[TRIBUTE BY TUNDE ADENIJI] Shola Omoshola: A story that needs to be told, a hero that needs to be known | TheCable
October 12, 2022 11:03 PMThis Tuesday, October 11, 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari conferred national honours on Nigerian citizens and foreign nationals who have distinguished themselves in their respective professions in contributing to national development.
Akinola Sola Omoshola was a man who lived and made the ultimate sacrifice for his mission to reform aviation security and policing in Nigeria to those who revered him or a rebel without a cause , to those who didn’t. We were told that the IBB government invited him to return home in 1987 to help reform aviation security.The good doctor probably shared Thomas Hobbes famous argument that without government, life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”.
The Home News of New Brunswick published a fantastic back story on Omoshola in its July 19, 1983, edition. Shortly on arrival in America, he was so impressed with the relatively high spirit of service of the US police compared to their Nigerian counterparts. It moved Omoshola to change his initial study choice from food science to criminal justice and he would later obtain a PhD in law enforcement.
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