I hear a company has started producing pencils in Nigeria. I hope the company will be gracious enough to also start producing erasers.
Ah tor!
I remember in those days when I was a gangling lad, whatever homework we were not too sure of was done with pencil. That’s because if there was an error, the work could always be erased.
I very much hope the governments commission the pencil making industry to concentrate on the production of erasers.
Why?
The first task is to erase the unrepresentative constitution of Nigeria. Unrepresentative because the people were not consulted before the constitution was commissioned.
Even before then, did Nigerians have any say in this incongruous association which fraudulently became a nation? I guess that’s the main basis of the problems the ‘nation’ is having.
Fast forward to rulership, and even citizenry!
Isn’t it possible to erase the gory details of the crimes that most of our so-called leaders have committed?
The first coup and the retaliatory coup of 1966? The killings and hunger, the inhumanity of the civil war?
Mr Buhari’s sacking of a democratically elected government on the very last day of 1983? The introduction of structural adjustment program and the unending civilianization by the self proclaimed evil genius?
June 12, 1993?
The terror imposed on the nation by the goggled beast?
The present non performance by impostors?
Isn’t it possible to erase the photographs of most of the so-called former rulers?
Lastly, our not being able to say no?
By the way, isn’t it good we are glorifying the manufacturing of pencils? Even Rwanda’s newspapers will have better things to cover not to talk of Ghanaian papers. That’s even talking of African nations.
In which position exactly are we amongst the comity of nations?
I’m quite bothered!
Kindly note, if I’m the only one that stands by my scribblings, I don’t have any apologies.
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