The innocents

– See those who come to equity must come with clean hands. Imagine the amount of money Sanusi spent hiring maiguards?– Twenty innocent girls. They could’ve been my sister, your daughter and yet they have been kidnapped. Where is our national sense of shame and outrage?– Ha, I knew that that Sanusi man couldn’t be […]

– See those who come to equity must come with clean hands. Imagine the amount of money Sanusi spent hiring maiguards?
– Twenty innocent girls. They could’ve been my sister, your daughter and yet they have been kidnapped. Where is our national sense of shame and outrage?
– Ha, I knew that that Sanusi man couldn’t be as clean as he dresses. See, even the palace is jubilant over his suspension and yet, some people are shouting it is wrong.
– Twenty girls. One of them could’ve been this country’s own Margaret Thatcher or Indira Ghandhi or even Mother Theresa. Twenty girls.
– What is this 20 girls you’re shouting instead of following the revelations about Sanusi? I know you never see anything wrong with your Hausa/Fulani kinsmen. Wait until they start killing your own folks too.
– The girls are silenced but their souls cry out for justice. Their bodies seek the warmth and care of their parents but their future is ruined, their youths betrayed for a war they know nothing about. Where is your angst my nation?
– Okay, who are these 20 girls?
– The 20 Borno girls abducted by Boko Haram for nearly a month now and nobody tells us anything about them.
– Oh, you mean boko people? Oh, so, they have started taking their rewards on earth. Ehn, that’s not a bad thing. Maybe they’re not sure they’ll make paradise after all the atrocities they are committing in the name of God. But that issue is stale news, you should be following the latest.
– What is more current than news of the abduction of twenty female members of Lugard’s House? And not a word from our president.
– He’s a busy man.
– None from his two in-house spokesmen; none from the youth ministry; women affairs; defence…just silence.
– No, no, no. Don’t get it twisted, they are all working. In fact, the presidential media team is working full-throttle. The president has taken time off his presidential tour of churches and traditional rulers to host a media chat. I understand you if your problem is that the Shehu of Borno has been excluded, but so were the kings of the southeast until recently when the president went to Onitsha. But as you can see, in Onitsha, patience paid off with a bridge over troubled waters.
– Why build a bridge for secessionists? Didn’t they say that the Naija C of O has expired this year?
– That’s another matter for another day. Don’t be in a hurry to condemn Mr. President. Have compassion for the presidential fleet.
– Why?
– They’ve been working overdrive lately.
– Yes, isn’t that what they’re paid for? Besides they are logging in flight hours that would help them land juicy careers as commercial pilots in future.
– And…
– I haven’t finished, it’s also good for the 11 jets in the presidential fleet. They’re being used so we won’t have to pay for expensive repairs.
– For what purpose? For sermons on pulpits and tours of palaces? Is that what we voted him there to do?
– Voted? Did I hear you say voted? What’s your vote worth? God is in control. Look, the president said if not for prayers, this nation would have been deleted. Let’s pray for the president.
– I don’t blame you; I blame the pastors.
– Why?
– Did you not hear that Jesus made a whip of ropes and chased the merchants from the synagogue? In our country, the clergy is part of the problem. They cede their pulpits to questionable characters and political campaigners.
– My friend, it’s the president we’re talking about here. And the pulpits belong to the overseers, they can do with it whatever they want, they can cede it to the devil if they so desire…well, for a presidential offering. Do you know what that means?
– I won’t let you draw me into blasphemy. Twenty innocent girls are warming the loins of boko haram fighters as sex slaves, their future blighted and you’re here arguing about Sanusi and questioning bishops when you have no license to preach. So, what do you want the president to do? Head a presidential search party and get killed in another man’s war?
– Oh, so it’s another man’s war?
– Ehen nunu, your northern elders created the war out of spite and anger at losing the presidency. They have the capacity to stop it.
– Really?
– Yes, by a wave of the hand. But they are criminally silent; all they talk about is power shift. They should lead the search party, put the issue on the top burner and the rest of us would follow.
– Yardy ought to have left the Delta on fire for Jones to clean up if the logic is that every man should clean his backyard shit.
– You’re on your own o, abeg. See even a prominent lawyer justifies Sanusi’s sack.