By Josef Omortionmwan
THERE has just been a major re-enactment of the Amakiri Episode of 1975. Amakiri was a practicing journalist in the then Rivers State, when on the orders of the Military Governor of the State, Commander Alfred Diete Spiff, he was thoroughly flogged and his hair shaved perhaps with pieces of broken bottles.
THERE has just been a major re-enactment of the Amakiri Episode of 1975. Amakiri was a practicing journalist in the then Rivers State, when on the orders of the Military Governor of the State, Commander Alfred Diete Spiff, he was thoroughly flogged and his hair shaved perhaps with pieces of broken bottles.
Some 37 years later, the Business Manager of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, Gwiwa Business Unit, Sokoto State, Moses Osigwe, an engineer, has just been flogged by Governor Aliyu Wamakko, for failing to provide light to his community.
The world is still one of different strokes for different folks. There were similarities, though. Both victims were adult workers, husbands and fathers. But while the Amakiri incident was ....Read more...
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