A young man has recounted his experience with social media influencer, Adenike Oyetunde this morning after a young man parked his car and backed his dying father and started running to the hospital. Read what he wrote below:
This morning I took a deep and sombre look at how the manner acts of governance and political decisions always visit untold hardship on Nigerians. It leaves searing pains both on the psyche and physical injuries on the populace. As if the apathy and disillusionment the current political system visited on the nation is not enough.
I left my home at 5:30am to get to the office, I heard the President of The Federal Republic is visiting Lagos, all intersecting roads around Magodo became instant vehicular traffic gridlock. Governor Ambode declared a public holiday, but not everyone that works in Lagos is a civil servant. I saw a scene that brought tears to my eyes this morning, a young guy between the age of 29, out of desperation and despair to save his ailing Dad that needed urgent medical help, parked by the roadside close to the old toll gate, he struggled to strap his father on his back. That man could be my father, I can’t imagine what it will be to carry my Six Footer Dad on my back. I shed more tears seeing this young guy in pains, the only thing I could do was to get out of my car and hand him over his phone and a bottle of water. Must every VIP movement cause our people more pains and hardship? On a recent flight from Accra to Lagos we hovered over Lagos for more than 35 minutes, because I was hunched over a book I didn’t check the elapsed time, until a woman raised an alarm that this journey was supposed to be less than 1 hour, that was when the Cabin Crew member announced to the gobsmacked passengers that there “is VIP Movement”. There is a lot of perceived gaffe or dissonance in the way our people in Government behave, Nigerians fantasised about who or what will be good governance, some coloured it with partisan politics, other view it from the prisms of religion and ethnic sentiments; roads need not be blocked because The President is on a official tour of Lagos. Nigerians are tired. Who do you trust? Police or soldiers or traffic warders or LASTMA in this choatic situation? Those that punish the mildest misdemeanours with disproportionate force. I cry for this nation.
You will recall that Reno Omokri said Bill gates was vindicated when the road closure was announced in Lagos due to Buhari’s visit.