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So, Nigeria’s President has granted presidential pardon to 175 people and it’s raising quite a stir among critics.
Let’s start with Herbert Macaulay the great, a nationalist, politician, surveyor, engineer, architect, journalist and musician, the Ogoni nine Ken Saro-Wiwa and co. and Major-General Mamman Vatsa who were all granted posthumous pardon.
In the asotunsosi manner, the alleged-victims of Ogoni nine were also honoured.
The others consist of mainly those who have committed one crime or the other. They include people smugglers, murderers and drug dealers.
If the presidency could remember Macaulay, who was sentenced under colonial laws of injustice, why didn’t it remember those killed extra-judicially by the Buhari military regime.
However, the meat of this piece isn’t even that.
As far as I’m concerned, God is granting ordinary Nigerians prayers by touching Aso Rock’s heart. Nigerians should not stop praying so that we would be granted presidential and gubernatorial pardon and rats will be chirping like rats and beds squeaking like birds.
We need pardon for our farms to be in operation and people to be able to eat.
We need pardon for our farms to be equipped with tractors, plows, threshers, seed drills, planters, combine harvesters, forage harvesters, forklifts, grain augers and conveyors, manures, manure spreaders and loaders, sprayers, rotary cutters, feeding equipment, irrigation systems, silos and construction of rural roads.
We need pardon for the establishment of modern farm estates so that our graduates will cease wandering around in search of jobs that are not available.
We need pardon for adequate security to be provided so that people will not be dying or wounded at the hands of criminals.
We need pardon so that our healthcare as provided by hospitals would be top notch.
We need pardon so that we’ll be able to enjoy other basic amenities like potable water, electric power, affordable petroleum price, food, jobs, and our salary should be able to take us home.
I’m thinking of a time when Nigerians will be proud to say their prayers have been answered. and the pray-ers will know so!
Omo baba tani ni’se wu?
