The Not So ‘Little’ Tornado That Hit Little Rock In Arkansas, Shows America’s Desperate Moves To Restore Normalcy
The Oasis Reporters
April 3, 2023
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When a “catastrophic” tornado ripped through the metro area of Little Rock, Arkansas, in Pulaski County Friday afternoon according to https://abc7ny.com
the EF3 tornado had winds up to 165 mph and a path length spanning 20-25 miles.
Photo: Reuters.
In addition, ABC7 New York said the Tornado outbreak left 32 dead and dozens injured.
When things calmed down a bit, The Oasis Reporters called up a Nigerian American born resident of Little Rock who told us that “the Tornado ripped through this city. Waking up this morning, things looked like we had been in a war zone”.
She further added that “a lot of people are without power this morning, there’s a whole street that I know which has been out of power, and no one knows when it will be restored. However, they rush to restore power here, sometimes with speed, so they won’t have to compensate customers“.
Well, very much unlike most parts of Nigeria, a nation with large reserves of natural gas. Yet Nigerian power supply for a country of over 200 million people is far less than the electricity that New York City produces.
Little Rock, Arkansas has a huge halo of history behind it. President Bill and Hillary Clinton’s political careers took off in Arkansas and the state capital, Little Rock, is filled with tributes to the former president, the only native of the Natural State who has made it to the Oval Office, according to an online report. The couple and their daughter have been to Nigeria on a visit.
As Secretary of State under President Obama, Hilary Clinton told the press in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city the the opportunities before Africa’s most populous country nation were “limitless”.
Yet Nigeria is still locked in very basic struggles to give the free inalienable voting rights to non indigenous Yorubas to participate in elections in the city of Lagos, the commercial capital.
What happened in Lagos bears similarities with the events that occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 when Children of African Americans were not allowed to attend government funded schools because of the colour of their skin.
The story shall be told in another post later.
Written by Greg Abolo
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