To mourn the death of someone is not a crime but it is when the death of ONE reputable elite is given weight much more than the death of hundreds others massacred in single swoop in different locations by cattle rustlers. Such selective mourning depicting heartlessness and despicable sycophancy is clearly shown by Zamfara Radio which for three days has been mourning the demise of Umaru Shinkafi, with spiritual songs, putting a halt to all its programmes.
How on earth is the life of such an elite better than the lives of 79 people killed at 'Yar Galadima village or the 42 peasants lynched at Gidan Kaso village, or the 48 people slain at Kizara village and several other places in the state!
I wonder if the lives of these people are not worth mourning! It is disheartening that social or political status is unashamedly taken as determining factor for the value of human life. Come to think of it, what would any sane man expect of a sentuagenarian hitting close to 80 years old if not the natural withering of the body and the ultimate demise? Now, compare this with the loss of muscled-bodied youths who as rustic farmers and cattle herders have been feeding the people of the cities with the toil of their own hands.
In the house of empty skulls called Zamfara Radio, humanity is trampled by the hordes of boot-licking ignoramuses and chattering baboons who never tell a leader to mind his path in any of their editorial. The only thing they are good at is spewing balderdash coated in lies upon lies to serve their masters for cheap scores. It is obvious that Sokoto shares the painful bereavement owing to Umaru Shinkafi’s royal, marital and residential relation with the state, yet Rima Radio didn’t spend three days mourning. The deceased relation with Sokoto seemed to have even outweighed that of Zamfara, the fact acknowledged by the President Buhari via his spokesman Femi Adesina, who only condoled and commiserated with the people of Sokoto and not Zamfara.
How on earth is the life of such an elite better than the lives of 79 people killed at 'Yar Galadima village or the 42 peasants lynched at Gidan Kaso village, or the 48 people slain at Kizara village and several other places in the state!
I wonder if the lives of these people are not worth mourning! It is disheartening that social or political status is unashamedly taken as determining factor for the value of human life. Come to think of it, what would any sane man expect of a sentuagenarian hitting close to 80 years old if not the natural withering of the body and the ultimate demise? Now, compare this with the loss of muscled-bodied youths who as rustic farmers and cattle herders have been feeding the people of the cities with the toil of their own hands.
In the house of empty skulls called Zamfara Radio, humanity is trampled by the hordes of boot-licking ignoramuses and chattering baboons who never tell a leader to mind his path in any of their editorial. The only thing they are good at is spewing balderdash coated in lies upon lies to serve their masters for cheap scores. It is obvious that Sokoto shares the painful bereavement owing to Umaru Shinkafi’s royal, marital and residential relation with the state, yet Rima Radio didn’t spend three days mourning. The deceased relation with Sokoto seemed to have even outweighed that of Zamfara, the fact acknowledged by the President Buhari via his spokesman Femi Adesina, who only condoled and commiserated with the people of Sokoto and not Zamfara.
