IS MY SO LOVELY BELOVED COUNTRY THIS BAD?
PUNCH 07/06/2012
JUNE 7, 2012 BY ABIMBOLA ADELAKUN ([email protected]) 14 COMMENTS
When the Sosoliso Airline 1145 crash-landed in December 2005, I recall someone’s plaintive laments on TV, ‘Water! If only there was water!’..........
Six years (and several crashes) after, a recall of the heartbreaking but long forgotten plaintive lament rang out loud again: Nigeria still has a water problem. At the crash site of Dana Air Flight 992 on Sunday, it was shocking to read residents and rescuers say they tried to douse the fire from the burning aircraft with packs of sachet water, popularly called pure water.
When I read this, I sat down and wept profusely for Nigeria. Pure water? Are we such a backward nation, perhaps in the Fifth World, sharing an inglorious corner with other rundown countries such as say, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen? Nigeria is one country that has a high incidence of air crashes but even with that, we have learnt little and acted on far less as far as emergency and crash landings are concerned. Pure water to stop a burning aircraft? How worse can things get for a nation that prides itself on many vain parameters and whose loud-mouthed leaders are forever promising transformation from tomorrow till yesterday?
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