Dalep: Crashing Value-system and Growing Inhumanity

The brutal execution of Dalep Daciya, a male student of UniMaid (University of Maiduguri) by the dreaded Boko Haram sect is just another incident that would keep distorting the serenity of the calm, observant mind, and raising beyond it, pertinent questions.

Dalep had celebrated the yuletide holiday with his family. One thing definitely could have been in his mind as he set out for this journey: of how the new session of studies would be. 

He was happily returning to resume studies when he was abducted along the Maiduguri-Jos highway. We also mustn't forget also of what could be the parting ceremonies of the people he had been with and who he was leaving for the moment to do the what was educationally needful. Dalep, as we were made to know left for this crucial journey with some other commuters, one of which happened to be his school mate, and with whom he was abducted.

We wouldn't know under what circumstances the sect decided to eventually kill him- whether or not he resisted any of their demands. But the reality we were made to behold from the footage released by the sect was that Dalep was subjected to the trauma of a stern execution. He was shot dead, and by no more than a little boy soldier of 8yrs!

Beyond the nefarity of the sect's subjection of using child soldier, and beyond the unconscionability of such involvement, the wicked execution of Dalep is an act so callous and barbaric that is just an addendum to the many such incidences of senselessness and mindless killings by this same sect.

The circumstances that led to the abduction of Dalep and the other victims are horrendous and so pathetic. The manner with which he was murdered is most condemnable. It was just some weeks ago, precisely on the 22nd of January, that the news of the beheading of Pastor Andimi by  this same sect surfaced, and weeks earlier, eleven aid workers were executed.

And it just appears to be that the spate of violent exertion by the diabolic militias continue  without a seeming wedge in sight. Beyond the evoking of overarching condemnation and the spreading palpable fears the spree of random attacks and heinous executions have continued to stir, it behooves to wander what has happened to the human sense and value for life.

Where lies the humanity in their act by perceived human elements, who with careless abandon, continue to make a random execution of their fellow humans just for handy fun. And worse still, to make a recording of same? The reality of the moment is that our value for propriety has continued to dwindle as observed daily in the happenings around us. The birth and sustenance of the terror and brigandage of the evil of Boko Haram is just a fallout of a disheveled value system.

And so practically, while we condemn and endeavor to stem this tide, we must also commit energy to building and sustaining stronger values, especially amongst our young minds.