Yesterday I was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Award (PhD) for the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. I also emerged the Overall Winner for the Outstanding PhD Award for the University of Texas at Dallas. 🥇🎉
NDLEA came to Makoko yesterday evening trying to arrest some drug dealers.
They got to a street before mine in rage, made everyone run helter-skelter with some leaving their wares behind.
They finally targeted someone or two, but they ran away with help from some big boys Tout in the area who didn’t want them to arrest anyone. So they fought them while the targeted boys ran away.
While they were leaving, they saw an Aboki caring for his goods who stubbornly refused to run and was the only one in the empty street.
They shot the Aboki fruit seller (he was one of my favourite fruit seller) on his forehead and he died instantly.
His name was Muhammed.
They shot him just because he didn’t run like the others. It was an hour to Iftar.
They shot him and immediately ran away. He did them nothing.
I don’t know if it was his stubbornness that killed him or the fact that Nigeria is just an uncultured place where armed forces can shoot anyone they deem fit.
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