Abati has sent a message to the Oba of
Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu.
Reuben Abati advises Oba of Lagos, RilwanAkiolu on lagoon deaths
Abati wants the Lagos traditional ruler
and his chiefs to appease the lagoon on
Lagos Island over attempts by some
Nigerians to take their own lives by
jumping from the Third Mainland
Bridge.
NAIJ.com gathered that some Ifa priests
have said the Lagos lagoon is angry and
that is why it has been attracting
persons to jump into it.
Abati says, ''If indeed whatever spirit
that controls the Lagoon is hungry, the
Oba of Lagos and his chiefs should hurry
up and feed that spirit with whatever it
eats.''
Throwing a jibe at the traditional ruler,
Abati said: ''I assume that this would be
a more useful venture than the partisan
declaration by the Oba of Lagos that
nobody should contest against the
incumbent Lagos State Governor in
2019! ''
Abati noted that some Nigerians have
progressed from anger to clinical
depression, resulting in a rise not
merely in social aggressiveness, but a
determination by certain individuals to
escape from it all.
He cautioned that but the sharp increase
in the number and frequency of people
taking their own lives in the last two
years alone, speaks to a certain
dysfunctionality requiring closer
inquiry.
He wrote: ''What is certain however
regardless of the place and time, is that
human beings decide to abbreviate their
own mortality when they resolve that
they can no longer live with the
discrepancy between what they are and
what they would like to be, or what they
have been and what they have suddenly
become or what they expect and what
happens to them eventually, all of this
basically in the context of the imagined
stigma, shame, disgrace or
disappointment.''
Read Abati's full article on
reubenabati.com
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In the last few weeks, there have been
three cases of Lagosians attempting to
take their own lives by jumping into the
lagoon.
While one of them succeded, the other
two were rescued and apprehended
before taking the plunge.
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