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A Message From D'banj On The Students Who Were Brutally Murdered By Locals In Jos

They were my brothers…and yours.
Four days ago, I woke up to yet another unspeakable tragedy.

Four young men, all undergraduates, brimming with great dreams, unfulfilled aspirations and a promising future were killed. To express the depth of my pain and shock at their murder is impossible. And understanding how events could have degenerated to this level is truthfully beyond me.

Lloyd, Ugo, Tekana and Chidiaka

Four promising young men whose lives were interwoven in one way or the other with yours and mine.

I mourn deeply with the families of these young men because this is OUR collective loss. They were our colleagues, our classmates, our neighbors, our brothers… our friends.

We are NOT a nation of barbarians. We CAN follow due processes and procedures. We MUST fight together as ONE NATION to ensure that Justice as a whole is served, and as a PROCESS, is duly followed-ALWAYS.

We can only try to make meaning of this senseless tragedy by ensuring that this WILL not happen again, by affirming that the pursuit of justice does not in any way entitle any of us to the willful elimination of other people’s lives and by ensuring that we, as youths, do not destroy the honorable mantle placed on us as the future of our nation, by eliminating our present.

Aluu 4 and Mubi 40, Rest In Perfect Peace.
God Bless Nigeria

Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo
D’banj
UN Youth Ambassador for Peace

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Comment by Vincent Ekpokoba on October 11, 2012 at 7:13am: Talking about violence in Nigeria makes me laugh. Where do we learn violences: In our families from our fathers and mothers and senior ones, from anybody who has some power over us: Intimidation, influencing, forcing, bullying, using force to attain anything or manipulating things over their normal strenght of existence. Difficulty in everyday life cements the lesson we have learned from birth. We know that if you are gentle or weak, you "MUST" do what the stronger ones require of you or be beaten until you say yes. We kill for nay reason at all; either a religious reason, land reason, presumaed stealing. Law for us is only a word in the ENGLISH dictiory because in African language, their is no special definition of law. Law should be made for humans to prevent them from harming each other just like animals are separsted from each other so that the stronger ones will not eat up the weaker ones. Such laws are built and made by the white man to make sure we do not eat up all the wild animals in our bush but because they think that we are also humans and therefore can make and build our own law, the whites for get that we need better protectio from each other even more than wild anmals in the bush. We are killed every day like the worst parasites by our own people. What is the difference if students were killed in Jos or Portharcourt. The same students murderd in Jos because of religion or politics may also have been killed in Potharcourt for stealing laptops. DEATH IS DEATH. Nigeria man life is worth less than a chicken's life. The destiny of any Nigerian in Nigeria is uncertain. natural death is a dream for many.

Comment by abegunde foluke on October 11, 2012 at 6:21am: D'banj,this is great,keep it up,you are true our ambassador. May their souls rest in peace,amen

Comment by abegunde foluke on October 11, 2012 at 6:19am: At peter,who mentioned Jos here,you better look and read well before you make nasty comments!

Comment by Peter on October 10, 2012 at 4:15pm: Who is the monkey that said these students were killed in Jos? How can you screw up a well known fact so easily? These students were killed in Aluu a university community just outside University of Port Harcourt. Shame on you!!!

Comment by alozie orji on October 10, 2012 at 9:57am: D'BANJ.IT IS A SAD SITATION REALLY.BUT SOME OF US THAT GREW IN THAT ZONE KNOW THAT WHAT HAPPENED IS NOT REALLY SO DIFFERENT FROM THE WAY THINGS ARE HANDLED OUT THERE.I THINK THAT THIS INCIDENT IS DESIGNED BY GOD TO PUT A FINAL STOP TO SUCH ATTITUDES.WHERE WAS THE POLICE?I KNOW THE PLACE VERY WELL,THE INCIDENT WOULDN'T HAVE LASTED LESS THAN 30 MINUTES.IT IS ABOUT 10 MINUTES DRIVE TO UNIPORT.THERE IS POLICE STATION AROUND THERE EVEN IF NONE,THERE WAS ENOUGH TIME FOR POLICE TO ARRIVE THERE FROM UNIPORT.THEY THOUGHT NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.BUT I ASSURE THEM THAT PLENTY THINGS WOULD HAPPEN LEGALLY.THE GOVT. IS ON TOP OF THE SITUATION.

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