An appeal to the nation; let our loss save a million lives.

  Sound travels fast, then light, then matter. The newspaper reports don’t tell you this. They don’t tell you ten meters from a blast it feels like the apocalypse. It feels like the end.

  They cannot tell you about the tension, the anxiety, the fear. No one mentions that our rescue system was wheelbarrows used to transport victims; they wouldn't reveal that ambulances were cars of passersby who were willing to stop and help.

  The news must have forgotten to mention that 118,200 or 250 dead, that those figures are one. one way of putting together everything; One way of condensing family, friends, classmates, colleagues and loved ones. They forget to mention that numbers are a way of turning a hundred different stories into a numerical index that says nothing.

  No one tells you of the smell of death in the corridors of the morgues, lined with bodies as you try to make your way around, to find friends who never came back home. They don’t tell you of hope, how you hope to not find your loved ones carelessly packed on the cold floor of this room but pray you do, because you know after searching through the casualty wards whatever you find now would mean the end and not finding at all would mean worse, it would mean never knowing, never forgiving yourself for giving up because you feel you tried but didn't do enough.

   Why have i chosen to tell you this, it is neither to earn sympathy nor stir anger. It is to open our minds to the things we need. It would be insanity to say the government is doing nothing, but it wouldn't be wrong to suggest they are not doing enough. We are so busy fighting terror we have forgotten that we need to control it’s effects. In a nation wrought with this level of insurgence is it not illogical that our medical system still does not have rescue ambulances, that there are almost no paramedics. That on explosion it is the police and fire service only that respond, that most of us died because of the long hospital drive. As much as we spend massively on security because we need too, we should spend even more on health, because we have to. We do not want Nigerians to only shake their heads, comment on our post and share our pictures. We want these seven deaths to save a million lives.

May God grant us the fortitude to bear our loss, the faith to not question and the grace to forgive a nation that promised to protect us but didn’t.