Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore, has blamed the road
crash involving ex-world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua on
deep-rooted institutional failures in Nigeria.
Sowore said this on Tuesday in a post on his verified X
handle, condoling with the families of those who died in the road crash.
According to him, the accident, which claimed the lives of
Joshua’s associates, should not be overshadowed by the survival of the global
sports icon.
The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action
Congress, AAC, stated that their deaths must not be reduced to mere footnotes
in the survival of a celebrity, adding that the attention generated by the
incident should compel national reflection and responsibility.
Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has blamed the road
crash involving ex-world heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, to
deep-rooted institutional failures in Nigeria.
Sowore said this on Tuesday in a post on his verified X
handle, condoling with the families of those who died in the road crash.
According to him, the accident, which claimed the lives of
Joshua’s associates, should not be overshadowed by the survival of the global
sports icon.
The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action
Congress, AAC, stated that their deaths must not be reduced to mere footnotes
in the survival of a celebrity, adding that the attention generated by the
incident should compel national reflection and responsibility.
“These kinds of fatal accidents are the daily, naked reality
of a nation that has failed failed in small things and in big ones alike.
“A country where road safety agencies and the police cannot
provide even the most basic first aid. Where there are no stretchers, no
functional ambulances, and certainly no air ambulances. Where people die not
only from accidents, but from institutional neglect,” he wrote.
“These kinds of fatal accidents are the daily, naked reality
of a nation that has failed failed in small things and in big ones alike.
“A country where road safety agencies and the police cannot
provide even the most basic first aid. Where there are no stretchers, no
functional ambulances, and certainly no air ambulances. Where people die not
only from accidents, but from institutional neglect,” he wrote.
Source: Sowore blames Anthony Joshua car crash on ‘systemic failures’
