Nigeria, April 7 -- Last week's gruesome murder of some people in Uromi area of Edo State has again raised the question of how much value we place on human lives and how increasingly insecure and vulnerable we are as people. It has also raised some questions around our seriousness in building that nation where the protection of lives and property would indeed be the primary objective of government at all levels. A society where all will be equal before the law and where all would live and be treated as citizens and be free.

Except we are agreed to deceiving ourselves, every life must matter wherever that human is resident. The life of a Nigerian in Sokoto must be as important as that of another Nigerian in Delta or Ibadan. A Nigerian tha...