During the week I took ill and decided to seek for medical attention, on my way I stumbled on one of my lecturers who just hit an okada driver who also happened to be an acquaintance. The situation was so bad that despite the jeans trouser the okada man was putting on,the crowd could clearly see a dying man with cut all over his belly and his testicles peeping out of its sac and blood stains all over the guys body with various deep cuts. The clinic we rushed him to (Jaja Clinic in the university of Ibadan) couldn't give him pain relief injections or first aid. After the doctors wasted quality time waring gloves and aimlessly walking around doing nothing they finally pronounced he has been referred to The University teaching hospital(UCH).
So basically what am trying to say here is these are the things we face as "common man" on the daily. As citizens or as youth despite the fact that we do not have a place in the National budget we can't access health facilities too. Don't be surprised the okada guy in question is a Graduate and the question you would ask is "what the heck" is he doing on a "sunny bloody thursday" in the busy city of Ibadan when he can conveniently be at work in he's office or in he's work place trying to be productive. A BIG SHAME ON YOU AND I if we continue to allow our leaders distribute okada's and keke and make them believe they are doing us a favour or empowering us.
And in the words of beautiful Nubia one day the table would turn.
Ehis Abuya
National coordinator
(Lagos inauguration is top on our agenda now-10 and 11 january 2014 mass rally and loud awareness let's us all be part of it)
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