Nigerian Columns Condemns Lynching Of Students

By  Emma Okah, 
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Last week, this column clearly condemned the killing of four innocent students of University of Port Harcourt and insisted that the perpetrators must face the music. In doing so, I affirmed that my personal knowledge of Aluu community before the unfortunate incident of October 5, 2012 did not show them as barbaric. I do not have any evidence to the contrary.

As an Ikwerre man, I attest that Ikwerre people are as shocked and embarrassed as any other Nigerian on the wicked killing of those young boys in Omuokri, Aluu. Every assemblage or community of people would naturally have bad eggs and it is for this reason that we believe the law must take its course so that our country would not witness an ugly incident like that again. However, in the same article which is still continuing today, I had advised Nigeria and Nigerians to address collateral issues that could strain or promote peaceful relationship between UNIPORT and the host communities to avoid similar violence in the future.

This is because the university community and host communities can ill-afford to be enemies as it happened in FUTO some time past. That in my opinion is what a patriotic Nigerian should do. The column is a call to contribute to national growth and development. It’s not about any other sentiment, tribal or religious. Therefore it will be wrong for anyone to criminalize a race or condemn a people purely because of the irresponsibility of a few persons. READMOREHERE