Saturday 15 November 2014

A concatenation of my thoughts

In the space of 3 to 4 days, we had at least a major BH attacks per day on the citizens of Nigeria and while BH attacks have earned a regular slot in our news bulletins, I always try to put myself in the shoes of the victims and their relatives. Whenever I do this, it sparks up reactions that are fast becoming eroded by the frequency of disasters all around us. 
This week, I have had to do this twice and these are the words I found to express my emotions: 


MONDAY
I am tired of this rubbish! Ahn Ahn! What is it sef? Every day some animals blow up people as if they are rocks that need to be blasted in a quarry! Yet our government and people are silent, parading themselves for 2015 election!
 If the Federal government cannot provide security in Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Gombe, every other state in this country and stop this crazy trend that is fast becoming a norm, let them forget 2015 election! 

Let GEJ, TAN, Protectors of Nigeria's Posterity and all other supporters stop wasting our money on campaigns!
 It's sad to think that they'll even talk about elections in the ears of Northern Nigerians ( and of course in the ears of every Nigerian) when daily, we mourn our people!

I cannot imagine what would be going on in the mind of a people whose government has failed to protect them, yet ask to be reconsidered, let alone be re-elected! 
 It's appalling and totally unacceptable! 
They should be slapped, stoned and mobbed! All of them! 
 Biko, we demand to be protected!
 Going to school has become a crime and yet they say they are protecting our posterity! 

Where's the future when our children are ignorant and uninformed?
 What is there to preserve? 
 What do they look forward to preserving? 
A country that is a shadow of its old self and loves to bask in that faded glory? 
 We demand to be protected! 
We demand that Boko Haram be taken care of! 

It's our right and the responsibility of our government! 
 If they won't be responsible, then they can't be re-elected! 
 Enough is Enough! 
Our girls are still missing!
 Our children are still dead and more are dying! Yet they parade themselves in our faces! 
 What nonsense! 



FRIDAY
So GEJ had his rally a day after scores of children were blown to pieces in their schools? 
And people keep wondering why I can't stop ranting about our president!  
I don't know if I am in this alone, but would it be too much to postpone that declaration in honour of these dreams that were suddenly killed under his watch?

Would it be too much to ask? 
That a father should mourn openly his lost children?
That a leader should show empathy about the decaying condition of his institution?
Are we asking for too much?
Shouldn't GEJ be sensitive to the pains of the people of Yobe and Gombe? 

Why can't he see what we see?
Why can't he feel what we feel?
Has he become so far above that he can't relate with the realities of the common man anymore?
Has he forgotten so soon, how he felt when he had no shoes? 

I am at a loss for words to describe my uttermost disappointment at this display of insensitivity by the Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria.
Even if he is so ill-advised, shouldn't there be a voice of reasoning from within?
How much more before tyranny sets in?
Nigerians, THINK! 

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