Punch
Those who counsel Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, appear to have failed to appreciate the all-time wisdom of the first principle, whereby you deal with issues from the most foundational, to the next, and the next ad infinitum.
Though the Yoruba approach it from the opposite end, by saying you should sort many trees that fall on each other from the one at the top of the heap, then the next, and then the next, ad infinitum, the idea is essentially the same. It’s still about the first principle.
The peace walk proposed by Governor Sanwo-Olu reminds one of “I Spit On Your Grave,” the title of the movie about the woman who retaliated by hunting down, one after the other, all the four men that gang-raped her.
For Sanwo-Olu to think that by abdicating responsibility by parrying 14 of the recommendations of the #EndSARS Judicial Panel of Inquiry that he set up to the Federal Government, rejecting one, modifying six and accepting 11, he has fulfilled all righteousness to advocate a peace walk, “ko jo rara,” it’s nowhere in the ballpark.
It’s like approbation and reprobation, where the same deed is accepted and rejected, something that Scottish law forbids. Bayo Oluwasanmi is concerned that “after (Governor Sanwo-Olu) bluntly declared that no one was killed at Lekki (Tollgate), he invited youths for a ‘Walk for Peace.”
He adds: “After he ordered (sic) the killings of peaceful youth protesters at Lekki, he said he would lead the ‘Peace Walk’ to bring healing to the land.” Then he asked rhetorically, “Really? Healing to the Land? How?”
Though Attorney Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, member of the judicial panel, acknowledges that Lagos State Government has no statutory control over the military, he insisted that “Lagos State Government dithered when it came to compensation of victims of brutality by soldiers, apparently because it was connected to the (shooting) incident at the Lekki Tollgate.”
