Impact Living: Chadwick and Chika

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 I do not know much about the young Chadwick Boseman, as I'm yet to watch any of his acts. So, I never felt need, never wanted to be drawn to the tributes. But I have begun to reconsider, obviously out of the push from the cacophony of voices that attest to his impacts.

If he could have touched such lives as cut across different backgrounds and statuses, he could as well have touched mine!

Please permit me to salute such a young man, who within such a short time of living was able to move so much crowd of inspiration.

Rest in power, Chadwick!


On Captain Ernest Chika

Permit to also send my tribute, a hearty one indeed, to the pilot of the helicopter that crashed in the Opebi area of Lagos.

Chika Ernest died, thinking of the last impact he would make even as he struggled for life. The young pilot left a great legacy in death. He saved more lives by that heroic act of emptying the aircraft's fuel!

And whilst the late Chika thought nobly for the people behind, those behind who in the least could have saved him at the peak of need, failed him. He allegedly died whilst the hospital he was taken to waited for a police report!

I could not berate enough but just weep at the relevance of a police report or its demand in a critical case as involving victim of a known air crash.

Rest in power, Captain!


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