It is one of the most amazing things about the world we live in, so many things that are worth our attention happen and we don’t even notice.
Recently in Nigeria, According to early reports from British outlets such as BBC and The Guardian, on April 14, it’s believed that members from the Boko Haram, an extremist Islamic group, broke into the school while the girls were taking a test, killed two guards and took 234 girls, driving them off in armored trucks. Some girls, close to 30-50, managed to escape. We were busy being amazed that after so many years of jumping from woman to woman in Hollywood, George Clooney decided to get married to someone and got engaged.
How does such a big story not get major worldwide media coverage? A story about young girls stolen from their homes and parents with reports of them being sold into slavery and it was a “hush- hush” situation?
In South Sudan, recently very gory and horrific pictures of dead bodies were being circulated all over the web to get the UN to intervene in what is now known as the South Sudan massacre, thousands of people were killed and the World stood by and watched in silence, yet we live in a digital world where news travels in a second.
Its such hypocrisy that led to many people dying in Rwanda while the so called super powers kept quiet and distanced themselves from the genocide and later swooped in to offer assistance when it is all too late.
It is quite unfortunate that we live in a world full of double standards that we consider some situations more important than the rest. If less than Four white girls (God forbid) were kidnapped, the International media houses would have a field day, social networks would have the names of those little girls trending all over the world.
What went wrong with S. Sudan and the missing girls? Why do we want to jump on a band wagon after things have happened and there is almost no hope?
Take this as a lesson learned, whenever something is happening at home among our people that will affect the rest of the world, why not we ourselves inform the rest of the world through whatever forms of communication we have and create awareness about a lot of things, let us not turn a blind eye on situations just because they do not affect us.
Continue praying for these little girls that they will be returned to their homes safely and South Sudan that they will know peace and settle their differences for the sake of the suffering masses.
#BringBackOurGirls