Uromi: Cause, effect and misdirected outrage

I will not watch the videos of the reported genocide that took place in Uromi, in which travellers were lynched on suspicion of being terrorists and kidnappers. The reports emanating from the media are gruesome enough. The incident dehumanises us all as Nigerians and is yet another commentary on our country’s rapid descent into barbarism. It is sad. My unqualified sympathies go to the victims of this mob justice and the other sundry victims…