Opinion
A Tribute To Felicia Otene: The Humble, Awesome, Respectful And Intelligent Journalist By Adejoh Monday
I suddenly noticed an unusual call from Abubakar Suleiman, which had already kept me in suspicion. Efforts to return the very unusual call, left me in suspense. The awe, at the news of your death, immediately changed my mood. We have not seen for over a decade now, but my consolation had been that we were all doing well and progressing in one thing or the other.
Your departure further reiterates the very essence of living a humble, gentle and loving lifestyle, which you were an embodiment. “What are my ears hearing?” is a question that is exponentially leading to meta questions like; “what happened?”, “God, why Felicia Otene, the innocent?” and “why now?” which all have no logical answers in the human sense. Is this agreeing with the commonsense, that the good people don’t last? Will this be the end of you and how you have exited this world and consequently our 2007 Departmental Association-MACOSA that has bolted us together till date? What about your little daughter?………
Though, Charles Caleb Cotton noted that Death however is the liberation of him whom freedom cannot please; the physician of whom medicine cannot cure, the comforter of him whom time cannot console. To a distinct extent, Death is a relief that can absolve unappreciated freedom but to us this is too much.
Yes we know that there is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the public of the grave, this makes wealth and health become more increasingly meaningless due to their inability to transfer beyond the mortal.
Death in its agony needs to be embraced, finding its position as a golden key to eternity; even at that, this is too hard to bear.
Oh rest in peace. Do I call you, the innocent martyr of the merciless death which has cut your life’s journey short? Your journey was indeed cut short and the sun was too in a hurry to have set at noon for you. One of the taboos, of the Igala people had happened! The abomination of parents burying their offspring. May God forbid again!. Good night FELICIA ENWUBIOMA OTENE
