Shame On us All

I cannot claim to be privy to anymore information than everyone already has.

My heart goes out to the family of the deceased and I hope they find fortitude for the loss of their breadwinner.

But this young lady here! As a father my heart aches to see her in this distress and mess. I've seen the gruesome comments on social media. This wasnt just an event, she arrived here. This has been building up. This person has committed an act that may not describe who she really might be.

I hear stories young ladies from challenged backgrounds share with me. It takes grace and unusual class for many girls to stay off the Aristo-highway- especially those who have the dilemma of being endowed by nature beautifully on one hand and yet raised and socialised in poverty on the other.

I am not excusing her behaviour, i am only asking society to reflect on the deeper malaise that is eating up the soul of the society and turning the streets into breeding grounds for rapists, drug addicts, cultists, murderers, many of whom are only babies .

This shames us all. Shame to those philandering sugar daddies with morbid libidos, who exploit girls for sexual favours rather than provide scholarships and support.

Shame to the police who violated this girl's rights and put her in front of a ravenous media grunting for spoil.

Shame on all the institutions of state and religion who failed young people like her. The lack of humanity in those institutions and their policies has failed a generation- No student loans, no scholarships, no safe spaces, no welfare/social security programmes, nothing. All we have is the grasslands of the savannahs where you eat or get eaten.

Justice will be served and she will take responsibility for her actions because in the end she failed herself as well. But in her judgement, we all stand indicted.

Dont wait for a scandal to erupt and give transducers and fly-by-night jury of social media a field day. Pay attention to young people in your community today .

Johnson Abali

All girls whose fathers failed..ends in the hands of sugar daddies.
Hustle hard for ur kids.
Only few are influenced by bad company.

Oga keep all the shame abeg, I have no hand in this.

We have all failed