CHALLENGES OF LIFE - "I Will Finish My Talk"

Mabel came back to the hall, she thanked everyone seated then directed her attention to Mr. Abdul-Karin and said “I thank you so much my leader for granting my request. The reason I made this request that I should be released for a while is to make a difference, to leave a mark, to make history, so that In the future, someone will rise and say, Mabel said it before, that such a thing will happen” “Please my father and leaders, do you permit me to make this remark?”

“My daughter we are very sorry for the embarrassment we caused you” said Papa Aderemi Politely, we didn’t mean to hurt you and we didn’t brought you out on your request because we wont send you back there to the dark room again. We didn’t bring you out just to make this remark you requested, rather! We ask you to come out because you don’t belong there. Nevertheless, if you have anything to tell us, we are listening”.

“ I thank you so much big daddy. May you live long and see how great every one of us will be. Please every body listen carefully to me: I have heard so much! I have seen so many atrocities being committed; I have wondered why we become so wicked to ourselves. I have learned my lesson. Bad things may start somewhere but don’t always end where it started. But I want you all to remember this day that those we relied on have failed us. Our elders who are supposed to be Mild tempers and gentle have become wicked and wild. The people we tell our secretes have turn around to expose us in the market place. Those we lie down together with in the same room as brothers and relations have gotten up in the mid-night and open our door for robbers and kidnappers to come in. Oh! What a life? A life of betrayal and deceit, a life where when someone known’s he’s wrong, instead of feeling sorry, he exonerate himself by force.

My elders, fathers, brothers, husbands and our leaders, do you know that we the Edunero’s, Yorinle’s, and Ibokele’s have been made miserable by our own blood brothers? Do you know that we have been disenfranchised for long? By our clansmen, our relatives. Even in our miserable state, our brothers do not allow us to reach our natural lifespan. They cut our lives short either through terrorism or by the cover of herdsmen. This is a challenge for us the Ibokele’s, Edunero’s and Yorinle’s. But whom do we challenge? Is it our brothers the Habekona’s, the Noribalu, or the Wabudu brothers that has been taunting us since the founding of this great empire? We are well aware that our other brothers have divided this nation and named the three clans that belong to them; Wabudu, Noribalu and Habekona the ARERE people. While the Ibokele, Yorinle and Edunero are tagged as, the UTARI people. We agree! 

You understand quiet well my respected leader Mr. Abdul-Karin that our well knowledgeable father from the Edunero clan was the person that single handedly commence the process of calling for freedom from our foreign oppressors to the World Authority to intervene in our case of starting the fight for freedom from them. But because of the genuineness, love of goodness and hospitality of our great grand fathers, now our deities, towards all, they pretended not to be aware while one of the sons of Arere people cunningly went behind our father and collected the power of attorney of this empire, from the white men.

Challenges of Life: THE BATTLE PROPER

          As a follow up to the ongoing in the land of Akogah, Mr. Abdul-Karin the present leader has summoned all the elders and office holders in Akogah to an emergency meeting which was well attended.

In the meeting, he gave an assurance to all present that his tenure as the leader and chief security officer of the empire, will not tolerate any kind of bridge of security within and around Akogah territory. because he is prepared to make life un comfortable to anyone that posed a threat to the nation, and make it sweet for every good citizen of this empire, he said.

          But I want to assure you today that I desire to make this promise to my people which I would like all elders present in this meeting to carry along with them to the various districts and clans they represent and distribute the information’s to all his or her clansmen”. He continued; the only enemies I have in this empire are those that argue with my authority, those that contend with my power and those that feels I’m cheating on them. I will not take it lightly with these ones. Abdul-karin threatens

  

          I am given a direct orders today to the defense department to get rid of anyone that fits in to the description I gave earlier. Abdul-karin continued… “I permit them to insert every kinds of pain within the reach of the vigilante on these intruders. They should even put them into prison without initiating legal suite against them. Let them understand that no one challenges my authority and still remain free”.

Mabel got up to speak. She said, “My Fathers, Brothers, and Clansmen! I thank you all for giving me the opportunity to be among you in this crucial meeting today. Our dear Leader, all what you have said is true. Although I am in the youth wing in this administration, nevertheless, I have my youth to also report the outcome of this great conference to. Therefore I want to make my voice heard, I want to make my thought known, and I want to make one thing very clear.”

          “Our leader, Mr. Abdul-karin we voted you into power to lead us and not to rule us”, we………

STOP! chanted Abdul-karin ………… take her away from this gathering, Abu-Bakr and if possible throw her into the dark room until she learn that people don’t talk to me that way. And I believe others will learn from that lesson as they speak.

  

Mabel was taken away by the security …………………….

That is a nice step in the right direction my leader, such action shows how determined and prepared you are to take us to the promise land. Said Adamu.

