By Adedokun Seyi
Yes! We deserve it. Don’t we? In fact, what we deserve as a country is supposed to be worse. The torment, which is as a result of the longevity our lackadaisical attitude is been justified by our actions to be innocent till the end. I find it difficult to believe a world in which we live, where history becomes a norm to repeat- can’t the button be stanched?
We speak about peace, talk about peace and even rehearse peace. But at the point of action where the play is expected, we end up reacting as if it was in a dream that we had the rehearsal. Reading from books of history, people had explained some past elixir and the advantages of xenia. Also, the talks of bastardisation and events in the inner chamber have been a challenge to me. It is impossible to read about the past without finding higher percentage of bitterness than a quarter of baked sweet savour of fortune.
Reading through the book; Power, Politics and Death, about half of an half way, I stopped. James Ibori saga, and now Andrew Yakubu; the assumed thief of a generation. I’m not here to discuss their issues. It will only make me partial if the likes of Saraki and his cohort are not mentioned. But what is happening in our locality is also the event of the general world. I’ve had a chat with some so-called institution elders who say they don’t do the inner politics. And I assume that they’ve been trained to kill and make people surrender by force outside the cocoon. Every day, new generation of sons of Babylon arise to grant us a quick response to our leadership wants.
What do I mean? The likes of these animals of corruption are amidst us forever. Even the state loyalists of Delta, despite the discordant of 2007, still have a sided like for his return. Adams Oshiomole once said Boko Haram are wriggling which I never understood. But experience has given me an inkling of the power of the wriggle. An observant individual will discover that the most poisonous state of a snake before it dies is the wriggling prospect? Ibori’s arrival exposes the fact that corruption rise continuously in Nigeria. And if he never came back, corruption will still possess the double head of a cobra. Then, what’s our hope in Nigeria?
A riddle I once solved went in the line of “what is always coming but never arrives?” I figured the answer to be tomorrow. So, let us talk about the youths, who our elders call the leaders of tomorrow. When they call us the leaders of tomorrow but they never bow out of office, and the like of Jammeh are still extant. They still call us leaders even when it is glaring that is just a dream. What is our hope? In some years to come, the law of Karma will act. Writers will continue, nemesis will befall those who do not want a better life for everyone. A goat like Nebuchadnezzar is just an example.
Where are the wailers and those that turned protest to solidarity at Aso villa? What are they thinking? That life will not end? Or that if they die, they’ll only rust and disappear? I beg you not to believe the reality in hell, people like you end up having an eternal rehearsal. I don’t know much about Andrew Yakubu, but the fact that he’s still in the custody of those lawful or legal thieves to help him in investigating his crime, the law has went against itself. What about the concept of one not judging his own case? We have given our right to the birds and turned a whole country to a village square where the elders only settle a case and tell the two parties to hug each other and go. No! Is there no punishable act? If there is no law again, let us know. Or is the law only against the poor? This man is supposed to be thrown into hell.
When these ilks are spared, youths learn from their deeds. Our age learn so fast that we have the tendency to fly high in corruption with the audience of all these lecturers of impunity and selfless corruption. There is no tomorrow, no expected future, it is already here.
