To further buttress the relevance of this article I would add that the Hood does not make the Monk. Recognition is associated with a job well done not to openly show off like an empty drum that makes the most noise.

Secondly the Nigeria roads were not built to accommodate such fanfares but are only built as a passage way. The roads do not have Shoulders or rest areas where other road users could yield incase of emergencies hence I would imagine how the victim in this case had nowhere to go but was brutalized by her fellow countrymen in uniform for no fault of her own. Sirens are only used to dictate emergence in a life of death circumstance not even when a Head of State is passing.

Usually if the President is coming to a city say New York from Washington DC., the general public is given advance notice about the routes he would take. The roads are cordoned off with a de-tour signs so life goes on. A starving person in Nigeria does not give a damn about who the heck is in the convoy but is engrossed with how he/she is going to feed the family.

The use of Siren is outdated and reminiscent of the colonial era and should be outlawed by the modern government. It demeans fellow country men and women as though some people are more important than the others. It is a stratification tool to denote "We and them” with the former as the Napoleon and "them" as the rest of the animals in Animal Farm by George Orwell. You go figure.

Should be banned in all walks of life in the country. Except for the police , medical ,and fire

Thereis no doubt that the use of siren has been abused. In most countries, it is used for emergencies- ambulances transporting critically ill patients (not corpses), fire brigade rushing to put out fire, etc., etc. The use of siren by colonial governors was a show of force to remind the cowed population of their subjugation. Unfortunately, our "elected" officials (even those who had "landslide victories") continued the exercise. Subsequently, the armed forces, private individuals who regard themselves as "bigmen", banks and a host of others imbibed the habit. Over the years, our authorities have paid lip services to banning this obnoxious and irritating practice. Nobody has even come out with a practical solution as to what they expect the masses to do especially in tight situations. Does anybody have the political will to put an end to the bastardization of use of siren? That is the question!