Dear God

Dear God,

The fact that the Nigeria Police is deeply messed up cannot possibly be news to any human being, so I believe you already know it. After all, it was on pages of the newspaper I work with only a few days ago that we reported to the public that there was a corpse in front of the Lagos Force Headquarters, and nothing was done about it. It later emerged that the poor bloke had actually been lain there for a very, very long time before he gave up and passed away, in front of Kam Salem House. May You receive the poor geezer into Your bosom.

What annoyed me about the reaction of the public to the story when it was published on NEXT's website was the seeming levity with which quite a lot of the respondents treated it. I mean, some nits even had the guts to ask our reporter what he did? He did his job, and reported the gross incompetence of our police forces. But in any event, my prayer for them is for another day, and I would pray that You visit Your wrath upon such people, but please hold that for now, I want to tell You my own story of an experience I had last night...


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