An eye for and eye and soon the world will be blind

“Daniella Okeke has a word for Nigerians praying for Paris”

“Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg”

These are some of the headlines that really baffled me. I didn’t realise that there was a competition about whose tragedy gets the most sympathy or is publicised more. I remember not so long ago that our Chibok girls were taken and the whole world, including Paris, joined in saying in one voice Bring Back Our Girls and Real men don’t buy wives. Regardless of how much noise was made or not it doesn’t change the fact that people died. Children lost parents, siblings lost siblings and parents lost children. Can we not put pettiness aside for this moment and say “we are sorry for your loss and we understand how you feel” because we too have experienced this atrocity in our land.

We cannot say that because we feel they didn’t cry with us so we won’t with them. An eye for an eye and soon the world will be blind. Please let’s put things into perspective.