The news is awash with the Osodi Chief Tout’s children’s graduation in far away United States of America.
Hmm…
The Yoruba say if a mad man gets a hoe he would first clear the grass towards himself. The late Fuji maestro Ayinde Barrister also sang about a person called a lunatic who did not fail to have the best things life could offer.
This Osodi tout is said to be in amorous relationship with several nollywood actresses.
His foot soldiers are the thugs who sleep in broken down vehicles. Some of them even sleep in sex workers’ dens.
They are hardly educated. But they are boastful about whatever achievements their lord and master makes. They personalize those achievements
Their own children drop out of school for various reasons. That doesn’t concern them.
What concerns them is giving loyalty to their king.
The life of the chief could be said to be a parable for and of the Nigerian society.
You see politicians who are selfishly using the commonwealth to better their own lots. They invest in foreign lands. They even bury raw cash wherever suits them.
They make our people suffer. But then it’s like our people are enjoying their being raped.
Ikan lo ma gbehin ma do mi niso..
Perennial rape will surely end somewhere…
But then, who’s mad here?
The society or the serial rapist?
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