Ike Ekweremadu: May our children bury, not kill us | TheCable

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[OPINION BY MIKE OZEKHOME] Ike Ekweremadu: May our children bury, not kill us | TheCable

Why would my mother who was still alive, hale and hearty, tell me I will bury her? I can now understand. Indeed, I did bury her in a most befitting manner when she transited in 1997. May our children not kill us. May they bury us instead. Amen. Itsee. This is thus the usual prayer of parents. This has not quite worked out for the Ekweremadus.

The Ekweremadus’ nasty experience makes me really sad and sober. I can only at juncture find no consolation than the poem of Adly Guigris, in loving memory of Jackson Antonio Clark, titled: “No parent should have to bury their child”. May our children bury, not kill us.“May our children bury but not kill us” is a cheeky twist on the traditional notion of the abhorrence of parents burying their own children.

Conversely, empathy is when you feel for the person and climb down the hole to sit beside him and make yourself vulnerable so as to sincerely connect with the person in pain. In this case, you recognize the person’s struggles and pains, but cannot minimize them. My deep inner feelings for Ekweremadu combine both sympathy and empathy. For those who do not like this my thesis, may our children not kill, but bury us.

“ A person commits an offence if the person arranges or facilitates the travel of another person with a view to V being exploited. A person may in particular arrange or facilitate V’s travel by recruiting V, transporting or transferring V, harbouring or receiving V, or transferring or exchanging control over V.

Consequently, David, the donor was scheduled to return to Nigeria. However, this source claims, David having seen the beauty of London , reneged and refused to return to Nigeria. Instead, he bolted and sought asylum with the UK Police, after wandering the street for three days. He claimed hunger and an attempt by the Ekweremadus to harvest his kidney. His story was moving. Even believable. May our children bury, not kill us.

David pleaded that he would not want to return to Nigeria because he is worried for his safety. The victim claimed someone visited his father in Nigeria and asked him to get the victim, his son, to drop the case. “People trafficking across international borders for harvesting of human organs is a form of slavery,” the judge at Old Bailey Criminal Court said as he handed down the jail term.

David who had neither been given a job, nor sent to school as he said he was promised, was not prepared to return to Nigeria. So, he bolted from his kernel and ran to a police station to save himself from starvation. He lied he was only 15 to curry sympathy. He was asked if he was paid money, and he said he was paid only N270,000. But, the police upon scrutiny of the Whatsapp chats between Ekweremadu and Dr. Obeta discovered that Ekweremadu had actually given N4.

 

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