Most of us might not know where Damboa is, but most of us
who’d been keeping up with the News and latest happenings lately should. But
for a reminder, and bringing you up to date, Damboa is a local government in
Borno state, where it was reported and awashed in the news some times late last
year that members of the Islamic Sect, Boko Haram ran riot, slaughtering
soldiers and the inhabitants of the place and completely taking over and
burning the town down as it is their custom.
So when Rex, (Not real name) a child hood friend, and a year
my senior in secondary school posted in his FB time line that he’s on his way
to Damboa, we all in our old boys association prayed, and wished him well, while
he go to fight for me and you, and our country. So I’m using this exalted
platform, Friends of Naija (FON) blogspot to canvassed for more prayers for our
Rex and all the other gallants and patriotic soldiers, who’re putting their
lives on the line to push the terrorist back and to stop their continuous
advancement, to where they’ll get to us in Abuja and Lagos.
With a heavy hard and apprehension, I’d simply commented and
pleaded with him to avoid trying to be a ‘Commando or a Rambo’, which I know we
all love to, but to be careful and stay and return back to us alive. I told him
categorically that we need men, not heroes. Incidentally Rex’s father, like
mine and others is a soldier, who died on active service since 2003, and up to
the time I was putting this texts together, Rex is not on talking terms with
his younger sister, Asabe and his mother, reason being that they believed he’d
collected their father’s gratuity and entitlement and denied them a share, being
the next of kin, while in reality as he told me, the military’s finance
department/ authority haven’t paid him after several attempt and pursuing it
and risking being fired from his job.
How much more can a country demand from a young man? How
much more would they continue to ask Nigerian youth to contribute? Have we not
contributed enough, while they continue to mismanaged our collective common
wealth?
Drop me a line and I’ll tell you more about Rex’s
predicament, but for the mean time, pray that he comes back alive, along all
the other Soldiers.
God bless Nigeria!
God bless our military!
And may God bless and grant them victory over the evil
forces fighting against our country in all front!
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