YOBE, Nigeria — A RIVER OF DEATH has swallowed innocent lives in a HORRIFYING maritime catastrophe that exposes a government’s NEGLECT and a community left to DIE. This is not just an accident; it’s a SYSTEMIC FAILURE of criminal proportions.
A CRAMMED, likely UNSEAWORTHY vessel, overloaded with over FIFTY market-goers and farmers, was sent to a watery grave on the Yobe River Saturday night. WHILE OFFICIALS SLEPT, local volunteers are now left to fish out the corpses of their neighbors. The official death toll of 25 is a LIE—with 14 souls still missing, the true horror is yet to be fully counted.
WHERE ARE THE SAFETY PATROLS? WHERE IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE? This community, abandoned by the state, is forced to risk their lives on dilapidated boats for basic commerce. The “ongoing search and rescue” is a DAMNING INDICTMENT of a system that waits for tragedy to strike before springing into action.
Every body pulled from these murky waters is a testament to a value system that has deemed these lives EXPENDABLE. This is what happens when human beings are treated as mere CARGO. The next victims are already boarding another doomed boat, because nothing will change. We are all complicit in this ongoing disaster.
Author: Kayitsi.com
