Aregbesola Weeps Over Killing Of School Children In Yobe

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola could not hide his sorrow as he wept over the killing of some school children by insurgents in Yobe State.

The Governor, who delivered a lecture titled ‘Federalism, democracy and the future of Nigeria,’ during the Convocation Lecture and 66^th Foundation Day Ceremony, University of Ibadan on Tuesday, said Nigeria should be mourning by now.

“It is unfortunate that even if we should ask ourselves what the mood of the nation should be now, we do not know. Nigeria should be mourning by now. Nigeria’s flag must fly at half-mast now. We should be wearing mournful look and ask ourselves how we got to be where we are now.

“Fifty of our schoolchildren and teachers were killed in a suicide attack yesterday (Monday) in Potiskum and we act as if it is normal. We don’t even have the feeling anymore, the conscience, the emotion and the fact that the only thing we have is life. 

“I will not be where I am today if I had been slaughtered like that in school. That is just one of the statistics. In the same Yobe, some students were slaughtered at night while in Borno, schoolgirls were taken away and yet to be found or returned.

“Territories of Nigeria are being paraded by lunatics, mad men, who could not be called normal human beings. Yet, we carried on as if all these do not matter. We have forgotten that whatever is happening to a neighbour is a sign of what could come to others.”