A Seven-Year Old Hungry and Helpless Boy, they Lynched to Death Forwarded by Abba Gamawa

Abba Ibrahim Gamawa (16/11/16)

I have honestly been avoiding the news about the lynching of a seven-year old boy, hoping it will just fizzle away like all those senseless and unimaginable headlines we come across from mischievous media outlets like Newsrescue.

I have had to drop my phone twice opon the sight of that headlines earlier today. But I guess the savagery of Lagosians is real, thus, a seven-year old boy was truly lynched and burnt to death. Subhanallah!

From the Brexit, to the Trump thing, and now this! How the supposedly enlightened ones (we see Lagos as such in Nigeria) are displaying uncivility and even barbarity is yet another paradox of our generation we need to be mindful of.

I wouldn't even dare to compare the value of his life to the Garri (Kwaki!) he stole, for an adage says it's unfair to say a knife is shaper than a stick.

Before going further, I have to say that I don't have the vocabulary that will do justice to my sentiment at the moment, and qualify these people for who they altogether. Perhaps you could suggest one to me.

I have lived in Lagos for almost a decade now, and trust me, you don't want me to tell you how the humans here are. But to think of a seven-year old boy being lynched is not something I have ever thought their barbarity is capable of, and nay! that they unperturbedly just did!

And at this point, the memory of these same people jumping on their feet in a deeply emotional charge to call the likes of SLS names for marrying an 18 year-old lady makes it all the more appalling.

Am already numbing in disbelief as to how they couldn't at least feel, even if they couldn't think; that what could possibly make a young boy steal Garri? I bet even the dumbest human in the world would say it's hunger. And to these animals, lynching and death was all a hungry and helpless boy deserved, while those who, in a single signature, stole a ten-year worth of the Garri that will be consumed in Nigeria, they glorify. What is this?! I honestly don't know.

And the death of this boy, although very tragic and painful, will not be as tragic and painful as it will be if the government doesn't arrest these animals and give them the justice they deserve; the justice Rev. King is to receive; death by hanging.

But unlike that of Rev. King, this has to bee done quick enough to send a message that this monstrous attitude has no place in our contemporary Nigeria. I pray they act. Allah ya sawaqe. Amin.