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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=543502" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A SELFLESS SERVICE TO AN UNGRATEFUL NATION (Narrative Poem)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One sunny day, <br>while on Rapid respond Squad <br>Patrol along Oshodi / Apapa <br>Expressway we had a <br>distress call that men of <br>the underworld are having <br>a field day at matori </div><div style="margin:10px 0">we made a you turn <br>at Toyota and head <br>for Matori. <br>On approaching Ladipo Market, <br>we at the back of <br>the patrol van: <br>a ford Ranger, disabuse<br>and continue with bounce by bounce <br>movement toward our location </div><div style="margin:10px 0">we had barely pass <br>the second warehouse <br>in the market when <br>this heavy firing <br>started coming from <br>all quarters: it was an Ambush. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">After about ten minutes, <br>when they didn't hear <br>or see any movement <br>in or around the patrol <br>vehicle, <br>they started coming out <br>from their hide out <br>in hanger position. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On three! <br>We fire rapidly at them <br>after five minutes <br>of firing; <br>we left six of them dead <br>two seriously injured <br>with bullet wounds. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On our side, <br>the driver was still <br>battling with breath <br>The team leader sgt Ogunike <br>took nineteen bullets <br>in the chest. <br>The vehicle was shelled <br>beyond recognition & the <br>communication gadget damaged <br>so we have to reach base <br>on cell phone for backup <br>and ambulance. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then drama started <br>unfolding itself. <br>First was a young man <br>of about twenty three <br>his reaction when he saw <br>us trying to bring out <br>the remains of sgt Ogunike <br>was shocking. <br>He was like 'Ha, <br>they even kill police. <br>this guys try O! ' <br>and then he calls <br>out to another guy <br>saying 'This boys too young oh'. <br>Police self, look how they <br>just waste their lives'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">An elderly woman <br>shouted at us from <br>the now growing crowd <br>'Those boys you killed <br>are people's children o! ' <br>and then she started <br>cursing in Yoruba Language <br>I was dumb fold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This boys they are talking <br>about just open fire <br>on a police patrol vehicle <br>and killing two police officers </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These boys fired the <br>first shot. <br>They draw the first <br>blood. <br>They look life first, <br>and nobody cares <br>cause we are police. <br>Perhaps our lives are worthless. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If we hadn't respond <br>to their distress call<br>they would criticize us <br>of incompetency <br>now they are criticizing <br>us for defending our lives. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The society has decay. <br>They place values on rogues: <br>nobody cares when <br>a policeman dies, <br>nobody cares if he <br>have children waiting <br>for him: <br>wives who have turn <br>widows <br>a force that doesn't give <br>a damn about the welfare<br>of her personnel's and the <br>most painful of all: <br>a selfless service to an <br>ungrateful nation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For John Festus Utazi</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthias+Pantaleon">Matthias Pantaleon</a><div class=q>
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while on Rapid respond Squad 
Patrol along Oshodi / Apapa 
Expressway we had a 
distress call that men of 
the underworld are having 
a field day at matori 

we made a you turn 
at Toyota and head 
for Matori. 
On approaching Ladip..."></div>
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