Hardball
When does a massacre dawn first, then you scramble for dead bodies and hewn limbs, later?
When, at Lekki, frenzied e-activists conjure their worst visions! It was a massacre of common sense, that would have been so comic were it not so tragic!
Just as well the US Department of State just blasted the last bit of that costly fiction. That was reminiscent of the Yoruba quip that it takes only a second for truth to tower over fibs, in the air for eons.
In its 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria, the United States declared there were no verifiable evidence on the reported slaughter, by Nigerian soldiers, that moved in to break up curfew-busting protesters, at the Lekki tollgate, on 20 October 2020.
But really: must it take a yearly US report to prove what, ab initio, was an out and out fraud? Its comical conjuring was well and truly benumbing.
One after the other, celebrities, many of them part of the crowd of protesters, were declared massacred, in the rich imaginations of some e-activists, who live and die in their e-world, with absolutely no reference to the real world.
And sure as the day follows the night, each and every of the “massacred” celebrities resurrected in the real world, but were somewhat not offended, nay felt almost honoured, to have been “massacred”, by the phantom claim.
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Hardball remembers clearly the reaction of Eniola Badmus, of the film, Omo Ghetto fame. She said though she was proudly part of the protests, she was kilometres away from the Lekki tollgate site, on the “massacre” night.
Of course, despite all the denials, a massacre was decreed and so a massacre it must be. DJ Switch, a start-up music act-turned-wannabe activist, screeched the first hot lie.
Then, she rushed off to Canada to seek political asylum from political prosecution at home. The Canadians swallowed the crap. But perhaps Switch really needed an asylum switch, over the Atlantic. Really, spewing and spinning such colorful lies border on suspect mental health.
Then Amnesty International (AI) jumped into the fray, manufacturing 10 dead, in the first instance, in its fretful imaginations! Now, doesn’t AI itself need realtime amnesty, for pushing brazen lies on the spur, because such conform to its bigoted mindset? It would recant much later, when it was clear the so-called massacre was a rich fib.
Then Nima Elbagir, the CNN Sudanese reporter, galloped into town with her own version of massacre-sans-back-up-videos, even if CNN is the globe’s preeminent video news channel. The body language of the CNN report: even if there was no massacre, there must be one, now that CNN had decreed it!
When challenged for conclusive proof, CNN only responded with a technical report, telling probable stories of bullet kinetics! Days later, however, CNN quietly backed off, after “standing by our story” — their fiction, they meant — but without any apologies for misleading millions of viewers with such unfazed whim and arrogance.
But even with all of these, cyber-soldiers, fighting malice in the public space, continue to pour e-malice of their own — “Lekki massacre”, willy-nilly! But don’t expect the US Department of State report would shut them up. They are far too gone in their e- and cyber-delusion.
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