SERIES: THE POETRY OF JOHN ODEY ADUMA, FROM THE TREE BY THE RIVER
Flood, flood, flood everywhere,
And no route of escape
Nor a place to which we shall escape.
Therefore, we will remain here with the water,
We will remain here with this water
Unmoved, unbowed, uncowed, but stoical,
for this place – VENICE;
is our home
and our inheritance.
In the Part 2 of: Danger Ahead! Returning to Road ’66 is risking becoming a conflict zone perpetually…be warned, fellow Nigerian; now given a new title as above, JOHN ODEY ADUMA excavates and dissects the past, especially the volatile events of 15 January 1966 and the so-called revenge killings of July 29, 1966, and taking a hard look at the current state of anarchy arising from amongst other things, the abandonment of governance and abdication of responsibility by the captain of the ship of the Nigerian State, Sunni jihadist, Khalifa MUHAMMADU BUHARI (BABA DO NOTHING) - a notorious land robber, and peeping into his oracular glass, confirms that the current state of things coupled with the now pervasive persecution of Nigerian citizens by fellow citizens in their own country bears the semblance of the ‘60s, whereupon he sees Nigerians consciously on a lamentable journey back into that zone of the nation’s political pacific ring of fire – the zone of political volatility, ever known for its hyper-sensitivity, high flammability, supra volatility and supra-eruptibility.
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To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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