God will judge NigeriaSIR: I am Rev. Bunmi Olusona, a personal friend and brother to the late Paul Abayomi Ogundeji. Between 1989/90 academic session at the University of Ibadan when I was elected as the President of the University of Ibadan Student Union, late Paul Abayomi Ogundeji was elected Public Relations Officer of the union, this afforded me the opportunity to be very close to him and other members of his family back at Ogbomosho.After graduating from the University of Ibadan, we were living together at Egbeda/Akowonjo area of Lagos State before I travelled out of Nigeria in 1996. If 'Yomi' as we his friends call him were to be alive today, he probably would be the one to edit/proof read this press statement for me. I have followed his progress as a journalist right from when he took up employment wit the 'Third Eye' and later 'The Guardian Newspaper', The Punch', The Comet', he was briefly appointed to This Day editorial board.I have one thing to say, Yomi did not deserve to die the kind of death he died. During the Babangida misrule, he was the voice of our union and that of many voiceless Nigerians trying as it were to expose the decadence and total lack of direction our country was been force to go through. Yomi was a young man who came from a very humble background who endured so much hardship to attain this height, whatever he achieved was not because of any connections or one godfather somewhere but by the Grace of God, his brilliance and hard work.This guy suffered, I mean really suffered to get to where he got to.The truth is that we are not running a country, we are running corruption and confusion. I was discussing with an Irish friend who told me he had been to Lagos and called it the world headquarter of confusion. Why would there not be confusion as more that 70 per cent of the people recruited to the Nigeria police were either former armed robbers or former area boys, many more have been lured into it. Our politicians are the most corrupt and wicked political elite you will ever find or come across in your life, rather than stressing to find solution to the nation's problems, they are busy grabing whatever they can and displaying lavish wealth where they can and creating massive social problems to the chagrin of us all.Many of the so-called thieving governors are walking tall and freely everywhere and the populace has been held captive by all kinds of societal problems you can ever think about. Every one has become his own Local Government, you generate your own electricity, water, etc. Our leaders past and present should hang their heads in shame! God almighty will demand the blood of this innocent young man from our elected leaders beginning from President Yar'Adua to the Governors and the so-called law enforcers.Our law enforcement agents are beggars in the daytime and armed robbers at night! What can we do now other than for the true friends of the late Yomi to come together and see what difference we can make in the lives of his loved ones he left behind.Bunmi Olusona,Republic of Ireland
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