Death is becoming cheaper in Nigeria!!
Nigera is gradually becoming a point to busy to live or get busy to die. Almost every day we read or heard about one person or one group of people just passed away.The menace of Kidnapping and banditry business came into our midst to dislodge pipelines vandalism as a crime. A single man kidnap can fetch more money than crude oil theft, so they say! We finally lost moral and our right attitudes to one another.No more value for life or decency as our sense of self-worth withers away when one finds oneself encircled by inopportune conditions. In fact, structural conditions that apparently in the past looked promising turn out to be quite frustrating eventually, particularly for the aspiring youths… Security or armed forces jobs like Army, Airfirce,Navy or Police that was usually like a guaranty license for future comfort and prestige becomes very unattractive and a no go area for men that still value life. Ironically, it is education that sets limits on the realisation of aspiration but nowadays immediate needs is the in thing. “Let me just be rich”is the new song in town…Igbooro ti daru, Every scattered. Everything yanmo, yanmo apology to Idris Abdulkareem. Any way, any how is the order of the day… No one seems to care anymore about tomorrow. Let tomorrow take care of itself .Why would I want to grow up if life is going to go downhill? I think no one will empathize with me was what the youth are saying as they gradually work to see anarchy in the land… Saving or deny yourself of financial recklessness today or choosing to have sound education is no longer fashionable.Who knows who will ever live to see that tomorrow is the only quotation the youths remembered from the famouslate Danmaraya songs. The Alhaji Dan Funtua and Musa Shantali that use to supply us cows in lagos and Ibadan were said to be no more, they were killed by bandits that ravaged their villages. Jiah cha Yamutu was the usual breaking news almost every day and every minute..That fine Mallam, Baba Amid that comes to Lagos usually with trailers of onions and yams to Ketu market in Lagos from Yobe state was reported kidnapped on his way back enroute Kaduna airport road. Lagbaja’s growing enrolment in higher education and the corresponding emphasis on the competitive educational system as the only route for a secured future serve as crucial indications of the continuation of this predicament.That enthusiasm is no longer in our society’s spirit. All of these are no more. Lobatan.. mongana yakare! Everything words don finished!
Everybody now lives in perpetual fear,no more deliberate plan about tomorrow. Malam Jagaba or Sheikh Ibrahim Gussau cannot even nurse the idea of inviting Dr Ola Ifa of Ibadan for holiday. Rotimi of the source of Yorubaland suddenly becomes the one that has no liver to ply lagos to Ibadan even with escorts in daylight, he now needs to plan for days before he drives past Ogere toll gate in Ogun state to Osun state. Everything had turned Jagajaga…Barrister Festus Keyamu, please forgive my choice of words.I am just tired. Everybody from whatever axis North,South or West are now suspect of Boko Haram, Oodua nation today ,upon tomorrow, noise of secessionists every minutes and kidnappers now in brisk bussiness compare to illegal bunkering. It is as bad as that!.
On the parameters of moral common sense, every noble heart seeks to evaluate the idea of death either in terms of living longer or living a short life but for real to live every day in perpetual scars and scare is the worst compared to death which is a necessary end for every created soul.
I honestly feel for those our gallant military officers who lost their lives in the recent plane crash… May their souls rest in peace.
Hon. Rotimi Makinde writes from Ile ife,Osun state with the mindsets that he has friends in every constituencies in Nigeria and so concerns about any soul lost but avoidable with right attitude.
