No Tyre Is Worth A Child

The bullet that ended the life of 14-year-old schoolboy, Kehinde Alade in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, didn’t come from the battlefield. It wasn’t the aftershock of a robbery gone wrong. It didn’t ricochet from a hoodlum’s gun in a neighbourhood skirmish. No – it came from a man in uniform. A man licensed by the state to protect, not to destroy. A man who, on that fatal morning, pulled the trigger not on a criminal, but on a car’s tyre – and hit a boy instead.