“Onyeaka Ozioma Elizabeth was spotted in the premises of the Federal High Court, Abuja and she informed me that she was arrested at 33 Onitsha, Anambra State over 5 years and 3 months ago by the DSS and dumped in WAWA MILITARY DETENTION CENTER IN KAINJI, NIGER STATE WITHOUT ACCESS TO HER FAMILY or lawyer. Her sister, whose phone number Ozioma Elizabeth gave to me when contacted could not believe that Ozioma Elizabeth was still alive until she saw this video. What manner of trial or justice can come from such illegal and dehumanizing detention? See fear written all over her face. Brought from Anambra to KAINJI, NIGER STATE, to Abuja; towns and cities she has never been to and away from everything that she knows, to face trial. Trial for being Biafran? Why nobody has ever faced trial for being Oduduwa and certainly none will ever face trial for being Arewa. Nigeria, a country of injustice.” - By Barr. Nnaemeka.
By Making Excuses for Unverified Certificates, We Are Planting Poison in the Soul of Our Society
A nation that tolerates unverified academic credentials at any level of leadership, regardless of who is involved, risks destroying the very standards upon which a society is built. The issue is not about an individual. It is about standards, accountability, and the values we choose to pass on to the next generation.
We cannot continue to excuse blurred, missing, questionable, or unverified credentials simply because they belong to someone we support. The process through which people attain positions of responsibility matters greatly. How we get into leadership is as important as what we do with leadership.
If we normalise the abandonment of basic verification today, tomorrow we may have professors who never attended a university, doctors who never studied medicine, and judges who never studied law.
That is the dangerous precedent we must never allow. Nigeria cannot sacrifice its future on the altar of today's transactional politics. We must build a society where truth is not partisan, standards are not negotiable, and accountability applies equally to everyone.
History will judge us not only by those we defended, but by the principles we were willing to defend. We must choose truth over convenience, standards over sentiments, and the future over political expediency.
A New Nigeria is possible, but only if we are willing to do the right thing, even when it is inconvenient. -PO
“People say Igbo people love money. Okay, money, let me send you to the people that love you.
Money, go to the people that love you. Igbo people, anywhere you are, receive money!
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