A man  sets out with cattle and roams from Timbuktu to Calabar, on foot. And that is his life in 2019? He has no shelter. He has no education. He has no healthcare. He lives a wretched and perilous vagrant life. And we say he is entitled to live so dangerously in the name of freedom?

A man  sets out with cattle and roams from Timbuktu to Calabar, on foot. And that is his life in 2019? He has no shelter. He has no education. He has no healthcare. He lives a wretched and perilous vagrant life. And we say he is entitled to live so dangerously in the name of freedom?

Elisha Abbo is a symptom of a systemic illness ravaging  the country. There are tens of thousands of Elisha Abbo’s scattered like rashes all over the country. They are intoxicated by their power and money. They  maul whoever crosses their path. They  torture him some more if he proves recalcitrant. The country is  morally bedridden.

The north must wake up now. It must not murder sleep.The north saw nothing coming.  Population was deemed  strength. But it should have watched when others slowed down in breeding. It bred too many children and didn’t do much to care for them. They  roamed the streets. Yet, it bred more.  They forsook schools. And took to begging . Yet, it bred more. Those children, many of them, have gone feral. Now,the north cannot sleep. The north slept for too long.

The future of the Niger Delta looks bleak. It is not hopeless because crude oil will soon become worthless. Crude oil lives on borrowed times. And those who have hung their faith on it will pay for not reading the times.

There have been two public national ceremonies in two weeks. The seats reserved for former heads of state were empty. General Gowon sat alone on May 29. On June 12, leaders came from other countries. But our former leaders stayed away from our celebration of democracy. In Banana republics, former leaders live in forced exile in foreign lands. But in our great country, they are free men.  What then could be their anger? And what could be this message?

The Akachi tower may have been a useless monument. But it was  a government’s white elephant. It was built with public funds.  It could have been  a poor imagination of what could attract tourists and excite residents.  But those who did not like it should  have simply built a better one. After all , Imo still has a lot of  unkempt virgin lands.

Lamido Sanusi came to national lime light in 2009. He had been a banker.  President Yaradua  appointed  him Central Bank Governor. He met a banking industry seized by  sleaze and drowning in systemic arbitrariness.  He  found dubious book keeping everywhere. He took implicated   bank executives by the scruff of the neck  and dragged them and their filth out of their banks into the streets and into the arms of the law.

The police launched Operation Puff Adder to retake Abuja-Kaduna road from the underworld. But that Adder has failed to puff any venom.

The Bible says, in all our getting,  we should get understanding. I don’t know if our pastors can help their poor congregations understand this growing appetite for private jets. It’s possible that some pastors actually need  jets. And that their work for God would suffer if they traveled like the rest of us. I am not asking pastors to travel by donkey.  But before pastors buy jets , they should understand that private jets are symbols of opulence. The Bible warns us to avoid wastefulness.