There’s famine in the land. I don’t know the value of what the organisers planned to share, but I don’t think the value would be so much that families would be happy to make their kids go through that kind of food-sharing hassle.
35kids with limitless potentials died of hunger not stampede, the govt should take note. The law may succeed in convicting the organisers, which may be a solace to those who’ve lost their loved ones in the tragic event, but it might not make much difference if the government doesn’t realise that hunger killed those children not Oriyomi and Naomi.
There’s famine in the land. I don’t know the value of what the organisers planned to share, but I don’t think the value would be so much that families would be happy to make their kids go through that kind of food-sharing hassle. I heard some families slept the venue with their kids, which implies that they had not even had breakfast when they started wrestling to get food.
“Regularly worrying about where your next meal will come from has the ability to cause mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and even posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).” - Tori Waite & Olivia Thoelke. Studies have shown that hunger drops brain capacity to function properly.
Bringing thousands of hungry people together in a place without firm crowd control measures is as good as collecting different wild animals into a single space to feed them. It’s definitely a chaos. Olori and Hamzat should have paid more attention on providing safety and spend less on awareness.
As a matter of fact, the awareness was more than what should go into a charitable programme. We can’t say sorry to people who lost 35kids, it’s not about the intention of the organisers right now, it’s the actual action that were taken to put such number of persons in a sorry state.
Law is not emotion, the organisers have questions to answer, unfortunately. While we have the organisers to blame for negligence, the people who killed those kids are Seyi Makinde, Tinubu and every single person in government who knows there’s hunger and has done nothing to deal with it.
The people in government must wake up to see that there’s hunger. If they keep fooling around, it would be too late at the time they’re up to see that we’ve been seating on a gun powder.