When we were in primary school many decades ago, we used to line up to welcome government visitors. We sang songs of welcome for them and wave bye bye to them as they departed. Then there were fewer aircraft. They rode in cars.
Many years after, and in the year of Our Lord 2025, grown men who are Governors of their States and leaders of lawmaking bodies still line up like we did many decades ago, to wave at a departing aeroplane carrying President Bola Tinubu on “a 10-day working visit to the UK and France.”
These people flew many kilometres from their states just to shake hands with the traveling president, wave bye bye as he departs, frolic a bit in Abuja and fly back to their respective states to be welcomed by their own retinue of aides who will wave too as their chartered private jets land, that is for those returning. Some govern from Abuja.
All these are at the expense of tax payers money, their respective governments’ money, the people’s money.
Meanwhile, the roads in their states are full of craters and potholes. Criminals are running riot. Social miscreants are in control. The people are bleeding. A few are enjoying and waving too.
Now, if I say that I am incurably pessimistic that the blacman is incapable of sustaining civilization, some will come here and start pontificating how Egypt was the cradle of civilization, as if Egypt is a black nation.
What we did many decades ago as children is many decades after being replicated by adults – our leaders who were then adjudged to be leaders of tomorrow.
That tomorrow came and those children became leaders as adults and then children again.
Shame!
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