A teacher named Michael Oyedokun was abducted from a school in Oyo State on May 15. By Sunday he was dead. His family issued a statement on Tuesday asking Nigerians to stop sharing the video of his execution. His children are sitting exams.

The attack on Ahoro-Esinele in Oriire Local Government Area took 46 people. 39 students and seven teachers, some children as young as two years old. It targeted a secondary school and two primary schools simultaneously. Coordinated, in broad daylight, in the South-West.

A rescue operation was launched. Soldiers, police, Amotekun Corps, and local vigilantes went in. They encountered improvised explosive devices planted by the kidnappers. Several were wounded. The operation stalled. The hostages are still in the bush.

Six suspects have been arrested. They're described as informants who guided the kidnappers through forest routes via telephone while the operation was underway. That's not a small detail. It means the attack had inside knowledge and local logistics. It wasn't random.

Governor Makinde confirmed the killing of one teacher on Sunday after a video circulated on social media. He said the state was willing to negotiate. President Tinubu called it barbaric and said a breakthrough was expected soon. Atiku Abubakar issued a statement saying Tinubu cannot govern by hiding corpses.

Statements. Condemnations. Expressed willingness to listen to demands.

Meanwhile Michael Oyedokun's family went onto social media to ask people to stop sharing the footage. His children are sitting exams while the video circulates. That specific detail is what this looks like at the human scale. Not the security structure. Not the press briefing. A family asking the internet to give their father some dignity while the state figures out what it wants to do.

The Borno attack from May 15 took 42 students from GDSS Mussa in Askira-Uba. Northern senators warned publicly against another Chibok. That comparison is not rhetorical. Leah Sharibu is still in captivity. The Chibok girls who were never recovered are still not home. The people making the Chibok comparison know exactly what they're invoking.

This is where the argument completes itself. The same primary elections that ran this week selected the senators who will vote on the security budget, the military allocation, the state of emergency powers. Those elections just confirmed the same people who have overseen twelve years of mass school kidnappings are the ones continuing to oversee it.

Michael Oyedokun's name was Michael Oyedokun. He was a teacher in Oyo State.