Mr. Uwaila got up and ask a very simple question; “What is the bad word our daughter Mabel just said? What authority has she actually disobeyed? What crime have she committed to warrants such inhuman treatment? Why should she be treated like a slave? Have you forgotten all she has done to make your coming into power become a reality? I want to call on our Father Aderemi who puts all required machineries together to set up this party, to wake us and rise to these challenges that will soon tear this party and the entire empire to pieces and if possible break up the pillars that holds the four corners of this great kingdom empire.” Mr. Abdul-Karin our dear leader, you should give an order instructing Abu-Bakr to return Mabel, our Daughters back to this meeting hall because she has not done anything contrary to the rule of law in this land.

          Chukwuma the youth secretary got up and greeted all in attendance. I greet you all my fathers, mothers, our brothers, our wives and our leader, the great Abdul-Karin. The hard writing on the wall is very clear! If you put a pot on the stove or gas and you do not light it up, whatever is in the pot will not boil. Therefore, there’s fire boiling up what is happening in this empire presently. We should strive to identify and quench it now, before it escalates. I said so because what my sister Mabel just said would have been the best thought to be reasoned. And reasoning on it and arriving at a compromise may have completely solved the whole problem foaming up and causing division among us. Our leader Abdul-Karin we do not vote you in to lead us. I want all our elders and the mind bowing persons present here to practically reason on this statement. Does it sting? It is affront? Is it an irritating statement? Please great men and women with booming mind, do you not think it is our tribe, out culture, on custom, our religion or our believes that may be responsible for this? 

          Oh! We are outcast already, we have been given the dress of a slave to put on ………. We have already been looked at as enemy. I thought by now I would have been tied to a stake and shot to death or hung on a tree to rot away. Where is Mabel? Did she say up to what I have just spoken? Oh! Poverty breeds evil. Has it been design that if you come from Edunero Clan, Ibokele Clan or Yorinle Clan that you are a Taboo.

Our Father Aderemi you are here present. Humbly representing yourself and observing what is going on in this well honoured and respected empire.

             Oh! Should it be your time? Oh! Should this be the reward anyone can get for a work well done? Have we the indigenes of this land not done well for you by allowing your party take power at this time? Is it really true as speculated in many quarters that you are still a crèche in this system? One of the vigilante hurried in and inform the leader of Akogah Mr. Abdul-Karin that Mabel wish to make just one point before she could be finally thrown into he cage. “I will not grant that request because the dark room is where she belongs to for making such un-palatable statement to and elder statesman like me. In fact I have dissolved the youth wing” said Mr. Abdul-Karin. 

Our leader! You have all the powers said Papa Adeyemi to Abdul-Karin but you don’t have all the authority to conclude without fist consulting the Senior Elders Council. Papa Aderemi excused the leader, Abdul-Karin. When they came back, Mr. Abdul-Karin instructed the security to lead Mabel back o the hall on her request.

Ahead to a New Nigeria PART 1

The problem in the government sector of the Nigerian system is not primarily the ages that run for the various seats. Although the age plays a major role in streamlining things, the basic and most essential requirement to make the Nigeria governmental system works is The Rule of Law.

By this I mean that all activities in the Nigeria system should be regulated by the constitution of the land. No one person or authority should be allowed to live above the law of the land. Our speech, actions and attitude towards matters should be synchronized with the law (The Constitution).

Therefore, my humble submission to the honourable house of senate is that they should also work on modalities to make everyone in the country bow before the law. Right from the position of the president, all senators, representative, the governors, judges, local govt. council boss to those in the grassroot.

I’m so confident that if we works towards this direction, you may not remember me when things start changing for the better for you. The president should mind his speeches, the governors should not intimidate workers, judges should not take bribe, don’t decamp from the party that took you to the height of a senator, don’t use tout to force yourself into the seat of power, make sure everything works within the rules that empowers you into that honourable seat (position)

These suggestions are very timely because we have older men and women in the seat of power and you still see public fighting mostly in the inner chambers of both the lower and the higher houses of assembly and even being duplicated in the state houses of assemblies where you see 5 people impeaching a speaker against 17 that are still with the speaker.

Come to thing of it; is there no constitutional way to legally impeach a speaker, governor or even the president without causing hullabaloo? Or is the constitution dead to impeachment procedure in Nigeria? Why should a sane person climb through the ladder of one particular party to arrive at the position of either the governor, a senate member or a member of the house of representative and decamp to another party less-one-year in that seat and still be allowed to occupy that seat? If Nigeria laws are not strong enough to rectify such staid issues anymore, a new law should be drafted, otherwise if we have a member of Rep. and senate of forty years in the house with these inert laws, Nigeria would be heading to its doom.

So if we really wish that this New Nigeria we are designing succeeds and be sustained the Nigeria constitution should be worked on, and the proper regulation to prevent perplexity in the house must first be put in place before this laws regulating the age of whom become our leaders is passed.

By our source writter

Osakue A.O. Peter