A SCENE I HAVEN'T SEEN!

‘Kayode Oyero

"Preservation of self-interest is the first law of nature. If the use of force will put an end to 'our' loss and prevent matters from getting worse, then, let there be no pause." -O.J.O

peace we hope.

Caught in a reflective mood on one of my numerous tours to the forest of intuition, I observed with keen patriotic spirit that to Wazobia, the calmness of peace is like a rare commodity which had disappeared from the market place perhaps when she went shopping.

On a hop down memory lane, one will agree that from the day Wazobia attained independence from colonial domination, the nation's governance suffereth violence and the violent has been taking it by force. As I soliloquy this in sheer silence gazing at the environmental relief that nature benevolently adorned the forest of mystery with, I stumbled on a faithful Wazobia Patriot. That was during a long diurnal walk while coming back from the visitation I had made to the forest of mystery.

He's a mysterious creature! He’s Gani by name. Gani, an activist whose relentlessness at agitating for justice and fairness of the masses of Wazobia had earned him duo SAN titles: Senior Advocate of the Masses and Senior Advocate of Nigeria. Though some people had rumoured his death some time ago, but somehow, somehow, we met somehow.

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Having exchanged pleasantries, I struck the matchstick of the conversation:

“Gani” I said “still on the State Of Emergency issue, my heart reel in bountiful joy and satisfaction that our 'Oga at the top', a person of Uncle Lucky whom I had rationally concluded suffers from narcolepsy sometimes early last month had fully ailed from his affliction. I could recall with precision that he had caressed the consideration of what I termed 'monetary amnesty' in my open letter to the executive tagged: Fg. forgive, but don't give. That was during those trying period when his mental health and that of his cohorts in the glorified national deliberative crib called national assembly faced challenges of nature. I need not dwell too much on such issue that had seen them flaunt their feebleness and indiscretion at matters of national security.” I paused to make it a dialogue affair and not monologue that was when I remembered what Linguists termed 'turn taking' in conversational interaction.

Gani let out a deep sigh. He then broke the code of silence that he had confined himself into. “My good thinker,” he softly professed. “I heard all you uttered. But, I need to be educated as regards this concept of yours. The one you abbreviate as SOE. You know as my people will say that one must know the fundamental of an issue before passing a remark. This, according to them is in order not to succeed in blaming the un-wrong side of a matter.”

“Okay, that's no qualms!” I retorted, proceeding to feed Gani with an understanding of SOE. “SOE is an acronym that stands for State Of Emergency. It's a government declaration which usually suspends a few normal functions of the executive, legislative and judicial powers. Such declaration comes during a time of natural or man-made disasters and civil unrest. It is about the adoption of extra-ordinary measures to restore calmness and peace in a place of unrest at one time or the other as the need calls for it.” I enlightened.

“Now I get you!” he exclaimed “Isn't it the type that Uncle Lucky having secured the unalloyed support of Uncle Mark recently declared upon three terrorist-pitched state namely YOBE, BORNO and ADAMAWA state?”

“Yes, you get it,” I affirmed.

“But, Gani, I must say that even when you seem to now fellowship with people of the opposite world, you're still abreast of national issues as when you bounce on red earth. Kudos to your sharp memory Gani!”

“Thank you my thinker, what can separate me from having issues of Fatherland at heart? Not even when Carnivores are on a quest to devour all the Omnivores in the land. Besides the latest visitor on the side of the world where I now domicile, the literary magnate, Chinua Achebe reliably told me all that recently happened in Wazobia before the terminator of all times struck its hammer on his head.”

“Alright, I thought as much that how come you’re so abreast of issues of Wazobia when you’ve got no informant. Anyways, time is no longer befriending us, now to issues on the front-burner, Gani, what do you generally think of the State of Emergency issue?” I asked interrogatingly with the tact of a news man.

“It's a decision in a good direction. Uncle Lucky has done laudably well for the first time ever since he luckily occupy the seat of power since 2010 when he ousted his boss by luck. Those face-covering guys must be combated squarely. Tough people should face hardened insurgents as against the balderdash talk Uncle Lucky was advocating then saying that generosity should be extended to men who had perpetuated humongous inhumanity to citizens of Wazobia. Trouble must trouble those that trouble trouble,” Gani blurted, his tone laced with aggression.

“What about the noise-makers of the 'SOE AFFECTED STATES' who call themselves Governors among many other paunch-bellied and Agbada-wearing stakeholders cum godfathers who run their mouth in opposition to the stay of SOE in their respective Boko-torn states, what is your word for them?” I pressed.

“Tell them to beware! Tell them not to stir the hornets' nest of the legal profession. As one of my protégé Falana had said in a recent interview he granted Sahara Reporters, I quote: ‘Anybody found liable in this situation as regards defiance to the stand of 'State of Emergency' will be taken to Hague where the International Criminal Court (I.C.C) will do potent justice to their opposition,’ Force saves loss, remember Jos! The state of affairs in the northern part of Wazobia demands the redemptive intervention of the junior brothers of I.B.B. It's becoming unbecoming of Boko! Her tower of Babel must be forcibly lowered! Sound-bite solutions aired on broadcast stations salvages nothing, neither has it forestalled the calamity brought upon the serenity of Wazobia by Boko from festering. Going down history lane, I want you to remember as vividly as possible that the deployment of military force settled the religious schism and land disputes that engulfed and almost wiped out the hitherto hospitable and tourist-friendly city of Jos. If the use of force will bring an end to the callous and unjustified extermination of human lives and the macabre burnings and bombings of property meted on my beloved country, Wazobia by Boko, consequently making her territory experience a gush of peace and stability where expatriates, foreign nationals and tourists will entertain no fear of cruising round any section of the country. Then, let there be no pause!

Wazobia is going extinct!
Something distinct must be done!

The psychical anguish is too much!

Boko’s ambush on the people is insufferable! Her claws must be hand-cuffed’ Gani thundered with a whiff of zeal while he bade me good bye and disappeared briskly, an eternal never-again goodbye, like a chameleon in danger, acclimatizing his skin to the colour of his environment, sending its attackers into an ocean of confusion and delusion.

“So, it's no rumour that Gani is truly and really dead!” I yelled in a mouth-quavering manner, my eyeballs bulgy, almost unhinged from its socket as rains of saliva drooled down my chin, in stunning astonishment.

“Ha! I've been talking with a ghost!” I exclaimed in a petrified tone.

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