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Silence is the enemy

Feyisetan Akeeb
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Silence is the enemy when you keep quiet against human rights violations in your communities and don’t confront it. Silence is the enemy when you keep quiet against bad governance in your communities.

Silence is the enemy when you keep quiet against injustices committed by security agencies, political leaders, community leaders and the elites in your communities.

Silence is the enemy when you know those who sell hard drugs destroying the lives of the youth in your community and say nothing about it.

Silence is the enemy when you know criminals who commit atrocities in your community and do nothing about it.

Silence is the enemy when you know corrupt colleagues in the civil service and do nothing to stop it.

Silence is the enemy when you know staffers in court who collect illegal fees for affidavits and oaths and do nothing about it.

Silence is the enemy when you know police stations across the 36 states and 774 local government areas of Nigeria that collect money for bail that is not accounted for and you keep quiet as an officer of the law.

Silence is the enemy when you engage in corruption as a civil servant or in the private sector.

Silence is the enemy when you can’t speak truth to power because those in power are of your ethnic group or share religious affiliation.

Silence is the enemy when you can’t summon the courage to hold your political leaders accountable. Silence is the enemy when you know lecturers who demand sex from students or collect money to pass students and you don’t report them.

Silence is the enemy why the Nigeria of your dream hasn’t come to reality because you remain silent and refuse to confront it.

Feyisetan Akeeb, [email protected]

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