Politicians are a special breed. Three months ago almost to the date, the British FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Chelsea Football Clubs was about to be played.

He was the man saddled with the suicidal job of meeting with the Nigerians after Biafra had lost steam. General  Philip Asuquo Effiong was already a soldier the year Col. Olusegun Obasanjo was eight years old. He was commissioned before Generals Emeka Ojukwu and Yakubu Gowon.

The country- not Anambra state alone- woke up to a tragedy of gargantuan proportions last Sunday. It is no longer news that gunmen walked into a catholic church in an Awka village during the early morning mass- while most of the nation still slept on this day of rest- and proceeded to massacre the faithful and not so faithful, in the goriest manner possible.         

Chinese writer and poet, Han Yu (768-824) writing on the truth about one’s underlying character identified that: “The three grades of character are superior, medium and inferior: the superior is just good, the medium is capable of development either in an upward or a downward direction, and the inferior is just evil.”

Weep not Ozubulu. We weep with you. Ozubulu, you are not alone. We are with you. We are you. What a man sows, he shall reap. We taught our youths ruthlessness. We filled them with the love of money. We had no jobs for them. We catapulted  them far and wide. We sold ancestral lands to procure visas.