Who Gave Her A Gun - Our Young Generation

Crime Watch ~ 5 Mins Read ~

I tried so hard to refrain from writing a piece concerning the girl who supposedly took a gun to school to shoot her school teacher for cutting off her dyed hair.. hmmm

OK! Get the gist before I continue

A girl by the name Promise Idorenyin stormed her school at Community Secondary School, Ikot Ewa in Akpabuyo LGA in Cross River with a locally-made double barrel pistol to shoot her teacher and was apprehended before she did her bid and was handed over to the authorities.

She was confirmed on the 19th of February to be a cultist, when she confessed to be a member of a local cult group called 'Sky Queen Confraternity'.

It did not stop there!

Promise is said to be in a relationship with a man old enough to be her father by the name Okon Effiong. According to her, the intimate relationship has been ongoing since August 2020, and report has it that the locally-made gun belongs to the man. The said man provides for her needs.

Now to my reason for writing this piece!

Everybody would look at this girl with so much disdain, and marvel at how such a young girl would have the mind and temerity to carry a gun to school, talk more of shooting her own teacher. We would all proclaim 'oh God'! 'what a shame'!

This incident point to what I stand for, 'That a nation will only thrive if the Young Generation is captured positively'. This young girl has been captured by the wrong sect of people and has been conditioned to act as such.

I will look beyond the act and see her vulnerability, and I will simply put that she does not know better. Her mind development was thwarted with, and for that reason she act according to how she was structured.

This single incident and other incidents alike should call us as a nation for introspection, it should bring us to the truth that our Young Generation are been left to wander on their own. 

Every arm, institution and organisation, should wake up and own up to their responsibility to our Young Generation. We must intentionally condition them to act, think and process informations rightly. 

We must see to it that they thrive!

We must ensure that this young ones stop being hazardous to the society and to themself also.

Chinenye Chukwumezie 

Child/Adolescent Advocate