Episode 11 - ‘Yemi Akinbulumo on Ending SARS and Other Indignities
It is hard to believe that a whole year has gone by since infamy attempted to rob Nigeria of both youth and optimism.
A pandemic has ravaged the world, claiming almost 5 million lives. Yet the intervention of scientific research has yielded vaccines which will pave the way to a safer life.
Battles have been fought on rough terrain and in slick boardrooms; wars lost and won and still raging. Yet, there are glimpses of better to come.
If only we could say the same.
Traditionally sunny dispositions have been worn away - emery sanding down our frayed and tired flesh until even our bones are ready to succumb to the inevitable.
Just twenty days after the de rigueur pomp and splendour of an independence anniversary, we are, for all that, mocked, silenced, and oppressed at every turn.
If this is the price of resilience, please keep it. It is assuming parallels with turmoil that are simply too hard to bear.
Dictators? Two-a-penny.
I choose the peace of liberty along with the fear and reverence of God.
No nation ever suffered for keeping Him in the mix.
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I will take revenge and be satisfied. In due time their foot will slip, because their day of disaster is near. Their doom is coming quickly.
He who has ears to hear, let him be listening and let him consider and perceive and comprehend by hearing.
💬 Oche Otorkpa - Doctor • Author • Public Health Broadcaster
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