I'm not sure what the percentage of Nigerian law makers are Christian but the Christian God must be a very worried being wherever he/she/it (trying really hard to be gender sensitive here) is right about now.
We've read the bible.
We've heard the jokes.
We all assume to know that interrogation at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter is a major process in getting into heaven.
We've still not made up our minds though, on if there's a list where the names of the holy few like yours holily would be read out from or if the video of all our past transgressions would be played via high speed heavenly Internet on a wide screen iPad!
I'm just hoping Gen. Sani Abalcha got to the gates with those dark goggles because the end of his own video would be very strange to say the least.
Very very somehow if I must say.
Anyway, if we're to believe the tales, nobody gets past those gates without a good grilling about their deeds in this world.
So, events in Abuja, Nigeria, in the last 24hrs must have caused a right old storm in the comfy confines of heaven!
Watching pot-bellied old men in starched 'Agbadas' and crisp suits scale the gates of the National Assembly Complex like, as the kids would say, 'Itz nothing', must have set off alarm bells.
If heaven is anything like Nigeria, by now, a committee to look into both the 'remote and close' possibilities of these sprightly Nigerian Poli-thievians scaling the Pearly Gates would have been set up!
On a more serious note (which I'm assuming is -La. -Re and -Mi seem so much more lively, don't you think?), the events at the National Assembly Complex yesterday should be enough to make anyone with even the most vestigial inclination of civility cringe in horror!
In Covenant University English, 'It was like, so totally shocking!'.
The sight of riot-ready police men, spraying canisters of tear gas on the hallowed grounds of Nigerian Legislature left not only a lot to be desired but was a dark mark on democracy as a process and a whole!
It tells us the extent certain folks presently resident at the Rock in Abuja are willing to go to sit tight in office beyond 2015.
The action gives us an insight into their minds and thought process and the picture, just like a butt naked Kim Kardashian, is far from pretty.
But then, as my god friend Bekibele Brume , the Chancellor of Olomu land and the visiting Ambassador from Canada, Romania and the whole of Eastern Europe to Nigeria would say, 'Na see-finish make squirrel climb hunter for forest, call am tree!'
I seriously doubt that the Police and it's executive backers at the Rock have had the audacity to attack the complex in such a brazen manner, if the house was hitherto composed of men and women of impeccable character.
Seeing these so-called Honourables jump gates like petty criminals only serves to buttress my point.
The Nigerian Police could have added dry pepper and Calabar beans to the tear gas for all I care but we must always strive to protect democracy but to make our cry about individuals, be it GEJ or Tambowal, would be a gross disservice.
Where do we go from here?
I'm thinking Cold Stone, to get a bowl of my favourite 'Strawberry blond' ice cream mix but since we are in a period of austerity according to Madam Co-ordinating Minister, maybe not.
So instead where we go from here is probably where we've gone already. Getting on the internet, radio, television, newspapers and letting people know that you cannot attack symbols of democracy to satisfy primal desires.
Maybe they listen, maybe they don't but lets spare a thought for the engineers frantically working at the Pearly Gates as we speak trying to fortify it from these sprightly Nigerian Poli-thievians!
P.S: The Flipside of Life is on the Twitter machine @doctorrotcod.
We've read the bible.
We've heard the jokes.
We all assume to know that interrogation at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter is a major process in getting into heaven.
We've still not made up our minds though, on if there's a list where the names of the holy few like yours holily would be read out from or if the video of all our past transgressions would be played via high speed heavenly Internet on a wide screen iPad!
I'm just hoping Gen. Sani Abalcha got to the gates with those dark goggles because the end of his own video would be very strange to say the least.
Very very somehow if I must say.
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| I'm just gonna say I'm not always that way, Pete! |
So, events in Abuja, Nigeria, in the last 24hrs must have caused a right old storm in the comfy confines of heaven!
Watching pot-bellied old men in starched 'Agbadas' and crisp suits scale the gates of the National Assembly Complex like, as the kids would say, 'Itz nothing', must have set off alarm bells.
If heaven is anything like Nigeria, by now, a committee to look into both the 'remote and close' possibilities of these sprightly Nigerian Poli-thievians scaling the Pearly Gates would have been set up!
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| Abeg warn those Nigerians. IF WE HEAR!!!!! |
In Covenant University English, 'It was like, so totally shocking!'.
The sight of riot-ready police men, spraying canisters of tear gas on the hallowed grounds of Nigerian Legislature left not only a lot to be desired but was a dark mark on democracy as a process and a whole!
It tells us the extent certain folks presently resident at the Rock in Abuja are willing to go to sit tight in office beyond 2015.
The action gives us an insight into their minds and thought process and the picture, just like a butt naked Kim Kardashian, is far from pretty.
But then, as my god friend Bekibele Brume , the Chancellor of Olomu land and the visiting Ambassador from Canada, Romania and the whole of Eastern Europe to Nigeria would say, 'Na see-finish make squirrel climb hunter for forest, call am tree!'
I seriously doubt that the Police and it's executive backers at the Rock have had the audacity to attack the complex in such a brazen manner, if the house was hitherto composed of men and women of impeccable character.
Seeing these so-called Honourables jump gates like petty criminals only serves to buttress my point.
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| When members of his constituency asked him to take democracy to greater heights, I'm not too sure he totally understood! |
Where do we go from here?
I'm thinking Cold Stone, to get a bowl of my favourite 'Strawberry blond' ice cream mix but since we are in a period of austerity according to Madam Co-ordinating Minister, maybe not.
So instead where we go from here is probably where we've gone already. Getting on the internet, radio, television, newspapers and letting people know that you cannot attack symbols of democracy to satisfy primal desires.
Maybe they listen, maybe they don't but lets spare a thought for the engineers frantically working at the Pearly Gates as we speak trying to fortify it from these sprightly Nigerian Poli-thievians!
P.S: The Flipside of Life is on the Twitter machine @doctorrotcod.
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