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‘Omo n’iyi omo n’ide,
Omo l’asehinde to ba d’ale..’
That’s the opening track of the juju musician, General (Prince) Adekunle’s record waxed in 1975. His band was named The Supersonic Sounds.
The album gives us an insight into the wonderful world of children.
Today is children’s day in Nigeria.
Great, isn’t it?
Children will have the opportunity of listening to promises upon promises by politicians. They will go through the ritual of march-pasts.
I can remember when I was a gangling lad, we would give anything to join the march past, either with my school or as a member of the Boy’s Brigade.
Initially, it was at the Tafawa Balewa Square. But then, with the emergence of so many schools and Non Governmental Organisations it started being organized in several other places.
The final straw that broke the camel’s back was when the capital of Lagos State was moved to Alahusa in Ikeja and Nigeria’s capital was moved to Abuja.
What were we given for our troubles?
I think it was a bottle of soda and a pie which happened to be the cheapest!
But let’s thank God for His little mercies.
New times are here. That’s why this government is moving us to the next level.
All children will enjoy scholarships. In other words, education has become free.
And what’s more, all schools now have state of the art libraries. Each local government has twenty or more libraries.
The school feeding system is so desirable that other countries are sending delegations to learn this brilliant idea of the Nigerian government.
Children are now the priority of government. In fact fifty per cent of the budgetary allocation is going to education and youth matters.
Children need not fear kidnapping, maltreatment, trafficking or even slavery because our government has thought of everything.
Could someone wake me up?
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