The wife of the Anambra State Governor, Mrs. Nonye Soludo, has described as inhuman and disheartening the attitude of bystanders in times of emergencies, which concentrate more on using dire situations to make content for social media, instead of offering assistance.
The governor’s wife who was reacting to the passage of the Nollywood actor, JohnPaul Odonwodo, popularly known as “Junior Pope”, who was involved in a boat mishap on the Niger River, while returning from a movie location, said that the bystanders’ attitudes of neglect during emergencies have cost several lives, which ordinarily would have been saved had people around acted to save lives rather than become emergency movie makers.
Mrs. Soludo who was leading an enlightenment crusade for people to show more compassion to those in emergencies, noted that the late Nollywood star might have survived had people around responded to save lives and paid less attention to generating social media contents.
She explained that common basic life support protocols like cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, would have helped significantly if pulses were noticed, but regretted that those who would have acted as first responders were more interested in using his condition to seek unnecessary public attention.
She noted that the growing nonchalant behaviours of passers-by during emergencies negate humanity and wondered how mankind lost the traditional values of sympathy, compassion, and love.
She prayed for the peaceful repose of the actor and sent her condolences to his family and the Nollywood family.
