Gunmen opened fire
on a Deeper Life Bible Church at Otite, Okenne, Kogi State on Monday August 6,
2012, during an evening service killing 15 persons on the spot and five others
have died subsequently on their hospital beds.
Front page of “The
Punch” newspaper of Wednesday, August 8, 2012, has a picture of Governor of Kogi
State, Idris Wada, in a bulletproof vest, holding a microphone and talking to
a woman who is on a sick bed, presumably one of the injured victims of the
attack at the Okenne General Hospital, Kogi. The Governor had visited injured
victims of the attack at Okenne General Hospital on Tuesday, August 7, 2012.
I don’t want to
believe that Governor Idris Wada didn’t think of the image he will create by entering
the hospital dressed in a visible bulletproof vest to visit injured victims of
the shooting.
Can someone please ask
the governor and his aides?
Why was he wearing
a bulletproof vest? Or maybe just like
President GEJ “He doesn’t give a damn”
about the other mortals beside him and in Kogi state. Is he implying that everyone should start
going around with bullet proof vests?
Why was he using a
microphone? Is it that the injured victims need
noise? Why did the hospital authorities allow him and his entourage into the
hospital with a microphone? Maybe press briefing beside a sick bed is antidote
to gun shot wounds. What is the place of
peace, quiet and rest in a hospital environment?
MY
GROUSE
Why would a
governor go to the hospital wear a bullet proof and decide to have a press
conference using a microphone beside a sick bed!!!
The governor of
Kogi State, I am sure is educated and is aware that hospitals demand the
highest level of decorum, cleanliness and silence. Did he ever think of the
discomfort of the injured victims and other patients in the hospital?
I think the picture
is a “no-no” for the governor’s reputation.
At best he could have worn the vest as an undergarment, had his press
briefing outside the confines of the hospital. Which kain show of “superiority” is
this, so he doesn’t want to die abi? It’s like mocking the victims of
the shooting.
The picture depicts
selfishness, fear and is a classic example of man’s insensitivity to man.
