SATIRE: 2019: The Year to Verify Nigerians' 'Madness'.
Peter Oyebanji
From Pleateau's killings to the incessant disastrous tanker incident then to being knocked out of world cup in a painful way coupled with the report that tickets that were meant for Super Eagles' Supporters were sold out to the Argentine and Icelandish fans by our own football federation, it's been a hellish couple of weeks for Nigerians. Commiserations to everyone that has been affected by these perils.
2019 is one year I'm exceedingly anticipating, because of so many fantasized events. From Game of Thrones to the upcoming elections as well as how I want to see Mancheter United win the trophy that I'm already seeing at "the theatre of dreams." One other thing I'm overly anticipating is to test the veracity of the word "we are mad in this country."
The humorous word "we are mad in this country" is one that we've shown the reality. The word is overused on social medias, one-on-one communication, group chats, et al. Those unimaginable clapbacks, needless rudeness, crazy replies and what have we-the list is unending. Those are one of the ways we liss ourselves as you can't be nursing the thoughts of committing suicide and take a walk on a street in Lagos, you've just crescendoed the thought.
What brings about the liss at first is the mad state of the country. From individuals both learned and unlearned to people at the helm of affairs, there is a level of proness to anomalies in this country. It is here that we have proletariat putting their lives at risk for the apathetic bourgeois, masses are killing masses.
A video about a man using a cloth to stop fuel from dripping from a fuel tanker surfaced online recently, you wanna know who the owner is? Never mind.
We have a president that doesn't react to disturbing issues, he does sometimes, after much pressure. A president that released a speech in his dialect, in a country that is suffering from ethno-religious crisis. A president that disregards the constitution and doesn't see anything wrong with it. His finance minister has been confirmed of forging a certificate, there has been no reaction from the president and it's past three days. If someone that contested for presidency four times before winning can't do very basic things, is that not madness?
There were massacres going on in the country but the police force preferred to go for a politicised mission. SARS (Special Anti Robbbery Squad) prioritizes harrasing and killing of youths inconsequentially over doing their job, in a sane country! It is in this country that almost everyone knows the solutions to some problems yet they are unsolved. The issue of fuel tanker is an incessant one, the ojuelegba incident is an incessant one yet nothing has been done. When a preventable incident keeps killing people overtime, is that still sane?
Senators receive millions of naira monthly but the minimum wage is eighteen thousand naira (18,000), that is really sane, isn't it? The legislative arm didn't know the Nigeria police needs to be checked, until they rough-handled a law maker. They didn't know the president needs to be impeached, until he started coming for them. We know all these, we know they don't care yet we will still vote for them, argh. Who isn't mad here? tell me.
PDP has formed a coalition with other parties, one of which includes politicians that were in both the PDP's 16 disastrous years and this current administration. What I'm saying is they served in PDP, when they saw PDP was losing it and about to get ousted, they moved to APC. Some have gone back to PDP, expecting us to either vote for APC or PDP. It's like eating same meal from different plate, it will still taste the same.
Do you know the worst of these madness? A lot of Nigerians are segmented with the thoughts that either they revote this current administration or they vote in the party that just got voted out, they already have a ready-made excuse of "they are the only realistic option." The excuse itself is a topic for another article on its own, because it's a very silly excuse.
Emmanuel Macron when he came to Nigeria said "democracy can not be written in advance as he is a living witness." That statement doesn't relate to this kind of situation we're creating, a surprise is no more a surprise if it has been revealed. We are the writer of democracy, anything that will be scripted will be written by us.
A yoruba adage says "a foretold war doesn't kill a wise cripple." Are we actually mad in this country? We shall know in 2019.
Peter Oyebanji is A student journalist with OAU KILONSHELE and can be reached through
Twitter: Anderpeter2
Gmail: adewuyipeter50@gmail.com
From Pleateau's killings to the incessant disastrous tanker incident then to being knocked out of world cup in a painful way coupled with the report that tickets that were meant for Super Eagles' Supporters were sold out to the Argentine and Icelandish fans by our own football federation, it's been a hellish couple of weeks for Nigerians. Commiserations to everyone that has been affected by these perils.
2019 is one year I'm exceedingly anticipating, because of so many fantasized events. From Game of Thrones to the upcoming elections as well as how I want to see Mancheter United win the trophy that I'm already seeing at "the theatre of dreams." One other thing I'm overly anticipating is to test the veracity of the word "we are mad in this country."
The humorous word "we are mad in this country" is one that we've shown the reality. The word is overused on social medias, one-on-one communication, group chats, et al. Those unimaginable clapbacks, needless rudeness, crazy replies and what have we-the list is unending. Those are one of the ways we liss ourselves as you can't be nursing the thoughts of committing suicide and take a walk on a street in Lagos, you've just crescendoed the thought.
What brings about the liss at first is the mad state of the country. From individuals both learned and unlearned to people at the helm of affairs, there is a level of proness to anomalies in this country. It is here that we have proletariat putting their lives at risk for the apathetic bourgeois, masses are killing masses.
A video about a man using a cloth to stop fuel from dripping from a fuel tanker surfaced online recently, you wanna know who the owner is? Never mind.
We have a president that doesn't react to disturbing issues, he does sometimes, after much pressure. A president that released a speech in his dialect, in a country that is suffering from ethno-religious crisis. A president that disregards the constitution and doesn't see anything wrong with it. His finance minister has been confirmed of forging a certificate, there has been no reaction from the president and it's past three days. If someone that contested for presidency four times before winning can't do very basic things, is that not madness?
There were massacres going on in the country but the police force preferred to go for a politicised mission. SARS (Special Anti Robbbery Squad) prioritizes harrasing and killing of youths inconsequentially over doing their job, in a sane country! It is in this country that almost everyone knows the solutions to some problems yet they are unsolved. The issue of fuel tanker is an incessant one, the ojuelegba incident is an incessant one yet nothing has been done. When a preventable incident keeps killing people overtime, is that still sane?
Senators receive millions of naira monthly but the minimum wage is eighteen thousand naira (18,000), that is really sane, isn't it? The legislative arm didn't know the Nigeria police needs to be checked, until they rough-handled a law maker. They didn't know the president needs to be impeached, until he started coming for them. We know all these, we know they don't care yet we will still vote for them, argh. Who isn't mad here? tell me.
PDP has formed a coalition with other parties, one of which includes politicians that were in both the PDP's 16 disastrous years and this current administration. What I'm saying is they served in PDP, when they saw PDP was losing it and about to get ousted, they moved to APC. Some have gone back to PDP, expecting us to either vote for APC or PDP. It's like eating same meal from different plate, it will still taste the same.
Do you know the worst of these madness? A lot of Nigerians are segmented with the thoughts that either they revote this current administration or they vote in the party that just got voted out, they already have a ready-made excuse of "they are the only realistic option." The excuse itself is a topic for another article on its own, because it's a very silly excuse.
Emmanuel Macron when he came to Nigeria said "democracy can not be written in advance as he is a living witness." That statement doesn't relate to this kind of situation we're creating, a surprise is no more a surprise if it has been revealed. We are the writer of democracy, anything that will be scripted will be written by us.
A yoruba adage says "a foretold war doesn't kill a wise cripple." Are we actually mad in this country? We shall know in 2019.
Peter Oyebanji is A student journalist with OAU KILONSHELE and can be reached through
Twitter: Anderpeter2
Gmail: adewuyipeter50@gmail.com
Comments
Post a Comment