Nigeria, March 6 -- Dear readers, I'm but a storyteller. Please, allow me tell you a short story. Let me digress a little bit just to give you some background information. As Martin Luther King, the American fiery cleric and human rights activist, rightly said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

On 5 July, 2022, the rain was sizzling quietly when a young female police officer jumped in front of my car opposite the aviation plaza, just beside Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). I hurriedly slammed the brake pedal. The new tyres screeched and the car stopped right in front of the traffic officer. "Oga, park, park, you flouted the traffic," she screamed. Her colleagues jumped into my car while I was expla...