So it has come to this, abi?
You do all that is in your power to avert disaster from all sides and it still finds a crafty way to overwhelm you from above. Literarily speaking o!
To those who have no idea to whom my rantings are directed, I beg to clearly spell my object of grievance in neon-crusted shining letters so no person of mature age will miss my meaning; DANA. Yes DANA. The 5000-pound steel coffin that left its rightful abode in the sky and chose to forcefully dwell amongst mortals uninvited causing death and debris in startling proportion.
As shocking as it may seem, we have attempted to move on. Note that I said ‘attempted’ because as far as we know compensation promises are yet to be fulfilled. Yes, I know they were promised a 100,000 dollars each (dead men have hammered sha!) by a soft-spoken rep of the company immediately drying up the tears of many a grieving relative. Still, I harbor a beef.
My beef has been crafted into a relatively simple question so permit me to ask. * clears throat loudly*
Why would the compensation given to those who boarded the ill-fated plane be well over 15 million naira but that given to victims who were assailed from above and crushed beneath steel and concrete be a meager 200,000 naira?
For God’s sake, who was the senseless genius that did the analysis of the payment format?
Was he high on cheap drugs when he made the aforementioned projections or was it just a heartless oversight engineered by ignorance?
So if you are sitting comfortably in your sitting room watching a Yoruba movie of some sort and doing justice to a bowl of Ogi or some other variety of local dish and a huge steel-encased aluminum-clad king-sized plane comes crashing into the sanctity of your living space unannounced, what you deserve as compensation for the property-crushing and life-taking inconvenience is a meager 200,000 naira?
Haba! So to get the better part of the compensation deal you needed to have been on the flight regardless of whether you died when it landed on you or not.
Confusing isn’t it?
It’s not really any of my business I know, but the rationale behind the compensation sounds warped to me so I just thought I should do small aproko.
Abi na me no understand?
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