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Between 2018 and 2021, Dangote trucks turned the roads around AAUA into a slaughter ground. Each crash was a massacre, bodies mangled, blood on the road, and scenes that clung to your mind long after you closed your eyes. That day, I was at Benji’s brother’s shop with the guys, printing documents for our final-year clearance. We laughed, and we caught up, Benji wanted us to stay a bit longer. “We’ll talk more when you come back,” he said. The plan was simple, drop the documents at the senate building, then return to catch up fully. We hadn’t even been gone ten minutes when the whispers about another accident at the school gate started. The culprit was the same as always, a Dangote truck. This time, it had crushed the row of shops beside the gate, wiping out every roadside trader in its path. When the dust settled, Benji and his brother were among the dead, including the then SUG president. One moment, we were sharing laughs. The next, all that was left was silence, wreckage, and the stench of death.

What’s that one thing you can’t leave no matter the negative pr?