- The Idiocy and Childishness of Frequent Protests and Strikes in a Massively Haemorrhaged Economy and in a High Voltage, Highly Inflammable, Super-active, Super-sensitive and Super-eruptive Polity
SLEEPING PHAROAH: Awake O sleeper!
“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy
“Protest is the handmaiden of democracy.”
- John Odey Aduma.
In this national postmortem on the just concluded 10-day nationwide protest, JOHN ODEY ADUMA writes that protest is a serious democratic enterprise and should be taken and conducted so, and as a sacred democratic business, it must not be left in the hands of nkwenkwes, lest it be stretched to a point of reckless and infantile radicalism as exhibited by the ever lonely, but company and headline-seeking mindless and ignorant school prefects with stunted growth who have since birth refused to grow up.
Warning that even though protest is the handmaiden of democracy, the nation must be made aware of its polarising toxicity and paralysing (negative) influences on an already comatose economy, hence the proposals below aimed at inducing appropriate legislations to guide the conduct of future protests and protect democracy and the economy.
More worrisome is the fact that we are going to be having an epidemic of protests in the coming days, months and years during the tenure of the BATian administration and as in everything Nigeria, a nation infested with copycat syndrome due to lack of creativity, a situation which is sure to make protest lose its meaning, subsequently its effectiveness as a tool to call authorities to order.
Regarding the call to pray and fast for the nation and its people, what’s the point in the face of the curse of a nation having a profligate government presided over by Amoda Sangodele Ogunlere of Iragbiji (a.k.a Bola Ahmed Tinubu), a man whose prodigality and extravaganza and unbridled dissipated lifestyle are unparalleled in modern times, yet presiding over the most profligate government on the planet earth, with the government over which he presides having no blueprint nor a compass nor a Sat Nav nor a road map, making his anakrija government not fit for purpose and not good value for money; and worse than a drunken driver under the influence of something, galloping down a very steep slope on the undulating highway to perdition and total ruin in a matter of time without a driving licence and insurance?
Then of what good are such spiritual exercises when additionally, you know too well from the very depth of your heart that this same government is without ideas and native wisdom, and all it does is to pursue neo-colonial policies, with such coloniality of policy sure to impoverish our people and subsequently cause the extinction of the Nigerian polity – a sorta ill wind that does the nation and continental Africa and its people no go good? Yet, we must pray, pray, and pray we must for the peace of Nigeria, Africa and the world, for we know not the ways of the heavens!
Again, what is the point of praying when you have thieves, robbers, vultures, locusts and zombies presiding over the affairs of the nation?
Again, before we start praying for our country and for ourselves as Nigerians, I must make you aware that GOD IS NOT WITH THIS EVIL AND WICKED GOVERNMENT, and there’s nothing that will make the heavens soften their stance for the government of Amoda Sangodele Ogunlere of Iragbiji (a.k.a. Bola Ahmed Tinubu) to enjoy the abiding presence of the living God, even the Almighty God, but the Nigerian people will. This is my reason for commanding a fast.
God bless our Nigeria, and happy reading:
PRAY FOR NIGERIA AND A POSTMORTEM ON THE 10-DAY NATIONWIDE PROTEST… THE LEAST DESTRUCTIVE AND DEADLY ALTERNATIVES…PROTEST AS THE HANDMAIDEN OF DEMOCRACY
NATIONWIDE PROTEST: LET’S TRY THE GOD’S METHOD… PRAYER & FASTING, ASKING GOD FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF OUR SINS AND THE HEALING OF OUR LAND
Ezekiel 14:12-23.
Protest is the handmaiden of democracy.
- John Odey Aduma.
EMILOKANISM: FROM NIGERIA TO TINUBUGERIA/BATGERIA
Emilokan unarguably is a vague and ambiguous Yoruba word capable of several interpretations. Even the English interpretation of the word equally operates at the level of vagueness and ambiguity. For example, when a man says: “It is my turn”, what ordinarily did you think he had in mind?
