POLITICAL SHIFTING CULTIVATION, HERDING, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, AND MONEY RUSTLING by Taiye Olaniyi
Nigeria features peculiarities in almost everything human but most in inhumanness.
Many Nigerian politicians are always inhuman in political practices to such an extent that sane agricultural practices such as shifting cultivation, herding, and animal husbandry are being adopted in politics, especially in partisan politics.
Such their actions are synonymous with a chop and vamoose to another camp, degrade fellow humans to lower animal levels, kill and go, steal and escape, rustle the commonwealth and mingle in other terrains.
We are today in the political era of what Fela Anikulapo termed as “Waki and Die” while the generality of us simply relish and perch on Fela’s song: “Suffering and Smiling”, as “Zombies” much more so in this era of democracy.
Our blood means nothing to them so far they and their families live, reign, rule and ruin.
Our skulls and bones serve as raw materials for their golden portfolios and vaults in which our stolen money are kept.
Our sorrows their soars to higher mantles of power, their migration in droves to greener political pastures, ours as unwanted migrants daily emigrating in droves to points of no return with saddened hearts.
This is where our politicians have reduced us into in their game trade, a bundle of lack of seriousness, indifference and uncaring to woes bestrides, miseries aloof, and genocides impending as we see in Syria, Somalia, and Sudan.
In their shifting cultivation, herding and human disbanding for animal banditry, in their inimical penchant for hustling to rustle all the money left behind, of what values are the scriptures and religious observances therein?
Time is now to think which and what God we proclaim worshiping and how variously our politicians are daily graduating as apprentices in demonism.
Time is now to prove to them and their accomplices that they are like us, mere mortals, and that: ” When Conscienceless power rules over Powerless Conscience, it is the former that first laughs but the Latter laughs last and Laughs Best.”
God Bless Nigeria.
* Taiye Olaniyi, a public commentation writes from Lagos.”
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