While we were celebrating yesterday with the Queen of the United Kingdom on her Diamond Jubilee reign over the country, news filtered in at around 3:43 pm of a Dana plane crash in Nigeria and the news has since saddened our hearts, brought tears to our eyes and indeed changed our lives.
The realities of the world we live in is that there is no integrity in the hearts of men and particularly Nigerian office holders. From the news that has gone around, it has unfortunately been confirmed that the Dana Aircraft that crashed and killed all the passengers and crew members on board has a history of having faults in the past few weeks and beyond that, a history from its manufacturers and previous owners (Alaskan Airlines).
In July 2011 News of the World became involved in a phone hacking scandal and in the wake of the allegations, the Chairman of its Parent company James Murdoch announced that due to the increasingly damaging allegations against the paper which are shocking and hugely regrettable, the paper would be closing down. It is rather noteworthy that at the time the Chairman made the decision, they had not been indicted by any committee or court but the organization took responsibility for its actions, closed its 168year old business with integrity and tried to right its wrong.
In 2007, a Chinese national named Zheng Xiaoyu, who was the Director of the Republic of China's State Food and Drug Safety Administration was executed for accepting bribes in return for approving medicines with deadly side effects.
Last week in Ghana, while a march was on at the National Stadium, there was a power outage, which affected the stadium and the Regional Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana was instantly fired for the lights out.
It is rather unfortunate that "someone, somewhere" certified that Aircraft air-worthiness and allowed its commercial usage in Nigeria's airspace and they are yet to take responsibility and vacate office neither has the president sacked or asked someone to resign.
We do not want our leaders to cry, we need some of them to vacate office and allow competent individuals to take the position.
I need everyone who thinks public officers should be held accountable and who agrees with me that Nigerians do not need to die needlessly because of people's negligence and failures to go and sign the petition on http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/call-for-resignation-of-the-director-of-ncaa-and-the-ni.html
Thank you all,
Tola Elesho.
1 comment:
"We do not want our leaders to cry, we need some of them to vacate office and allow competent individuals to take the position" And that is exactly what we need. Jesus wept. And then he took action immediately. The President should take a cue from that.
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