- Nigeria: A Harvest of Horrors (Part 3)
Pepeye, nigba too m’owe
Ki lo be l’udo se?*
Incompetence weds Corruption
And a dark, unruly tragedy is born
As the Nation thrashes about
Like a snake without a head
Now Bandits stoke our fears
An oil-drenched Nation lacks
The brain to power its progress
A mindless paint-over of a battered currency
Has thrown the nation’s debt-drained economy into a tailspin
The ‘cashless’ country dreamed up by
Emefailure, Chief Witchdoctor of the National Vault,
Has turned Nigeria into the saddest joke of the Universe
From the rocky seat of power
It has been silence, empty, disdainful silence
But why did Luku fight so hard for this Crown
When he knew it was too heavy for his head?
Unspeakable hardships harass our being
Untimely deaths depletes our ranks
There is not a single corner in this land
Untouched by this plague from our mindless Pharaoh
Unhappy the land where rulers cannot THINK
And/or are too haughty to know
The world asks with most the impatient consternation:
Why is Lukuland such a Netherworld of Fools?
Ignorance kills a Nation
Our own is already close to a disgraceful grave
What do you do with/to a Nation
Which so conscientiously disables the able?
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* Oh Duck, why your frantic craving for the river
When you knew you lacked the power to swim?
** For more on Meritocracy and Competence, see Nigeria and I: Getting Politics Right to Make Nigeria Work, by Ladipo Adamolekun