Friday, November 4, 2011

Suwe time is the best!

There I was,on the queue,eagerly waiting for my turn past d scanning machine.Hoping,willing,wishing,in fact,fervently praying that the thick lumps of Fufu I ate earlier in d day would tip off the machines and I would be whisked away by the NDLEA,only to re-emerge a month later with 25 million naira of the federal government's money!
Why are we men,if but to hope?
Oh!What I would give to be a fly in the NDLEA office this morning?!Perched in a corner,watching the confused faces of their officers and the Boss Man frantically looking for a scape goat to save his own neck.
An Indian saying goes,"Baba Suwe swallow money,Baba Suwe shit no funny".
Dumb Indians!
You and I plus all the untarred roads and overflowing gutters in Lagos know that Suwe had extra passengers in his gut.What we don't know and might never know is the miracle behind his escape.
Common sense tells me he was indeed the victim of an unlawful detention.
My Nigerian sense(which i have come to cherish and respect)tells me so many other things.
So,there I was,successfully past the scanner,looking back ruefully and promising myself to drink a cup of milk and a jar of mist mag to increase the whiteness of my stomach contents next time.
One can never tell when Lady Luck would decide to shine her 32.
As the advert of the National Sports Lottery once famously said "Next time,e fit be you oh!"
P.S:this article bears no resemblance to real characters or events.Any assumed interpretations are not the author's views.