back. However, 82 remain unaccounted for.
History tends to show up in new clothing. She and her family went through a different type of exile this time. They were exiled from Nigeria - while in Nigeria. It was a tough period.
Side note: This wouldn’t be the first time she had spoken up to an Airegin government. In fact, she’d done it in her younger days during the military era. For that, she got exiled from her country and family…for years.
Now this same woman - who had turned down positions in the government - was using the privilege of her voice to demand that the government take responsibility for rescuing hundreds of kidnapped girls. How do you think they took it? Not so well. So they persecuted her and others.
You might ask, “why would she turn down such a juicy position?” Well, she only took on assignments. Not positions. Her ability to take on this assignment would be hampered by a weak government with no true sense of values or clear mission and vision for the country.
She was a superstar known as Madam Due Process in a nation many would describe as absent of process. She became Vice President of the World Bank years after and was excellent. It made sense for any government to want her in a position of leadership, but she turned them down.
Their accusations were far from the obvious truth. She wasn’t seeking a ministerial position. Quite the opposite. The JEG government had repeatedly asked this same woman to be a minister, and she turned them down. What government wouldn’t want her?
They threw numerous accusations against her. “What is your business with the North? You must be doing it because you want a ministerial position,” they screamed.
Let’s recap the story so far. A female ex-Minister of Education cared that hundreds of girls were kidnapped while at school and took responsibility as a citizen. Makes sense so far, right? Not to the govt and JEGites. They didn’t like her demands, so they harassed her.
So ladies and gentlemen, would you like to guess what this woman did? She spoke up. She as a citizen of her country joined others to speak up and demand that the Airegin government #BringBackOurGirls.
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878 Followers 532 FollowingTo #OurChibokGirls, Our dear daughters, ten years ago on a day like today, you tragically became the metaphor for a Nigeria that serially fails her poorest and most vulnerable. For all who have stood with you and your parents, refusing to exhaust hope for your freedom, we want…
By their fruits, ye shall know them. Shalom 🙏🏾
As a reader of this story, what does it tell you about the Airegin people who act and think this way? Slow down and really think about it. If you think and act towards @obyezeks the way these people have, what does it say about you?
A people who have attempted to turn the hero in the story into the villain. A people who will fail in doing so.
A people who blame a person of privilege - who could’ve kept quiet like many others - for speaking up for the less privileged.
This is a narrative they repeat until today, 10 years later. They haven’t slowed down to reflect on what it says about them. A people who blame a former Minister of Education for caring that girls kidnapped in her country were going to be ignored by the govt and its citizens.
JEGites looked around…they needed a scapegoat…someone to blame. So they faced the woman who had lent her voice to a cause calling for the rescue of hundreds of kidnapped girls. It was her fault that the JEG govt lost. If only she had kept quiet, they’d still be in paradise.
The CPA took power and turned out to be more incompetent than the JEG admin. Inside that incompetence, another incompetence dey inside 🎶 Sadly, they also ignored the plight of the kidnapped girls. It was just a stone they had found convenient to throw at the previous govt.
The JEG admin lost the election. That an incompetent government didn’t have the competence to win an incumbent election shouldn’t have been a surprise. Incompetence frequently expresses itself in the incompetent.
Due to the general incompetence of the JEG govt, their opposition (the CPA) went hard on them and were vicious. The CPA used everything they could to tear at the administration, including the movement spurred by the case of the kidnapped girls.
So what happened to the girls who were kidnapped? Thankfully, a number of the girls escaped over time and found their way back. However, 82 remain unaccounted for.
History tends to show up in new clothing. She and her family went through a different type of exile this time. They were exiled from Nigeria - while in Nigeria. It was a tough period.
Side note: This wouldn’t be the first time she had spoken up to an Airegin government. In fact, she’d done it in her younger days during the military era. For that, she got exiled from her country and family…for years.
Now this same woman - who had turned down positions in the government - was using the privilege of her voice to demand that the government take responsibility for rescuing hundreds of kidnapped girls. How do you think they took it? Not so well. So they persecuted her and others.
You might ask, “why would she turn down such a juicy position?” Well, she only took on assignments. Not positions. Her ability to take on this assignment would be hampered by a weak government with no true sense of values or clear mission and vision for the country.
She was a superstar known as Madam Due Process in a nation many would describe as absent of process. She became Vice President of the World Bank years after and was excellent. It made sense for any government to want her in a position of leadership, but she turned them down.
Their accusations were far from the obvious truth. She wasn’t seeking a ministerial position. Quite the opposite. The JEG government had repeatedly asked this same woman to be a minister, and she turned them down. What government wouldn’t want her?
They threw numerous accusations against her. “What is your business with the North? You must be doing it because you want a ministerial position,” they screamed.
Let’s recap the story so far. A female ex-Minister of Education cared that hundreds of girls were kidnapped while at school and took responsibility as a citizen. Makes sense so far, right? Not to the govt and JEGites. They didn’t like her demands, so they harassed her.
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