Unpopular side with Thomas Oti
Email: thomasoti@qed.ng
Hello? Felix.
Yes. Hello. Who is this?
Paschal. How now my bro. How you dey?
Hey my guy. I dey o. What’s gwan? Wetin dey happen?
Ol’ boy, I tire o. This fuel business isn’t funny mehn. Is this the change we vociferously defended and voted for like say we get stake?
Chill bro. It’s surely not that bad. You know what I’ve always said. Change requires sacrifices. No change has ever been wrought in history without some sort of small pain.
Sacrifice like how? Until we stand shedding our blood at the altar of these our stealing leaders? Is this change or is this kobo kobo? I beg o!
Where did we come from to get here…?
Wait, wait, wait! Don’t you start that nonsensical argument of it’s the past administrations’ fault again! Do you apologists have nothing else to say in all these other than to shift blame like shape shifters? Are we going to spend four years listening to the same broken record? What arrant cluelessness!
Na wa for you o. Relax na. Let me get in a word too na. Abi you called me to rant and not to listen ni?
Is it not my credit I am using to call you? Have I asked for your opinion? Was it not your president and his clueless band of goons that suddenly awoke and decided that our suffering isn’t enough and so he must increase fuel price on top of the ones doing us???
Guy. Chill na. Let me get a word in. Haba. Was Rome built in a day or a year? How can you expect a quick fix of this nation’s problems that has been rotting for the last 100+ years? Yes, the problem precedes the clueless PDP goons we had in the recent past. It precedes our nation as a nation. It goes as far back as the colonial era. We were set up to fail in the first instance! And we have consistently danced to the tunes of our puppeteers by failing and constantly failing and dancing naked in the market square. We were made to fail. In failing, we continue to enrich these slave masters. We may appear free but in stealing money from our people and taking to the colonial masters to build their economies, how is that different from the time we used to go on foraging runs in our own villages and catching our kinsmen like bush rats and then selling them off to the slave masters so they can go and create wealth for them? Nothing has changed. We are as poor as those kings were when the oyinbo man came and used mirror and ogogoro to deceive them into handing over their people. We have suffered and we are still suffering in their hands.
And all these historical incursion just to justify the fact that your change mantra is shitty like Steve Jobs is fond of saying? Na wa o.
No bro. It is more than that. We as a people as usual are the kings of impatience. We sat through so many terrible years of the locust and now that small rain is falling, we want a tsunami. That isn’t the way. Change is inevitable. If it doesn’t come structured, it will come violent. We have had the largesse years at our collective expense. Well, we must not let the looters go scot free so it doesn’t look like we are all thieves. Even if deep down most if not all of us might have been tempted to do same if in their shoes. But we mustn’t close our eyes and give tacit approval to the rape of our commonwealth. So we fight back to get what belongs to us. The measures being taken now are necessary to safeguard our future. Don’t ask me how. I’m not an economist o. Just a layman. One who is thrilled that the impunity of the few in the past is no longer the norm. Things are changing. Things will change. Quinine isn’t sweet but it used to cure malaria. I don’t know whether Coartem and co still have quinine though but when we were growing up, chloroquinine like the only drug to deal with our malaria. We had to take piriton to cushion the chloroquinine so maybe PMB will offer us palliatives to cushion the effect of the current harsh times. Or maybe we should all begin to harass our employers to increase our salaries. Or start charging clients and customers more to cover costs. It is hard times. It won’t last.
In short we should swallow our chloroquinine and prepare for the itch if government doesn’t offer us piriton? What balderdash!
What is the choice? Stay the way we’ve always been? Billions of dollars fleeced from our nation like you would squeeze water out of your laundry before you spread to dry in the sun. They squeezed the nuts out of our balls and hung the nation out to dry. What to do? Keep quiet? Do the same thing we’ve always done and expect different results? Mbana! Brace yourself bro, the ride ahead is bumpy.
So you are suggesting we all keep mute and agree to this wickedness? NO! We must not agree to this nonsense. Isn’t it this same government that said a few short weeks ago that we were overpaying for fuel already and they reduced prices by 50kobo? How did we go from overpaying a few weeks ago to getting charged N58.50k fiam, just like that???!!! Is this even real? And you think this is justifiable? What nonsense! If these guys can’t govern they should go back and beg Jonathan to come show them how it is done! This is arrant nonsense! What manner of people are we that these people think they can take us for rides? We must say no! This must stop!
Hmmm…you are another one of those people who won’t get it no matter what. We need change. The path we were on when the former regime used all the tricks in the book to steal the nation blind. And even succeeded in inventing new ways to redefine corruption and stealing! Our commonwealth and our common heritage will suffer. Our children will suffer if we don’t agree to this difficult change now. We must do things differently. We can’t stay same and expect different! What manner…
I beg shut up there and bounce off my phone! Educated illiterate! Mtcheeww!
Ha! See as this Paschal boy just dropped the phone on me!
