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07/08/2020

Food for thought

*"If You Hear Only One Side of The Story, You Have No Understanding At All."*

That's a quote by Chinua Achebe. I learned about this the hard way. Here's my story:

I was President of the Students Union Government that year. I was fast asleep in my room that night in 1998. Suddenly, I heard a loud bang on my door and a commotion outside. I opened the door to see one of my set-mates who was all emotional with a little crowd of students gathering. He narrated his story - we all knew he was a self-sponsored student who drove a taxi after school. That was how he raised funds to pay his fees. He was in his taxi around that night when a policeman stopped him for a broken tail light.

The policeman wanted a bribe from him and all his plea that he is an indigent student fell on deaf ears. His ID card and the taxi cab were impounded until he can raise a bribe for the policeman. That was his story.

I was livid with rage. I quickly mobilized students and led an aluta that night which continued till the next day. We took over the whole town and there was a massive uproar - especially since the University was non-residential. The following day, the Sole- Administrator (those were the Abacha years and the University had a Sole Administrator instead of a Vice-Chancellor), the now late Professor Akinola Salau sent for me. The Paramount Ruler of the town was on the phone. The whole town was in panic mode. An urgent meeting was called to resolve the issue.

I attended the meeting with some selected members of my exco and our guy whose taxi caused the brouhaha. And I now heard another angle of the story that made me look very foolish. It turned out that truly, our guy was stopped by a policeman for his broken tail light. But that was the only part of the story that was true. The policeman who stopped him was the Divisional Traffic Officer who had a well-known reputation for his integrity. At that time, he was one of the leaders of the Deeper Life Bible Church in that town. He was at the meeting and to my shock, he told me he took money from his own pocket the moment he realized the guy was a student, gave it to him to buy the broken tail light and come for his car which he truly impounded once he buys the tail light. He told us he impounded the car because it could cause an accident. I looked at our guy and asked him if this was true. Did the DTO give you money from his pocket? So you lied that he demanded a bribe? Silence. I screamed at him and he acknowledged what the DTO said. I became weak in the knees.................

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