ASUU former president, Festus Iyayi, was cruelly murdered-he did not die-by a yet to be identified assassin in the employ of the Government of Kogi State.

This is the only conclusion that can be
derived from the facts provided in the
media. According to the existing facts,
while traveling along Lokoja-Abuja
road in the company of his ASUU
comrades on their way to Kano to discuss the current strike issue,
an escort car in the convoy of the
Governor of Kogi State, Mr Idris Wada,
rammed into the ASUU bus killing
Iyayi and injuring some lecturers.

It is difficult to accept the wasting of
one of Africa’s most cerebral and
committed scholars by a reckless
driver who probably assumed that
because he was ‘privileged’ to be in a
Governor’s convoy he was abovetraffic regulations and other users of the
road, including even his intellectual
superiors.

The murder of Comrade Iyayi is no
doubt a product of the empty
pomposity that pervades the corridors
of power in Nigeria, from the
Governors to their cooks.

This pomposity is seen in a culture of
impunity and recklessness that gives
them the sense that they own our
lives, and all that belongs to this
country.

Killings on the road by those who occupy government houses must stop.

It is a shame that it appears that the
Governor of that State lacks the
capacity to prevent his drivers from
negligent driving, otherwise his
convoy should not have been involved
in another accident so soon after the tragic accident that claimed the life of
his ADC just in December 2012.

It may well be that his drivers expect
that the only way they can please a
former pilot, that he is, is to literally
fly on the road. Whatever the case may be, the Governor bears responsibility for the
murder of one of the most
outstanding Nigerian residents.

He has to pay for this anyway.

Of course na. Everybody knws he was murdered. Or who doesn't knw? How do you explain how a car that shuld be in a convoy suddenly jump out and massacre baba. Abegi,we don grow pass dat level. Clearly a murder case.

My people, it is high time we learn hw to say de bitter truth and call a spade a spade, This is purely an "ex-tra judicial killing" de governor and others at large shuld be ment to face de rot of de law. Dey are assasines in desguise.

This is why immunity clause should be done away with.