Confab delegates mourn, dress in black

IN line with the sober mood across the nation, following the bombing at the motor park in Nyanya , a suburb of Abuja on Monday, all the women delegates at the ongoing National Conference holding at the National Judicial Institute (NJI), wore black while the men had black stripes pinned to their clothes.
Presiding, the Vice Chairman, Bolaji Akinyemi said, “it is evident that all is not well with us as can be seen in our dresses today.’’
As deliberation on the security breach that claimed the lives of about 75 Nigerians in one fall swoop went on, the female delegates stood out in their black dresses, and, at every opportunity any of them had to contribute, their mournful mood and their deep sadness was most obvious.

The lamentation and sobriety at yesterday’s sitting was further deepened when the news of the abduction of about 100 school girls in Borno was announced to the house by Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi.
In contributions reflecting their anger, bewilderment and displeasure delegates could not hide their discontent at the situation in the country.
Without exception, they condemned the bombings and kidnapping of the school girls raising questions as to what the military and Joint Task Force were doing at the time the convoy of vehicles taking the school girls away was passing.