THE WORLD NEEDS MORE OF EJIROS - AN EPITOME OF THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS

 THE WORLD NEEDS MORE OF EJIROS - AN EPITOME OF THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS

The very same situations that would otherwise inflame the hostile imagination in some persons, making them villains, can also instill the heroic imagination in other people, prompting them to perform heroic deeds. 

Consider for example, at a time the country found itself trapped in a horrendous and expensive labyrinthine bind of most evil terrorists who have a tempestuous predilection for wanton cruelty e.g., Boko haram, ISWAP, Fulani herdsmen, Bandits, Blasphemy Group of Company [BGC], hell-bent on lurking around for gruesome killings, arson, and immolation—besmirching humanity. Also included on the list, are the so-called Unknown Gunmen. Their lives are undying proofs of the worthlessness, hollowness, and miseries of those who have no smidgen amount of love and compassion in their lives. May our country be tweaked.

But for Ejiro Otarigho, the tanker driver, is preservation of life--saved lives by driving a burning tanker away from Agbarho community in Ughelli North LGA, Delta State at the risk of his own life fortiter et fideliter.

This is an incredible act of gallantry and bravery that no doubt, saved lives—humanity—a legendary hero. Plus, a lovely, warm, utterly godly human being.  Thank you, Ejiro, for the sacrifice you made, the worth of emulation, and the lives you saved.

Seeing Ejiro brings back a lot of lost glory of humanity’s emotions. Ejiro the brave driver. I wonder what the epithet will be for the current terrorist generation. The contemporary world owes its existence to people like Ejiros. Altruism—needs to be deliberately ingrained into humanity’s collective cultural psyche and slough off its tempestuous predilection for barbaric constraints of nature.

George Bernard Shaw captured this point in the preface to his great play ‘Major Barbara’ which goes thus: “Every reasonable man and woman is a potential scoundrel and a potential good citizen. What a man is, depends upon his character and what’s inside. What he does and what we think of what he does depends on upon his circumstances.”

So, each of us may possess the capacity to do terrible things. But we also possess an inner hero; if stirred to action, that inner hero is capable of performing tremendous goodness for others. In the superfluity of despair, love defies all egregious acts in the battle to reclaim man's humanness.

God Bless Ejiro richly, amen.