“No sane nation debates which of its citizens deserve sympathy. But Nigeria does loudly, shamelessly, and proudly. This is not about religion anymore it’s about conscience. If Christians are killed, speak up. If Muslims are killed, speak up”.
BY SA’ADIYYAH ADEBISI HASSAN
In a village, a great flood sweeps through the land.
Houses are submerged. Families are screaming. Lives and properties are being lost.
Amid the chaos, one man sees his wife drowning and cries out for help. Then suddenly his neighbours get angry.
They’re not angry because he caused the flood.
They’re angry because he dared to shout for help first.
Their argument? “He shouldn’t call for help because everyone is drowning not only his family.”
Read that again. Let it sink in.
That is the madness happening in Nigeria today.
When Sympathy Becomes a Crime
The moment someone says, “Christians are being massacred,” some Nigerians rush out shouting, “It’s not only Christians!” as if being victims of the same tragedy is now a competition.
What kind of twisted reasoning is that? So, because Muslims are also being killed, Christians shouldn’t cry out? Should we all keep quiet and let the country drown because suffering must now be shared equally before it becomes valid?
This is not logic it’s lunacy. It’s the mindset of lost people, drowning in hypocrisy, who have turned national tragedy into a political scoreboard.
The Leaders Are No Better
Our leaders are busy playing politics over corpses.
Show me a country that gives amnesty to terrorists who massacre its citizens, and I Will show you a nation led by men without souls.
Nigeria doesn’t rehabilitate victims it rehabilitates killers. It doesn’t comfort widows it empowers warlords. Our politicians care more about 2027 elections than 2025 funerals.
Check their official pages, their handlers and even data boys: defections, rallies, and insults to the opposition.
Not one post about the families wiped out in Plateau.
Not one word for soldiers dying daily in Borno forests.
Not one moment of silence for schoolchildren abducted and forgotten.
A government that pampers killers and punishes victims is not a government, it’s an accomplice.
When a Nation Competes Over Death
The most disturbing part is that ordinary Nigerians are now competing for victimhood. Instead of uniting against terrorists, we argue over who is dying more. Muslims or Christians?
That’s not patriotism. That’s collective decay. We have lost our empathy, our humanity, and our sense of justice.
No sane nation debates which of its citizens deserve sympathy. But Nigeria does loudly, shamelessly, and proudly.
This is not about religion anymore it’s about conscience. If Christians are killed, speak up. If Muslims are killed, speak up. If anyone is killed, speak up but stop silencing others for speaking first.
When truth becomes tribal and justice becomes selective, what remains is not a country, it’s a graveyard with a flag.
And right now, that flag is still flying over ashes.
That is beyond madness.
