A Lesson From The Ese Oruru Saga

Ese Oruru is a teenager who according to reports, sells food in Bayelsa.
As it is with every business, you have to be cheerful and all with your customers and she was cheerful with Yunusa, a regular customer. One thing led to another and Ese found herself in Kano with Yunusa and according to reports, it was without the knowledge of her parents. It wasn't even to her own knowledge she claimed.....
Fellow Nigerians, you all know the rest of the story, but what i am interested in is the aftermath of this entire episode.
I was moved to write this when I heard a radio presenter saying; "we have to put a restriction to the people we allow our children to mingle with, especially those who are not family members you know, close relatives." This drove me to begin questioning the definition of family.
In my humble opinion, what such school of thought would achieve is a divided nation. If we begin to think or directly/indirectly instruct our children that they are to mingle only with so and so and keep their distances from so and so. How can we then live together and proclaim one Nigeria?
Have we not learnt from the Tower of Babel story? When the people worked in one accord, the building of the tower moved with progress until division was created amongst them. As soon as this happened, work on the tower stopped. As long as we continue to define unnecessary boundaries that stifle unity, we will never make meaningful progress as a nation.
This is where the media pains me the most. Everyday, many Nigerians do perform superb and heroic deeds which are swept under the carpet, but as soon as something demeaning occurs, it gets a hash tag hence filling the minds of our people with resentment and negativity.
What I would suggest in the Ese Oruru saga is a public punishment of all the offenders. Let the masses be reassured of the credibility of our judiciary.
It is better we say to parents; "keep a watchful eye over your children's movement" rather than trailing on the path of our dear reporter above.
God bless Nigeria.