[ICYMI] Borno burns, Bayelsa boils, Buhari dey kampe
The muffled weeping is unmistakable. It cuts into the thickness of the night. It sounds so far, yet so near, like wind whistling through a palm plantation. The weeping is so ghostly; so sinister it makes the hair stand on end, sets the teeth on edge, makes the head become heavy and transfixes the feet. This eerie weeping belongs only to the “egbere”, a vicious gnome in Yoruba folklore, who inhabits the forests and moves about at night with a mat.
The “egbere” is not alone. In Ireland, it has a kindred called leprechaun – another gnome – whose pot of riches is highly sought after by the Irish in search of instant wealth. Gnomes are, indeed, universal phenomena, symbolising the existential duality of evil and good. Last week, Nigeria’s “egbere” political leadership was sighted in Ondo town. In this particular instance, it was enveloped in characteristic darkness. It took the halo of a Primary 1 pupil, Dele Rasheed, to shed light on our “egber” leadership’s irresponsibility. Little Dele it was, who exhibited the passion and diligence lacking in governance, taking her school homework to the ATM of a bank beside her residence, to do.
Last week, the “egbere” political tendency moved from Borno to Abuja, where the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnanya Onu, announced the Federal Government’s intention to gift N36m to anyone who finds a cure to the ravaging coronavirus. Onu’s statement sums up how worthless the Buhari regime views the citizenry.
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