Obi denounces killing of teacher abducted by bandits, elderly woman raped to death
Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC) Chieftain, Mr. Peter Obi, has denounced the “brutal killing” of one of the teachers abducted by bandits that attacked some schools in Oyo State as well as the alleged “horrific rape” to death of an elderly woman as “signs of deeper moral and social decay.”
Mr. Obi, the 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), and a frontline presidential aspirant said in a post on his X platform that the two incidents are among events that “shatter a society so deeply that words are no longer enough to express the shock.”
The former governor of Anambra State, in the post titled “A Nation Losing Its HUMANITY,” insisted that Nigerians “must demand accountability and urgent systemic change” for such tragedies, noting that “if such atrocities no longer move us to action, then we risk losing our shared humanity.”
He asked rhetorically: “How did we get here? How did we reach a point where teachers are hunted and killed, and the elderly—custodians of memory and wisdom—suffer such dehumanising violence?”
Obi pointed out that “this is more than a security crisis; it is a failure of collective humanity. We have become desensitised, consuming tragedy briefly and moving on, allowing indifference to normalise the unacceptable.”
He commiserated with the families affected by the tragedies, saying: “I share in your grief,” but insisted that “grief alone is not enough,” and stressing the need for accountability and urgent systemic change.
