DAVID MARK AND HIS NONSENSICAL STATE OF EMERGENCY

Sir,

DAVID MARK AND HIS NONSENSICAL STATE OF EMERGENCY

Senate President David Mark is first among equals at the upper chamber of the national assembly. Whether he got there through rigging, does not matter because almost all of them out there at the various levels of (s)elected positions were thrown up through that way.

David Mark talks unguardedly, unintelligently most times. One therefore is in agreement with the stand of some Igbo leaders who reacted to Mark’s position that state of emergency was due in South-east, nay Abia State, because of the kidnap case involving journalists; talked as if he loved the journalists more than other Nigerians. Senator Mark for making that statement exhibited his continued hatred for Igbo people. Going down the memory lane; after the Nigerian civil war, David Mark (then army Captain) was in charge of selling Igbo citizens’ properties declared as ‘abandoned’ located mainly in Rivers State. He handled it well to the detriment of our people who returned from the war stripped of their hard-earned properties.

David Mark today owns some choice properties not only in Nigeria but also overseas including golf-courses in Europe, unknown to many. Mark is also very wealthy and in Nigerian system, you do not question how one got his/her wealth. And for someone who considered himself wealthy, he could talk anyhow on anything he feels like, without bothering who he has sincerely injured.

I want to ask Senator Mark; why he did not suggest state of emergency in the present Plateau State that has recurring human right violations or in Borno State where Boko Haram ensured termination of more than 1,000 innocent souls within few days or Bauchi State that constantly experienced boko haram kind of violence or in other places with worse things happening. David Mark did not even ask for state of emergency in Akwa Ibom where some atrocities have been happening for some time now and from where the journalists left and the governor seems the only that has callously not bothered to sympathize with his guests who were on their way home but met bad and unfortunate incident.

Nnamdi Nwaorah, Zik Avenue, AWKA, Anambra State.