The number one reaction is likely to be: “So what?”
Let’s take the response: “So what?” to be an answer from an unreflective, impetuous teenager acting out their age, exhibit gross infantilism, grandiose naivety, impetuosity and a very high level of immaturity, totally lacking circumspection.
On the other hand, a mature soul, say a middle-aged adult might in their response to the expression/declaration: “It is my turn” be inquisitive and thus probe to know what their interlocutor meant by the word: emilokan or “it is my turn” by asking, “it is your turn for what or to do what?”
Apply the wisdom of the supposed elderly person as above, when Amoda Sangodele Ogunlere of Iragbiji with the hybridized name of “Tinubu”, deceptively and forcefully too, engrafting himself and all members of his nuclear family to the natural family tree of the TIBUBU FAMILY of Lagos, making him now to be wearing the name BOLA AHMED TINIBU like a lace on the neck of Skido of blessed memory in far away Yankee Land, whose Uncle Sam, BAT now beholds to - answerable and accountable, which is why he has rascally and very recklessly too, embarked on his ‘coloniality of power’ and policies, pursuing Westernism, metropolitan elitism, manifesting itself in ogun (medicine) IMF and World Bank as panacea to the multivarious challenges of our beloved Nigeria, which as he colonised, monopolised and ruled over good old Lagos, holding her by the jugular since 1999 till the very present, he has begun to experiment in our Abuja, the only place no one in their right senses can ever whether in a joke situation, talking jocoseriously or seriously dare utter: IGBO MUST LEAVE, thus turning our Nigeria into TINUBUGERIA, rather TINUBUGERIA PLC.
In one of this rottenness playing out now externally, which as a prophet of God, I saw them by revelation and told the nation and the world so in many of my writings ever before BAT gate-crashed into and took his seat in that exalted holy ground of service, but which the nation and the world ignored, the people my sympathy goes to and lie with are members of the natural/original TINUBU FAMILY OF LAGOS - the lineage of the famous Madam Tinubu of Lagos, which in the days when previous generations of the children of Nigeria were taught (about) their roots, she was as a historical figure alongside her exploits taught to every Nigerian child in elementary/primary schools throughout Nigeria. Aaaaah! The good old days.
Just in case you are wondering where I’m heading, rather how I intend to land in this rigmarole, please be made aware that I don’t need to land in their EXECUTHIEVE GOVERNORS’ long abandoned airports or to land in any of those their malfunctioning ANACRIJA AIRPORTS or at JOURNALISTS VILLAGE, EJIGBO, LAGOS, NANJIRYA given by BAT to some established ki le jeku(?) journalists as a bribe or what (?) – please don’t ask me.
Again, did you think like your one thousand locusts, zombies, thieves, robbers, crooks and rogues, I conspired to kill the NATIONAL CARRIER, a.k.a. THE FLYING ELEPHANT? Hang on a sec, elephants never fly, and not sickly, but healthy eagles!
When Nigerians dey hala and ngwun-ngwuniing pe BAT and his men dey harass and detain journalists, they should first gba brake and see the journalists being harassed are rookie journalists, JJCs and unknown journalists hungry to make a name for themselves, to whom economic reality at least for now, is secondary, and not the established journalists – Oga editors dem, columnists perpetually focusing on one politician or another, especially like that ‘buike journalist to partake of the national cake nor members of the editorial boards of the nation’s national newspapers nor any of those so-called veteran journalists, older or younger generation nor frontline journalists, waiting to be called to yonder Abuja to chopulate or awarded contracts or you don’t know they are contract-chasing journalists just like the other contract-chasing Nigerians in the business and the professions?
