WHAT A LOSS TO NIGERIA!
WHAT A LOSS TO HUMANITY!!
WHAT A LOSS TO THE WORLD IN GENERAL!!!
A GREAT ONE IS GONE. A GREAT SON OF NIGERIA. A GIFT TO ALL OF MANKIND.
I AM NOT IN THE GROUP THAT HAD KNOWN YOU FOR AGES. NOT EVEN UP TO TEN,
OR FIVE YEARS AGO, BUT LESS THAN THAT.
THOUGH SHORT A LIFE BUT IT'S A LIFE WELL SPENT AND ONE THAT I WILL HOLD
WITH ME FOR A VERY LONG TIME TO COME.
YOU ARE A JOY GIVER.
YOU ARE A FACE BRIGHTENER, FOR NO ONE STAYS WITH AND AROUND YOU THAT
CAN BE SAD OR UNHAPPY FOR LONG.
YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE AND DO YOUR THINGS THE WAY YOU WANT TO, AND NOT AT
THE DICTATE OF OTHERS.
THAT IS YOU.
SO SIMPLE.
SO DOWN TO EARTH.
WHEN I HEARD OF YOUR MURDER, I FELT SICK TO MY STOMACH, I REFUSED TO
BELIEVE IT, TELLING MYSELF IT’S A LIE AND I WILL WAKE OR GET TO THE OFFICE AND
HEAR IT WAS JUST ANOTHER CRAZY RUMOR. BUT OH GOD, IT WAS TRUE. I PUT ON THE
TELEVISION AND RADIO AND THERE I GOT THE SHOCK OF MY LIFE. I THOUGHT OF IT EACH AND EVERY DAY AND I
CAN’T SEEMS TO CONTAIN AND ACCEPT IT. IN FACT, I DON’T WANT TO ACCEPT IT. I
HAVE NOT GOTTEN OVER IT AND AM NOT SURE I CAN.
GOD, THEY SAY KNOWS BEST.
REST IN PEACE, PEOPLE SAY. BUT WHY SHOULD YOU REST IN PEACE WHEN THE
MURDERERS ARE CELEBRATING? WHY MUST THEY LIVE AS IF NOTHING HAPPEN? I CAN’T AND
WILL NOT ASK YOU TO REST IN PEACE, AT LEAST NOT YET. YOU WILL REST ONLY WHEN
THEY START DROPING DEAD ONE AFTER THE OTHER.
I MISS YOU. WE ALL DO MISS YOU FOR WE CAN’T GO A DAY WITHOUT THINKING
OF YOU, BUT MY BROTHER, MY FRIEND AND MY COMRADE, I SAY ADIUE. TILL WE MEET TO
PART NO MORE.
