GIVE ME A JOB, ABUJA BLAST VICTIM PLEADS WITH JONATHAN ' PERPETRATORS WON’T GO UNPUNISHED- JONATHAN
A bed-ridden victim of Wednesday’s bomb attack at the EMAB Plaza, Wuse
II Abuja, Solomon Tesso, on Friday cried out for a job from President Goodluck Jonathan during the president’s visit to the Maitama General Hospital to commiserate with survivors.
The victim, who spoke in pidgin English, told the president that he was
caught by the blast as he struggled to make ends meet by selling GSM
recharge cards, having left school years ago and unable to find a
regular job.
He said he had not been able to sleep since he was
brought to the hospital and was now agonizing over what lay ahead of
him in his present condition.
“Na recharge card I dey sell for
Banex Plaza. I no get job. See what I am going through; since yesterday I
no fit sleep. I finish school since, no job. I can’t go and steal; na
recharge card I de sell, Sir. If people can help me to start better
business, to start my life again…”
The president, however, did not respond directly to his request but only said he was happy that the victim survived the attack.
“We are happy you are alive. Thank God you are alive,” Jonathan said.
The president had cut short his trip to the 23rd Ordinary Session of
the African Union Heads of States and Governments in Malabo, Equatorial
Guinea, because of the bomb attack.
Before visiting the Maitama
General Hospital, he had inspected the scene of the blast to see things
for himself, after which he vowed that the perpetrators of the attack
would be punished.
Accompanied by the Minister of Health,
Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, and other top government officials, Jonathan
arrived there at about 11.10 a.m. and was briefed on the incident by
Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba.
Speaking
with reporters after the visits, Jonathan said the latest attack was
regrettable and painful, observing that when some Nigerians were
struggling and thinking about how to contribute to national development,
some people were planning to kill them.
He described this era
of bomb blasts and other forms of terrorism as the darkest phase of the
nation’s history, but expressed the belief that Nigeria would overcome
it.
Jonathan said: “It is quite regrettable and extremely
painful that when some Nigerians are struggling, thinking about how to
contribute to nation development, working very hard to take care of
their families and train their children, others are busy planning to
kill people, intimidate people, and destroy people’s property. It is
regrettable. It is one of the darkest phases in the history of our
nation; but surely we will get over it.”
The president appealed
to Nigerians to bear with the security forces over their various
initiatives to curtail the threat of terror.
He said, “I will
use this opportunity to continue to plead with our citizens that under
such situation, security operatives will come up with different options
that sometimes will create some inconvenience for us. Instead of
condemning them, let us bear (with them).
“We all bear some
pains, from the highest to the least, because as a president, I may not
go to everywhere I would have loved to go. These are some of the
challenges I have to face. Even for our citizens, under such condition,
we have reached some level of restrictions and some pains. Instead of
shouting and insulting security operatives, let’s give them maximum
cooperation; give them relevant information.”
Jonathan
reiterated that terrorism is not peculiar to Nigeria, as all countries
that face terror suffer the same thing. He said that citizens must
therefore give maximum cooperation to the security forces in their
effort to successfully deal with the situation.
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6/28/2014
GIVE ME A JOB, ABUJA BLAST VICTIM PLEADS WITH JONATHAN ' PERPETRATORS WON’T GO UNPUNISHED- JONATHAN
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