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special advice for the Nigerian commoner, please stick to eating your garri and
kulikuli and flee from all sorts of crime as far as possible because you are
just the
scapegoat the law enforcers are looking for. If you are nursing an
attempt at any crime, please desist, don’t even compare yourself with Evans, if
you do, sorry is your case. Evans will soon be set free just like Bukola Saraki
got acquitted of all allegations. Expect a big thanks giving service from him
soon at one of the cathedrals, you may even go there for a free lunch but don’t
follow his lead. You remember Chief Bode George, even former president OBJ
attended the impressive service after his release.
Do
not give yourself the false impression that crime is for a commoner like you. White
collar and corporate criminals may get away with it (of course they do get acquittals),
an act of minor deviance by someone of your class and social strata will never
ever go unpunished. Don’t say I did not warn you. The experience will never be funny;
in fact you will only recall it from your stinking cell in Kirikiri.
The
Nigerian social system is based on the philosophy of ‘more for the powerful’
where the man in high place gets more privileges; the rich get richer why the
commoner sink lower to the abyss of poverty and misery, staying at the
receiving end of all kinds of societal ills. But don’t give up, there is light
at the end of the tunnel.
The
big shot may eat elaborate meal on an ornate dining table, please sip your garri
with pride, and swallow your fufu and ogbono with dignity. My brother truth is,
there is no nobility in crime. Some may glow in crime let them continue,
remember one of the cantos in Dante’s Inferno, in the 9th ring of hell there are slots for liars,
greedy fellows, crooked politicos, war mongers and haters. Even there is a
special place for those who do not expose criminals. Do you know what this
means?
You
and I have a role of exposing these greedy fellows who never stop plowing
Nigeria like an overused farmland. Your biggest crime is that you ignore what
is happening to Nigeria, by believing that you are innocent. Virgil told Dante
in his odyssey in hell, “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who
maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis”. Just like they already
have places, you also have a slot for doing nothing. A word is enough for the wise. We go
talk later, Kabisa!
By Acheme Ramson
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