After several failed attempts to locate the female GSM recharge cards vendor whom we normally patronise at Mende Market, we learnt that she had been stabbed by her brother and locked up in her bedroom in a pool of her own blood to die a slow and painful death. The brother was eventually arrested. The two siblings were the only offspring of their old and widowed mother.
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Too much blood is spilled on our lands; one would wonder if we are at war. Armed robbery attacks, kidnapping, assassinations, incidents of violence against women, terrorist attacks, communal clashes, religious clashes, incidents of lynching, police brutality and killings, road accidents, plane crashes, ritual killings, etc all involve shedding blood.
At the rate we are going, Nigerian males may soon be classified as endangered species. Every violent attack in Nigeria cuts short young men in their prime.
The current trend implies that wives are made widows, wives to be are denied marriage, children are made orphans, mothers and fathers are made to bury their sons. Soon, we may suffer from shortage of men. It is very negative for the population of a nation to be predominantly female or the aged. This is the ultimate result of all the long stories that Nigerians have been telling. The Nigerian male is no longer safe; no matter his religion or philosophy towards life.
This matter should not be reduced to elements of political excuses; we cannot blame the government alone for failure to protect the Nigerian male from impending extinction. What Nigeria is faced with is the manifestation of seeds sown many years ago that have come to maturity.
Parents have effectively transferred the upbringing of their children to teachers and house helps. The art of raising children has long been discounted and reduced to the level of feeding, ensuring good academic results and providing comfort and entertainment for children. Parents who were taught to ‘love their neighbours as themselves’ have failed to impart the same culture to their children. Young Nigerians have lost touch with true African values. Rather, they are a pot-pourri of assortment of cultures, traditions and values.
Religious organisations and leaders should hide their heads in shame because many young men who perpetrate evil are known to belong to one religious organisation or the other; so what are they teaching there? Nigerians are deeply religious people and yet kill each other with an equally deep passion.
Every Nigerian male should be made aware of the fact that they are subject to an evil scheme to rob them of life and their visions. Nigerian males must learn very early that they are endangered; and self-preservation is what they must aim to achieve by securing knowledge and applying wisdom and caution in all their dealings with fellow human beings.
-Matilda Orhewere
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