Originally entitled; ‘Lekki Pogrom: Government Lied,” this opinion article by Folorunso Fatai Adisa, queried how a country could kill its youths and, still, labour hard to coverup the pogrom “A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.”—Mark Twain. The Yoruba submission that, “Ti iro na lo l’Ogun odun, Ojokan ni otito yio ba”, which can be loosely translated as “ regardless of how fast a lie travels, the truth will outpace it in a microsecond” aptly encapsulates the morbid…
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