RANDOM MUSINGS: VERSION2

                                    

IT’S THE SEASON AGAIN

 When;
Like darkness-relishing vermins,
Nigerian Politrickcians huddle
In the pale lights of night
Birthing at crack of dawn
Kaleidoscopic amorphous coalitions vacuous in ideology but rich in ambition.
Agreements fizzling with the light of day!

AS THE SUN RISES,
Evil Avants scurry to watering hole “workplaces”
To langorously and avariciously serve themselves CIVIL-ly
From lavish recurrent expenditure votes
Leaving hapless citizens to grapple
With the predictable negative fallouts
Of completeable uncompleted capital projects
except glitzy, brand new government houses.

AMIDST THIS UNBRIDLED GREED
 By a humongous bureaucracy,
The Chief of Defense Staff looks up in despair, ruing his lot.
Rendered homeless and a Non-Nigerian by the Boko Haram he swore to crush within a few weeks of assumption of office.
While the citizens wonder: “which government is ON TOP OF THE SITUATION”?
Up there in Chibok, distraught parents ponder:
Brooding what happened to the much harped-upon ceasefire agreement?
Where are the Chibok girls?
Why has the much publicized announcement of their release within 72 hours [made by the now homeless and nation-less CDS,] turned into an indefinite wait for Godot?
AND THE JUDICIARY? 
Busy as usual.
With the ease of a trapeze artist,
Jauntily churning out conflicting judgments
By courts of equal jurisdiction on identical cases.
Sowing confusion all over the judicial terrain,
While scything through politrickcians and other sundry demimondes of our society who have tons of ill-gotten wealth, and who litter our landscape, raping our common good;
Even as it proclaims itself
The last hope of the common man and demoncrazy!!
WITH THE EFCC, ICPC AND PCB IN SELF- INDUCED COMA,
The police are back in the centre of the fray.
Doing anything and everything- legislating, adjudicating and extra-judicial executions- EXCEPT policing, they carefully avoid Boko Haram infested areas.


AT THE “IRRATIONAL ASSEMBLY”,
Representathieves are compelled to scale gates and obstacles mounted by the same Boko Haram-dreading police FORCE [paid with funds appropriated by these bi-polar representathieves,] in order to gain hot access to the green chambers while stealators contemplate with indescribable dread from their red chambers the situation where those constitutionally charged with the responsibility of enforcing laws made by them are now firing incendiary objects at them under the disguise that the law makers are now hoodlums! Law breakers of which laws?
 ONE WONDERS:
Could Sanni Abacha have surreptitously crept back into power, unnoticed?
Strong men fear shadows.
A key official function is called off because the Government of the area of Tompolo says GEJ must not come around there.
The people of Chibok still wait vainly for government to show that IT cares.
Talking of the maximum ruler who made a pariah of all of us,
What era does GEJ’s romance with the religious elite,
The so-called 17millions of latter day “who the cap fits” organizers and campaigners,
The Gwarzo-style movement of huge sums of cash for security operations, and
The NADECO-risation of all traducing voices,
REMIND US OF?
THAT IN RIVERS AND BAD GOVERNMENTS, THE FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, THE LIGHTEST THINGS SWIM AT THE TOP.

MEANWHILE,
We wait with bated breadth the inevitable transformation whereby,
Like Militants turned billionaire security contractors,
Insurgents will transmute to political and economic gurus.
Who knows, the insurgents might even end up building private universities.
Where Boko will no longer be Haram, but will now be Halal.
In Niger Republic?
Chad?
Cameroun?
Who knows!!

