I can live in a city without walls, but never a wish for my children. I can survive in a harsh environment devoid of development and infrastructure, but not a wish for my children.
I can live in a society where we pull ourselves down for no reason, but not a wish for my children.
I can live in a society where the only thing that progresses is hatred for one another, but not a wish for my children.
I can live in a society where people are killed and the tax payer’s money is only for pleasure instead of protection, but not a wish for my children.
I can live in a society where gossip and blackmail is the order of the day, but not a wish for my children.
I cannot understand why the moral go-betweens of the society are looking the other way, while the decay goes unattended to. Those saddled with the responsibility to make lives and those of our children better are making things worse, much worse for us and our children. Why would they choose to subject us and our children to this trauma that deepens our helplessness and hopelessness and turn the rainbow of hope in the horizon into the dark clouds of an arrested future.
There is no way one can put it less indelicately: it is a shame.
Igedeland, especially Ukpute and Ochoro on my mind.
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