DECONSTRUCTING EMILOKANISM
Thus, in a nutshell, Nigerians couldn’t decode the hidden meanings of EMILOKAN, for emilokan does not mean: IT’S MY TURN TO GOVERN/RULE, BUT IT IS (NOW) MY TURN TO CHOP, TO MILIKI, TO GBADUN – ENJOY; TO PARTAKE OF THE NATIONAL CAKE AT THE CENTRE AND SUBSEQUENTLY PUT UP NIGERIA FOR SALE, BOTH AT THE LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL MARKETS!
THE SATANIZATION OF SIN, NATIONALIZATION OF CORRUPTION AND OTHER EVILS IN NIGERIA
The ways of Godcondemned Akpabio, BAT, O’BAT & other politicians
The method of satanizing sin and nationalising corruption is Nigeria’s national culture, otherwise to be known and referred to here as NIGERIATITUDE, but more with the fake Tinubus, his band of metropolitan louts/agberos, their cronies and the present crop of Nigerian rulers, not leaders as there is no such a thing amongst them, have perfected the art and science of sin nationalization such that whenever they steal; unsolicited, they would cause the fall of many LONGER THROAT NIGERIANS, amongst whom are your so-called men and women of God – daddy and mummy dem by putting their own APEs (answered prayers envelopes ) through the pigeon holes, spread the Apes to pastors – those longer throat men and women of Mammon in Nigeria, imams, the military chiefs, traditional rulers, their private armies, amongst whom are bandits, agberos (urban and motor park touts and thugs), hired killers, students and their leaders, union leaders, the bread and butter activists (BABAs), journalists/the press, ethnic associations and their leaders, market men and women and their leaders, the civil servants, judges/the judiciary (ME LORDS), politicians and political officials, senators/legislators, etc.
By this method of dragging everybody into sin in the manner of Satan, they have succeeded in corrupting all the Republic! So, how can thieves catch thieves… just tell me, how can one barrawo catch another barrawo?
A MESSAGE TO THE NATURAL TINUBU FAMILY OF LAGOS AND THE FAKE TINUBU FAMILY OF NO KNOWN ADDRESS
It is now high time you demanded back the good name of your family from the fake Tinubus, I mean the hybridized/engrafted ‘Tinubus’ or someone in the natural Tinubu Family of Lagos thought the fake and hybridized Tinubus have not dragged the natural name of the TINUBU FAMILY OF LAGOS in the mud well enough to warrant their saying to the hybridized and fake Tinubus: e do, leave our family name alone and return to Iragbiji; you are not one of us and you lots are not from Lagos.
But why have the Nigerian journalists not been to Iragbiji to trace the roots of the fake Tinubus all this while and expose the ‘Tinubus’ for who and for what they really are?
You see what egunje/keske can do?
and expose the ‘Tinubus’ for who and for what they really are?
AGENCIES OF PURIFICATION AND SAANITIZATION THAT HAVE COMPROMISED THEMSELVES
Christians in Nigeria - Passtorpreneurs- Pastors, priests, deacons
Muslims in Nigeria – imams, sheiks, alfas, other clerics
The Press – journalists/reporters referred to by this writer as kile jeku(?) journalists/reporters/editors or (newsroom ) cattle egrets or Attache Journalists, etc.
Me Lords, lawyers, the so-called activists/campaigners, idle professional protest organisers, trade union leaders, pretended moralists, members of the nation’s editorial boards, some former rulers, the police, the milie and para-milie, senators, traditional rulers, reps, etc, etc.
It is expected that if a man borrowed your pair of suit to a wedding, he is expected to lauder them before returning to the owner, but in the case of the fake Tinubus, they have tainted the good/great name of the original Tinubu family - the ancestors of Alhaja Mogaji Abibatu Tinubu since they stole that name (TINUBU) and had been wearing it like a lace round the neck of dogs, instead of seeking to be connected or reconnected to their ancestral roots in Iragbiji so that their ancestors will be happy with and bless them to be henceforth honest and straight forward instead of perpetually remaining as crooked as crabs!
*To be continued.