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A letter to President Boko: Ongoing harassment, targeting, and denial of justice

Boko PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG.
Boko PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG.

Your Excellency,I write to you as a citizen who has endured persistent harassment, intimidation, and coordinated attacks that make it impossible to believe that things in our country have truly changed. Despite promises of reform and justice, I continue to face organised persecution that violates both my rights and my dignity.

I am being followed and mobbed by groups of people to and from the university. These individuals act in coordination, creating an environment of fear and hostility wherever I go. I have also been spiked, twice, this year once at an entertainment center and another time by a honey trap clearly deployed to entrap or harm me. These are not random events. They are deliberate and systematic acts meant to silence, humiliate, and destroy me psychologically.

Worse still, every attempt I have made to lodge my case and follow official channels has been blocked. My reports are dismissed, delayed, or ignored altogether. I have been denied access to justice through quiet obstruction the kind that leaves no visible trace but achieves the same goal as open persecution.

Your Excellency, I appeal to you not only as the Head of State but as a man who has long stood for human rights, justice, and the rule of law. I ask for your urgent attention and intervention. No citizen should live in fear, be denied due process, or be left to fend for themselves against organised harassment.


Change is not measured by speeches or new faces in office. It is measured by whether ordinary citizens like myself can live freely without surveillance, coercion, or institutional obstruction. Until that becomes reality, it would be dishonest to say that things have changed.

Respectfully. Kevin Tiro

Editor's Comment
Declaration of assets, liabilities could possibly curb corruption

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