News broke of a Nigerian man sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in India for drug trafficking. Instead of sober reflection, the comment section quickly turned tribalistic. One user wrote: “Let us know his first name, is he Chukwuemeka or Luruntaoya?”—inviting others to mock specific ethnic groups. This is harmful. Crime has no tribe; individuals, not entire ethnicities, should be held accountable for their actions. Reducing a national issue to tribal banter only deepens division and distracts from addressing the real problem—drug trafficking itself. As Nigerians, unity is our strength; tribal finger-pointing only weakens us all.
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