My Candid Opinion.
So recently the Nigerian Army abandoned their assigned duties and took over jobs that rightfully belonged to well-trained and Certified Health Practitioners. And the result? A further and more severe cut to what held us together as a country, as a united nation if at all we were. Whilst many of us ascribe to the alarm raised by parents as a baseless rumour, a lot more of you have failed to understand that doing the right things at the wrong time has no moral justification. If at all that action was the right thing.
It is a shame that irrespective of how expensive the operations of the current Nigerian nation is to run, we are still yet to attain a state of near average in the ways things are done. Just the same way our political office leaders who are to safeguard and manager out treasury has become the looters of what belong to us as a unit, the Police who ought to protect rights of citizens has become tax collectors on the highways, now the Armies have become Doctors and Nurses. What a beautiful nonsense!
I had read in the news that first incident of monkey pox was found in Bayelsa state. How then did the Army start their 'unannounced' vaccination in Enugu, Abia, Imo and Anambra? Common sense would have suggested a flag-off from Bayelsa and environs! I wouldn't want to question when the Nigerian Army trained her staff or rented Doctors-on-Army-Uniforms to be used for such an exercise as sensitive as vaccination against an epidermic.
Congratulations to every parent that besieged schools to withdraw their kids and ward for what they have done is noble and fundamental for parenthood. An Igbo adage said that "it is only a tree that was told it would be cut down and it stood", I would recover my kids and be sure to home-school them for as long as such "uncalculated" and unplanned vaccination lasts if I am a father.
Kudos too to the Governors in Anambra and Enugu who ordered immediate stoppage of the exercise in their state. Shame again to the man in Imo state who had nothing better to say that condemn parents who withdrew their kids - after all his kids were not in any of those schools.
On a general note, our government should pursue our collective course in chivalry to reclaim the loss of trust, hope and dependency by the populace.
The Army should do more of their jobs than hijack courses they were not set up to follow. If Python 2 must dance in the East, let them consider reclaiming our farmlands that have been taken over by faceless nomads from across/outside bothers of Nigeria.
As for people who insist that Parents of those kids acted based on rumour, I hope you don't forget that even our last year's budget was a rumour till today!