OVER THERE, AT THE VILLA,
Government, obviously permanently afflicted by
A dangerous bout of acedia;
More virulent than AIDS, Lassa fever and Ebola Fever combined,
Continues to fumble and bumble at every turn
Metamorphosing governance into an absurd theatre dramatized by clueless, jumbling yobbos.
THUS,
In all matters even as mundane as political campaigns,
The country magically transforms into
An inane aberration of the continent’s largest economy being also
One of the world’s most poverty-stricken.
BUT,
Deploying a ubiquitous agenda of dubious intent and incredibly suffocating effects which are daily imbued with positive values via wicked lies and inhumanely sadistic statistics conjured by Technocrats wearing rose-coloured glasses; as far as these 21st Century Necromancers in Nigeria are concerned,
Jobs are everywhere though unemployment is rife and daily, grows geometrically
Houses have been built in quantum of millions but the homeless thickly populate the land even though they are not street dwellers by choice
Roads are everywhere; Railways are running smoothly; Electricity is on 24/7;
Telephones are now for the poor; Almajiris at present attend standard schools; and, Water currently flows freely in our taps, etc, etc!
We are now in an era of DEVELOPMENT ALCHEMY whereby development economists assert that every budgetary allocation and appropriation equals an exponential algorithm of development. Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, where are you????
Figures do not tell lies. Structures are not necessary proofs. Both can be computer- generated. Well paid voice-over artistes breathe life into them.
As cause and effect merge into one seamless continuum, let us muse some more while we wait, praying that we shall not wail later.
Jesus IS Lord; Allaahu Akbar.

‘Tony OSAKWE.
 10.15am, 25th November, 2014










                                              MORE POINTS TO PONDER
In a few months’ time, the world will see how quickly the duel between the PDP and the Nigerian people can move from farce through hope, to tragedy. The current situation in all aspects of the daily existential challenges confronting the common man presents a formidable quandary which  nothing, in the experience of the masses, suggests that the present crop of leaders are intellectually equipped to appreciate and understand or, for what it is worth, are ideologically committed enough to confront sensibly, efficiently and effectively. Without mincing words, living in this country is like living-out a Greek tragedy where the worst becomes inevitable. Sadly and, contrary to logical expectations, the dross that bestride our political life  sees all problems confronting the common man and requiring robust and matured tackling as God-given opportunities for looting while extremely well-paid jingoists go to town and hit the streets as well as airwaves, with tales of TRANSFORMATION.
For instance, the Boko Haram debacle leads one to a cast iron conviction that this government lacks both the gumption to analyse, synthesise and comprehend the issues at stake as well as the mettle to design appropriate coping strategies to tackle them. This alarming absence of character and temperament, coupled with sagacity and tenacity of purpose has ensured that government has neither been able to confront the situation militarily in a convincing manner nor has it been able to design and activate a credible political solution. In fact, things are so bad that a matter as simple as information management in respect of the crisis, is in such a chaotic situation that virtually any and everybody at all levels of governance seeks to score cheap political points at the expense of the sensitivity and sensibility of those directly afflicted and others vicariously concerned, by making high-falluting statements and inexplicably losing their voices afterwards. In this state of anomie largely reminiscent of the last scene in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, ordinary citizens have learnt to adopt the classic ‘’ attitude!
It is worth noting in this regard that even though there are some lessons to be learnt from Ambrose Bierce’s assertion that ‘ ’, former President Gerald Ford’s position that......‘’ is a more useful position under the present set of circumstances in Nigeria. The condition of amorality whereby all highly persons in virtually every important structure of governance have no credibility and are generally perceived as spin stars is very bad for government. Sadly, this is where we are today in Nigeria. Even more disheartening is that none of our leaders feels bound by their words. Unfortunately, the topmost leaders, in a totally confused state of mind, behave like perplexed movie producers who dissipate a lot of energy by constantly shuffling actors, backroom staff and directors around instead of taking a critical and incisive look at the script itself. Just like any footballer [even a rookie,] will tell whoever cares to listen, you do not win matches by changing jerseys and shorts; it makes more sense to re-examine tactics and strategies.
Be this as it may, the President has a clear obligation to protect the people by lowering the flames. The ceasefire option is the line of least resistance in this respect. In any event, there is a clear and present need to radically review, if not totally enfeeble the infrastructure of violence on both sides of the aggression divide while substituting clear-eyed action for Goebbels-type propaganda. However, due diligence needs to be government’s watch word in this regard to avoid the façade of diplomacy which conceals the fundamental fact that Boko Haram’s ultimate intention is to destroy Nigeria as a nation.

‘Tony OSAKWE
5.04 am, 10th November, 2014 RANDOM MUSINGS: VERSION 2