Uncle!
Uncle! Their voices came ringing like the early bell of the morning mass précising
through the wee morning hour; they were my nephews whom in the joy of their
excursion came to narrate to me on how they visited the zoo.
These
young lads were narrating their ordeal of how the monkey attacked one of them
who had a biscuit on her hand. Unfortunately for the girl, another monkey
seeing how stingy the girl was by refusing to give out the biscuit, came
straight away and collected the biscuit. This resulted to the girl crying and
the guider extorted that the monkey eats everything human beings eat.
Sternly
within myself, I laughed. This scenario reminds me of the present situation in
our country, where animals have in turn dined and wined with human beings. This
gave me a provoking thought making me to believe if the allegorical novella
of George orwell in animal farm had this
country in mind when he was writing his master piece.
For
series of time, we have heard silly and
unimaginable stories that have gone viral via the social networks of how monkeys,
snakes, rats and hyenas have overnight turned into billionaires and we tend to
take it hook line and sinker.
Firstly,
it started with the stories of how the rat invaded the presidential office and destroyed
the office. Not quite long after the rat saga, snakes came into the scene as
the agwọ n’elo ego 1 of the federal
republic of Nigeria, making away with N36million from the jamb office. I
wonder if the government has grown so incompetence that they lack the capital
to maintain a dry cleaner who could get the grass around the office trimmed or
could it be that the government lacked money to buy anti snake since snakes are
now their new co-worker. Although a story had it that one senator came to the
office too with the anti poison to actually get the snake to vomit the money. But
the question is, did he eventually get the snake?
Shortly
after the snake incident, senator Sani revealed that 70million belonging to the
northern senators was made away by a monkey at senator Adamu's farm in Nasarawa
state. Imagine such stories as if we have turned to kids who enjoy moonlights fairy
tales.
Most
Nigerians find this funny, for Christ sake this is no longer a funny jokeoo. The
handshake has crossed the elbow. What will the world think of us? A country
where animals become millionaire? Oh! For crying out loud, these people should
stop deceiving themselves thinking they are deceiving us. Days are gone when
one says anything and he is believed. People are now educated and learned. We
Nigerians don’t even know what to believe again. Our information panel cannot
be trusted any longer. There is lie every where. Why won’t there be when we have
Lai as our information minister. People open their mouth to say unreasonable
and illogical statement to cover up their evil deeds and practices.
Where
will this lead us? When will Nigerians be done with animals business? When will
lunacy come to an end? When will animal cease to be blamed for all the woes of Nigeria?
What
are the causes of animal madness and addiction to money? We Nigerians have made
enough fun of these incidents. We should get serious and tell ourselves the
human truth.
We
seem to be in the era of animals greater than man. Mais les Ngérians
peuvent-ils j’amais vivre ὰ labri de la tyrannie de leurs maîtres des animaux?(
but can Nigerians ever live free from the tyranny of their animal master.
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| C’est ton ami Collins Frank (DROGBA) |
