Politics | A PEEP INTO THE MENTALITY OF NIGERIA RULING CLASS THRU EKWEREMMADU'S WINDOW.
A PEEP INTO THE MENTALITY OF NIGERIA RULING CLASS THRU EKWEREMMADU'S WINDOW.
Ekweremadu's daughter Sonia has three siblings with six kidneys and two parents with four kidneys who all by virtue of their familial ties offers more probability of one them being a matching donor to Sonia. Together they have five pairs of kidney, a whooping 10 pieces of kidneys to choose from.
Ekweremmadu refused to donate, his wife also refused to donate, Sonia's two brothers equally refused to donate and most heart breaking, her only sister also said no.
The big question now begging for an answer here is; why did they all fail to donate a kidney to save one of their own and the simple answer is that they value their lives, their lives were of immense value to them that they dare not tamper with it, but David's life can be tampered with.
The only crime that David committed that made his life tamper-able is being poor, yes it's a crime to be poor in Nigeria, in Nigeria being poor stripes you of your dignity and rights as a citizen, denies you your government's protection and now we just found out with this shocking and crude incident that the your right to life can be denied you at will if you are poor in Nigeria.
Ekweremmadu and his family knew the danger inherent in kidney transplant procedure and they equally knew the danger of living with one kidney, the very reason they all shied away from donating theirs.
What they could not do themselves, they enticed and cajoled an innocent poor boy, who only wants a better live for himself, knowing he lacks options and when they discovered that he is not a matching donor for their daughter, in keeping with Nigeria's political class culture of use and dump, they tried to do just that, to bundle him back to Nigeria and dump him, having found that he is of no use to them. If this Is not the height of wickedness, I wonder what is.
Now spare a thought for David; he is a human being just like the Ekweremmadu's but the circumstances he found himself in made him a lesser being to them, so much so that they where ready to sacrifice his life for ten pieces of sliver, if not that they see him as a sacrificial lamb, why couldn't Ekweremmadu resettle David in the UK for at least making an effort? This question I will leave to your conscience.
Before you rush to Ekweremmadu's defense to promote the sentimental narrative of a father trying to save his daughter, think of David, he also have family, think of what could've been and also think of the inhuman treatment that would've been his lot had things not taken a different turn. However you look at it, the criminal here is Sen. Ike Ekweremmadu!
I have nothing but sympathy for Sonia and pray that God would intervene and provide a donor for her, what is happening, that is now jeopardizing her life further is no fault of hers but that of her family. Her father failed her, her mother failed her and her siblings failed her.
