What else can we do except to thank our elected(?) public officers for enabling us to remember the kind of people we are. To a large extent, we are nothing but lightweights.
“Lightweighting” us is actually an understatement.
We are a people who do not have the ability to stand by our principles. Do we even have any principle?
However, in the alternative, we end up falling for the most nonsensical of things.
Below is the picture of a window presented as a project by a serving councillor. I guess, if the Council were to do an almanac at year end, the picture will certainly have a pride of place.
We are so cheap that an elected personality chose to empower his constituents with branded flip flops. The poor people were even pushing each other.
There are times when our representatives will choose to be generous. And generous they are
They end up giving two hundred naira here, five hundred naira there, and the highest they give is a whopping one thousand naira.
Considering the fact that the American dollar is about three hundred and fifty naira, haven’t our representatives tried?
Won fi se wa ni?
Dem swear for us?
When the elected representatives finish their sleazy projects which they embarked on with monies fleeced from the commonwealth, they then proceed on the launching of the ill conceived projects.
They know us.
They know we’ll take it even when they give us nothing.
So, for the nothing which they normally give us, we say a big thank you!
We’ll then contract some musicians to play for us while we sing the song:
Emi la o ni yo si
Ba ti fe ko ri
Bee na lo ri
Emi la o ni yo si
Why won’t we be happy
What we want done
Has been done
Why won’t we be happy
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