Sunday, 19 July 2026

THEIR ONLY CRIME WAS BEING NIGERIANS

 


By Patience Gabriel Gutus*


In Mussa, Borno State,

tiny hands that should have been holding pencils were seized by fear.

In Oriire, Oyo State,

children who left home for school never imagined that learning would become a journey into captivity.

Their only crime was being born in a nation where innocence is too often left unprotected.