Public viewing centers as the name implies, are provided
places in a particular area meant for the masses to gather and view or watch
certain films and programming such as football among others, for entertainment
as well as impacting values and sharing ideas among themselves.
But to a sad
point, these centers today became a graveyards for many innocent lives where by
some heartless blood suckers turn the viewing centers to a “life snatching
points”. Definitely, the alarming numbers of attacks on these centers is quite
worrisome considering the values live has.
For instance, 1st June this
year appeared to be a tragic day to football fans as a deadly expulsions rocked
a viewing center that was screening a televised football match located at Kabang
near a major military base in Mubi Adamawa state. The expulsion left over 40
football fans dead and injured more than fifty. Recently, there was another
attack targeting a football viewing point in Damaturu, the capital city of Yobe
state which at least killed 20 people and destroyed properties, various dailies
confirmed from the police that the suicide bomber used tricycle known as keke
napep during the attack.
The most astonishing issue is that most of
these attacks on viewing centers do occurred in states under state of emergency
rule, where by troops were deployed by federal government to safeguard people's
lives and properties, but to a sad note, the effort was futile. This clearly
shows that federal government is ineffective and has failed in its first
responsibility for the protection of lives and properties.
Therefore, the state governments should stand up to take a proactive
measure base on their level rescue the lives of their citizens. Thus the action
taken by Adamawa state government for closing down all public viewing centers
in the state is remarkable, It is therefore advisable for the rest of the
states follow the step of Adamawa state government in other to rescue the lives
of football enthusiastic in this Brazil 2014.
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