Nigeria: A Requiem For The Lifeless One
By Femi Fani-Kayode ”A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping. Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted because they are no more”- Jeremiah 31:15. O lifeless one, you have lost all sense of decency and you are drunk with power. As the children are murdered in cold blood and cut short in the streets of Abuja by your soldiers you watch silently from a distance: smug, smiling, detached, indifferent and secretly egging the killers on. Simply put, the butchery and bloodfest excites you and stirs your passion. You love the brutality and finality of murder: it makes you feel like a powerful man and it makes your Adrenalin flow. As the mothers of the slain weep and as their fathers cry to God for justice your impish Vice smiles the smile of the wicked and boastfully proclaims how the two of you are preparing to dance "shaku shaku" for the 2019 election. Your sheer depravity and insensitivity is certified and confirmed. You have proved me right: in ...