It’s been a sad and shocking 24 hours for us all. When the news made its way on to social media it first sounded fake. Then the official organs confirmed it and we’ve all been left shaking our heads in disbelief. Then the conspiracy theorists began to yarn their plots and sub plots. Try as they may nothing has really stuck. A Biafran site even had the photo of a similar aircraft with a dark package stuck underneath the aircraft carriage. Obviously photoshopped. Unfortunately the internet conmen behind the photo were in such a hurry to spin the story of a bomb explosion onboard the aircraft, they did not study the photograph enough. The Nigerian officers in the photo were disembarking and not embarking on the photoshopped, “bomb strapped’ aircraft. They ought to post something a little more convincing. It is unfortunate that some Nigerians think this man was eliminated, these same Nigerians have rejected the official line about bad weather. Nothing you say will convince them - the man was eliminated - simple. But something even more disturbing got me thinking today. Has it occurred to us what would have happened if this man had been a Southerner - a Yoruba man , Edo, Igbo, Ijaw or an Ibibio man? Our current agitators, majority made up of conspiracy theorists would have gone into a violent war dance. They would have fanned ethnic embers into huge roaring flames. “The Fulani occupiers have eliminated our own”, would have been their chants. Therefore I am compelled to ask these ones, “Did the Fulani occupiers therefore eliminate their own handpicked Northern military appointee?” Why have they kept quiet about this? In Nigeria we fanatically believe in God but reject, simple unexplained ‘Acts of God’. Simple Accidents. There must be something behind it. It is too simple and too natural. Acts of God are mysteries that demand investigation in Nigeria. And even when we say the mystery has been solved - there remains layers of conspiracies that remain unsolved. I have had to come to the conclusion that the Nigerian mind is unnaturally convoluted. I am myself sometimes guilty. Conspiracies hide behind every green leave and under every rock. And this has fuelled our paranoia, our superstition and suspicion across tribes. Deep in the Nigerian psyche is a deep mistrust about everything, except maybe the air we breathe. Could this be the influence of culture? In some parts of Nigeria you don’t accept a drink in your brother’s house until your brother or trusted friend has poured the drink into your empty cup and drunk out of it. In my place the act is called, “Removing the witchcraft or poison”. I say the witchcraft is not in the drink but in our minds. Is our local culture steeped in mistrust, that our perception is distorted and this might explain why we are the number one conspiracy capital of the world. We are easy prey to people who play on our minds. For example there are some reading this who still believe the man in Aso Rock is a surgically enhanced Sudanese. It’s funny but such mindset is tragic. Can we therefore simply believe that the aircraft flew into bad weather and was diverted from a military strip to a civilian airport- where it struggled to land and unfortunately crashed. May we be delivered from conspiratorial minds and allow the dead rest in peace. The bereaved deserve an uncluttered space to mourn..

Nigeria is being fukd in the missionary position without being wet. You know how devastating it can be, the reason Nigeria can never progress again.

Fuk the Nigerian soldiers and police

In conclusion Nigeria is run and ruled by northerners,so what's our place here? I'm not going to be surprised if the next COAS is a northerner it has always been the modus operandi of Buhari.

I like the attitude of Northerners for not believing in all kind of superstition & unnecessary accusations that can lead to tension. If Gen. Attahiru is a Southerner, the media outlets would have flooded with nonsense accusations that Fulani govt have killed their own, sending letters to UN, AUN, EU disgracing the sovereignty of our Nation.
I remembered, the incident involving a Christian NAF pilot in Kaduna who was killed by Christian fellow on her visit to Igbo woman but still CAN, sociocultural groups and some important dignitaries tried to change the narration.
To some people education is still far away from revolutionising their culture & conscience!