The new trend in the country now is
that Animals are assuming the position of authority in almost all the spheres
of our national life. Time was when rats had to chase the president out of his
own office in order for them to work on presidential duties, not to talk of
when rodents invaded the Aso villa in search of vital documents. A friend once told me that Noah shouldn’t
have allowed Mosquitoes and Snakes to board the ship when God wanted to wipe
the earth with flood, but our God who is an all knowing God knows the event of
time and what will eventually happen.
The case of Animals swallowing
money everywhere has now been a norm to the extent that our politicians can now
find an easy culprit to shift their blames on. The wonderful snake that grabbed
JAMB’s funds, to the monkey that swallowed N70 million naira and the fish that
ate N52 million. In-fact, the fish that swallowed Jonah must be green with envy
by now and blame itself that it should have found itself in the shores of
Nigeria instead of a Nineveh that only had a recalcitrant king that refused to
do God’s bidding.
I presume the animals must have
found out the way our government handles our affairs are not in the best
interest of the citizenry. Since what affects the eye also affects the nose,
the animals decided to come to our rescue by ensuring sanity. I wrote a piece
some time ago about a youthful governor who owes workers in his state several
months’ salary but instead prefers to hobnob with irrelevancies. The same
governor is in the news again when some citizens were dragged to court and the
judge awarded a fine of N1 million naira against the citizens for blocking the
convoy of the governor. These are same people who seek our votes during
election time by playing pranks on its voters. When the animals see this, how
do you think they will feel? They see it as a form of national embarrassment!
Have we also observed the current
faceoff between the executive and legislature where the former sends a nominee
for confirmation and while the later was still trying to figure out if the
nominee was fit for the job, the attorney general of the federation gave an
order to the nominee to resume work whether the legislature likes it or not.
The Animals in their barracks watched all this events with folded hands. We had
a security mess in 2014 where almost 270 girls were kidnapped by insurgents and
in a more advanced 2018, a similar situation repeated itself, and you think the
Animals won’t brood in anger!
In times past when there was a
little misdemeanor on the part of the civilian, we have always had what is
called military intervention, but we do not pray for that again. It seems
everyone is afraid to say the truth or to bell the cat (as if there should be
no opposition again). The few who had the courage had been haunted by the DSS
for speaking against tyranny. A good example was when Atiku Abubakar’s business
was threatened with license revocation! We have heard bloggers being arrested
and the same social media the same government rode on to the corridors of power,
is about to be shut down. What do you think the animals will say when INEC has
reeled out a plan on how to hold elections for the next 55 years when the
current electoral system is not yet perfected?
Since we the humans have refused to
take the bulls by the horns, the Animals have decided to show the way by
restoring some sanity in the system. I think it is time for Animal right
activist to come out and show solidarity with one of their own even as they are
trying to rescue us in critical times like this. Left to me Snakes, Fishes and
Monkeys should be given an award of National Recognition even as we know that
the money being swallowed by them will surely be vomited back to its right
place at the appropriate time. If you think I’m lying, ask Jonah if the fish
swallowed him eternally.
Ayorinde D.
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