Unfortunate Demise Of Rallying Ace Asad Khan

Let’s take a moment and walk step by step through this silent yet loud case.

The Asad or rather Kalulu as many refer to him and Maxine Wahome crisis. Yes, you read it right, crisis. The exact meaning of a crisis is a time when a difficult or important decision must be made and this is exactly what this is. Call it what you want but in lay man’s language this is a man battered, injured and despite efforts to nurse his injuries by medics, Asad has been sent to his grave whether it was written or meant to be this way as people believe or not. He’s gone.

Funny, had it been a female who lost her life in such a cruel manner whether in the hands of their ‘lover’ or stranger, the world would be in chaos from social media campaigns to banners and posts of angry individuals crying for the right of that single soul that’s gone. We can come out and confidently say that this is a GBV issue but because it’s a man we stay silent. No, we never got to hear both sides of the story and surprise, now we’ll hear one side of the story which we’ll obviously never know whether it’s all facts. ‘It was self-defense’ will be the way out as it has always been and will always be.

Our society has become a man eat man society and worse, any man coming out to defend another will always be regarded as a chauvinist but what is so wrong with being a chauvinist? Why have we made it so weird that it’s a taboo for everyone to collectively stand up for men. Why do we have to remind them that they should ‘man up’ or the old school toxic way that they are masculine and ought to stay strong that this is life ‘show no weakness’.

We’ll never know what transpired between the two and who are we to judge? Question is why are we silent? Why is it fine and okay for her to be bailed out but a man in her position would never be gratnted that even if he offered all the gems he had. Why is no one shouting ‘justice for Asad’s life’?

His case will not be the last nor is it the first. Asad is gone. Your brother, husband, son, uncle or father is next in line we just never know when. Let’s a take a moment to ask ourselves one thing, will taking a life ever justify us defending ourselves? So what next after you’ve ended their life?

We’ll forget his story almost as soon as next week but would you recover from it if it was someone you endeared?

So I dare say justice for Asad Khan is justice for all good and genuine men out there who are in danger because they were born men and expect to be firm and strong while being mistreated by a female. We remember all the women beaten to death by a man but when was the last time you felt remorse for that man beaten up by a female and died or was too scared to come out because of how society, who by the way is us, will see him?

I leave the cursor blinking because what more can I say we’ve chosen to be blind to his story. So be it!