OBASANJO LAUGHS LAST, BUT NIGERIANS NEVER CEASE TO CRY 

(By Dr. Bukola Williams) 

 Typical of him, Obasanjo's controversial personality leaves no one in question. When he came up to burst the bubble, calling our law makers not just petty thieves but armed robbers, the lawmakers fired back in defense, throwing missiles back at a man who himself is an atomic bomb. But today, Obasanjo is laughing still, however his laughter like those of his cohorts are tears for Nigerians.
  It appears that our leaders, or should I say rulers, enjoy licking up tears from the eyes of the masses and sucking up the blood of the innocent who are routinely plunged into death by their conspiracy theory of deafness-greed-corruption. Nigerians have become sacrificial lambs upon the political altars of these rulers' selfish exigencies.
  It is only a Nigerian that would prefer prison custody abroad to freedom in his country. Simple, his freedom has been stolen by Boko Haram, militants, kidnappers acting on the orders of their godfathers of political blessedness.
  In Nigeria, a breadwinner is altogether a defence minister, providing security for his family; a petroleum minister, providing fuel for the family's "I pass my neighbour generator"; water resources minister, pushing wheelbarrows with kegs of water; works minister, manually and single-handedly filling up the dejected potholes on the only accessible road to his house. Then all of a sudden, while the innocent family is asleep, a 22-year old plane crashes into their home, killing them all in a split second. Meanwhile, while people mourn, some wicked people smile to the banks with heavy briefcases of proceeds from operating substandard airlines.
Nigeria, where the media have been bought over to promote conflicts through misleading and biased reporting. The Nigerian media remain the number one enemies of Nigeria promoting discord and acrimony in an already fragile and sentimentally compromised entity called Nigeria.
  We woke up and found ourselves in this era when nothing and nowhere is safe (Thank God for being our safety). If you travel by road, the strategized potholes are well positioned to help your journey to Heaven. If you fly, the second-handed three (3) decades old planes are perfectly ready to make you enter into the "Nigerian Bermuda Triangle of No return".
People are now relocating their homes away from the vicinage of police stations because even the police can no longer protect themselves. When you move on the streets you have to watch your steps to avoid stepping on bombs. Then you have to pray hard or say your final prayers before going to church as that could be your last service because gunmen are waiting to help you reach judgment seat ASAP.

 Sometimes you wonder who is saying the truth between JTF and Boko Haram. JTF (probably to assuage their financial sources) will say it has killed almost all Boko Haram suspects, while Boko Haram will refute such claims as frivolous and mischievous, claiming JTF has only massacred innocent civilians. Then before that close of day, another bomb blast with marked casualties would suggest that Boko Haram remains the way they've always been. With increased budgetary allocation to security and yet people not been safe, shouldn't this be shared to all family heads as security bonuses, afterall everyone is his family's Chief Security Officer.
 Who is lying; Obasanjo or the lawmakers? Who's lying; Otedola or Farouk? Farouq (whom we trusted so much as a hope for the common Nigerian) first denied any bribery allegations, then he changed the story and admitted he collected the money but after Otedola pressured him to, and then reported to the police. But just like a lie has many versions, Farouq is like a thief caught with the king's flute but claims to be hiding it for the king. For Otedola, his hands have nearly always never been clean and it takes a thief to catch a thief. So, since only a thief knows his accomplices, then the man who called the lawmakers armed robbers and the lawmakers themselves are all armed robbers, and it's typically a kettle calling a pot black. Only time will judge. 

 But these are mere public shows. Soon, the godfathers of the different factional cabals will sway in to calm warring nerves, the dusts will settle and the whole noise will filter away into space unknown. Then the thieves will carry on with their lives and laughs, while Nigerians never cease to cry. But one day, God will judge every man who was a pollution to Nigeria rather than a solution.