While surfing the internet, surfing to fix up my assignment with about half kilometre past my lodge, I found myself looking up to the sky...
While surfing the internet, surfing to fix up my assignment with about half kilometre past my lodge, I found myself looking up to the sky, as guns were pointed at me. He shouted, "Wetyn you dey do outside".
And immediately I thought within myself and self alone, this is just past 10a.m early hours of Saturday don't I have freedom to move around. But I remember am in my finals and dead man tell no tales.
So I sigh and threw a fake smile and replied in the language they understand best, "Oga your boy just dey surf net ni o'. All Heavenly bodies were set loose, i had more than four people searching me while there was a gun pointed directly at me as if I was taking a photoshoot and I'm to enjoy paparazzi, my heart beat faster for some reason.
Then one said, "this boy dey smoke oo, look at his lips".
Smiling I replied, "Oga I no dey smoke, the other shouted, "he is a yahoo boy!".
My phone collected and searched. At the end of the day, one just said, "leave the poor boy alone na waste of time"... That was how four vans filled up with SARS left.
In this very modern dispensation of democratic practice, all over the world, Nigeria my country seems to be moving a little bit slower than a snail. Where who is right needs to be wrong, for the fear of an armed man is the beginning of wisdom.
Where security agencies cannot be your friend but must come with force in dispensing their legal right. Arguably, the introduction of SARS curbed out a few crime, but what about the harassment of the members of societies whom are always harassed every day.
What about the common man who doesn't have a father figure to find a way when been caught. Similar occasions there have been reports of an arrest made by the SARS without thorough investigations.
Citizens have right to live in their country, to walk freely and speak freely.
Kayode Odunayo
Political science, 400l.
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