Dear Citizens of Nigeria, I wonder ... I just
wonder! What do the Denizens of the National Assembly think it means to be
elected into those exalted chambers?!
To be elected into the hallowed precincts of those
much sought after chambers is to be given an opportunity to prove oneself in the
annals of the Nigerian socio-political terrain! Those who mess up their names
or disregard their own integrity for filthy lucre or transient power, posterity
will judge harshly.
Senators are supposed, we were told, to be
distinguished elders, reputable lawmakers and venerable statesmen. My
dictionary tells me that to be distinguished means to be capable of commanding
great respect! These are select, privileged men who define the thrust of
national policies - national direction - and who underscore the realities of
the moment, as they blaze the paths to a glorious future for our darling beleaguered
Nigeria. An adage from South-western Nigeria avers that the elder cannot be
present in the marketplace and at the same time turn a blind eye to the infant
whose neck is twisted at an unnatural angle behind its mother’s back.
Not so for the Elders of Nigeria: they are a
great disappointment and embarrassment to the youth of this generation – they
would rather play with their proverbial fiddle (undiscriminating phallus frolicking with terrified, under-age girls) while the
nation could be totally incinerated, for all they care! They are the pristine
white chicken which disdains its own principality in the congress of speckled fowls!
Now, they have metamorphosed into the
proverbial blemishes on our love feasts! They have proved to us all that a good
number of them are mere pervs in
flowing white "agbadas". They are paederasts, or paedophiles, in
modern parlance - men who criminally lust after little girls who still ought
to be sitting down on Mommy's laps at home, learning how to be girls - not to
talk of learning how to be women prematurely!
Unfortunately, these are the kind of men we
have entrusted with the guardianship and upgrading of our constitution - the
corpus of laws which guide our corporate existence as a nation. Are we being
told that they are so clueless or uncaring about pressing national issues like
the ailing economy, the death-traps called roads, the stagnating force of
erratic power supply on the economy, the deadlocked, comatose state of the
academic sector, the alarming geometrical increase in youth unemployment, its
inevitable effect and what it portends for the general security of Nigerians
and hard-nurtured investments and the debilitating state of the health sector?
We are being made a laughing stock in the
international community by those people we have entrusted with the protection
of our collective dignity and commonwealth. These men in speckless white agbada
are actually decked in speckled reputations, tainted speech and dappled
characters, while the evil they perpetrate and perpetuate behind the scenes are
best termed precursors of physical abominations and spiritual horrors! They
have been known to shamelessly legislate for the feathering of their own
pecuniary nests with resounding “ayes” while they callously chorus “nays” to
the commonwealth of the less privileged majority of the electorate. They have
been known to throw caution to the winds in the quest for personal aggrandisement!
They are undoubtedly distinguished in the art and science of treachery and
self-centredness.
Moreover, I wonder at the criminal quietude, or
should I say, indifferent complacence of the other [un]distinguished Senators in
the [un]hallowed chambers, who are not in obvious support of this attempt at
constitutional suicide – especially the womenfolk amongst them! Do they not
know that silence on their part, at that level is tantamount to a tacit
agreement?
Again, this trouble-invoking, rabble-rousing
hirsute Senator, who has despised his own seniority, dignity and maturity –
like (permit me to allude to) the Biblical Esau, who despised his birthright,
all for a paltry plate of his Edomic
red pottage - to espouse himself to a poor under-age girl by invoking his
wealth and affluence to bedazzle her poor Egyptian parents due to their
impecunious circumstances; he has infected his peers with the unreasonableness
of his impunity and indignity. He goes around with a shameless swagger,
figuratively-speaking, dancing in the nude, touting his lettered ignorance like
a conspicuous deformity on his forehead for all to see the hopelessness of the
blackened deviousness of his soul.
I actively loathe it when people dogmatically
and manipulatively tout religion, culture or freedom as the basis of their
arrogant desecration of all that is human, humane and dignifying within us (as
is the case with Abubakar Shekau and his brutish, brainless, bloodthirsty Boko
Haramic hordes as well as other terrorist groups; those who seek recognition on
any level for homosexuality as a way of expressing one’s ungodly and unnatural liberty
in the society; and female genital mutilation, ignorantly called female
circumcision!).
What precisely would an under-age girl (no
matter how precocious she might be) know about marriage - the institutional preserves
of more experienced adults? Or how to
manage a man and his complicated sexuality, a home, in-laws and outlaws
(extra-marital incursions and excursions) and her largely-unexplored budding sexuality?
Even the adults, with all their so-called
maturity, we see the puzzled despair which they make of their marital forays,
not to mention a naive, impressionable under-age girl! Apart from this,
medically-speaking, under-age girls are physiologically and emotionally not
prepared to accommodate the burden of bearing children - a stupid case of
children bearing children! Of course, this accounts for the high prevalence of
Vesico Vagina Fistula (Plural Fistulae) (VVF) disease amongst women in the Northern part of the
country.
VVF is a grossly embarrassing and agonising health
condition prevalent amongst under-age girls who got pregnant and delivered
children when their reproductive organs were not yet fully developed to bear
the strain of the child-bearing activity - an incontinent disease in which the
afflicted woman cannot control the flow of urine due to the damage to her
urino-genital tracts.
It goes without saying that these evil men with
plastic smiles, in their flawless flowing robes and flawed psyche and conducts,
do not care - in their callousness - if these girl-women suffer such pain,
humiliation and indignity.
Sometimes, I tend to wander in my wondering (as
I do wonder in my wanderings) if there are bizarre undertones of ghastly and
ghoulish human rituals that many of these men in power are nationally infamous
for. What pleasures are to be derived from the puerile innocence of little
girls beat the imagination.
But here we are, again, at this obnoxious
triple junction which confuses the native not to mention the stranger! Again
our leaders are forcibly thrusting our heads - baptizing us - in the creeks of
ignominy and pandemonium, as legislators in saner climes brainstorm on the best
ways and best practices to take their people forward - ours are pandering to
their jaded libidos and lascivious natures.
The “man” - or humanity, if you feel more
comfortable with that term - in every one of us will die if we do not humiliate
them and silence their legislative impunity with the uproar of our collective
national indignation. We put them there to make laws that will suit us, not to
please themselves. We must protect our tender girls from the vicious arms of legalized
rape and constitutional defilement. Our girls must be given the right to be well-balanced,
well-educated, well-groomed and to make their own choices of career and marital
partner in life.
To this end, the Senate President, [General]
David Mark, must influence his “distinguished” peers in the Senate to
unanimously tender their unreserved apologies to the entirety of the Nigerian populace
and promise not to descend so low to such a nadir of obscenity and corruption
next time. They must promise to promote legislation that will bring progress,
development, advancement, peace, unity and prosperity to the good and
hardworking people of Nigeria who voted them into their distinguished offices.
