So many comments have been made about the randy lecturer. Some have so fittingly described him as Professor 5-5.
While I do not disagree with that description, I want to give him another one. You know that when a new baby is born in these parts, the isomoloruko, naming is usually held on the eighth day. On that day, the tot will receive as many names as the number of people present at the occasion.
Now, let’s look at the orange. A singer even sang that people are ready to take two hundred if the orange tastes great!
I beegi, our man did not talk about two hundred. He only wanted five rounds. I can’t help but remember a popular song on football fields in those days.
Owo melo la fin jeba?
Five kondo!
He may have boasted to a fellow of like minds that he would have nothing less. It reminds me of a church pastor who had given his unholy water to most of his church members.
Our professor is not a man of half-measures. If a person wants a craze, make “him craze proper”,. That’s why he didn’t just stop at the first degree. He went on to bag a master’s and even a Ph.D. He finally attained a scholarly level.
Ojo ti npa ‘gun bo, ojo pe!
On another forum I belong to, we discussed the issue of passionate teachers a couple of months ago. What I took away from that discussion is that so many lecturers believe that while those who were their academic inferiors are doing well in business and politics, they have been left high and dry on the University campus.
They have now, in their warped thinking, resorted to seeing the girls as their fringe benefits. It doesn’t matter if the lady is married.
But is it not a reflection of the larger society?
Our banks and insurance companies prefer using ladies for marketing jobs. They then set usually unrealistic targets for the poor girls. They lure them with official cars, company-paid accommodation and other luxuries. They then send them out to generally male customers.
There was the case of a lady working as an insurance marketer. She had successfully presented her company to a man who had agreed to do business worth millions of naira with the lady then.
The man then asked the lady to meet him at a hotel. To cut the story short, the lady lost the deal when the man asked for sex.
What about politics? Most men will not allow their wives to participate in politics because political meetings are held during unholy hours.
The popular Eegun Mogaji of Apala music, the late Ayinla Omowura, captures the situation very well in one of his bumper albums. He sings about opening a beer-drinking joint for a woman. Of course, it is a way of telling the woman to start prostituting herself. This is because men mainly patronise beer parlours. Under the influence of alcohol, one thing leads to another.
Women are a helpless, endangered species!
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