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Nigeria Our Motherland Or Our Murderland By Kunle Adebajo by Akin1212(m): 11:47pm On Sep 15, 2017 |
Father came from this land, and so did mom They say it is my fatherland… Yet! I want to be taken farther from this land Where children are rendered fatherless, And the tree of fatherhood is rendered barren Like an Oaktree at autumn Please take me further from this motherland Where mothers are murdered and slaughtered for their daughters to watch And, day by day, neighbours labour to bore holes for burial Today, Borno burns as a raging inferno Jos is jostling her way through the crowd of brutality Ikorodu crawls on a meadow under the shadows of badoo And the Niger Delta saboteurs of peace are being dealt with by a Delta Force Today, Ministers of Attack have outnumbered those in the Ministry of Defence And the beasts of Sambisa after being technically defeated over and over, are still technically killing our citizens Why? We claim to have the Prince of Peace and the religion of peace, yet we have no peace We claim to have the Good Book and the Holy Book, yet there is no goodness in our holiness Yes, we love our neighbours as ourselves – but only if they share the same names as ourselves We care about one another only to the point where our tribal marks agree … But you see, only if there is security can we finally see the cure to our many adversities Only if there is harmony can our businessmen be calm enough to earn money And only if we stick together can we not be stuck separately So let us learn – from the miseries that have gone, and the miseries that still have us by the gun Learn we must from Burma, learn we must from Somalia, And if we learn from nowhere else, let us learn from Rwanda Where two decades ago, a million died in an unfortunate genocide Let us with our 180 million voices Court the concordant chords of accord Let us sing a sonorous serenade of serenity And beat the drums of peace; not of war For in war, never is it about who is right But who is left… And no matter how many tribes we have in this compound called Nigeria 200? 300? Please add another hundred … there will always be room for peace I crave the day everybody will truly belong to everybody I crave the day Emeka will be a maker of food for Gambo And Aremu will gladly remunerate Ifeanyi for personal favours The day Garuba will proudly wear the same garb as Gabari When Danladi, Amadi and Ajadi will walk Hand-in-hand down the boulevard of goodwill … Countrymen, let that day be today Because yesterday was already too late It is either we say goodbye to this murderland Or our motherland says goodbye to us Facebook Profile https://www.facebook.com/adebajo.adekunle? |
Re: Nigeria Our Motherland Or Our Murderland By Kunle Adebajo by Tamass: 11:50pm On Sep 15, 2017 |
Nigeria is everyone's land..I say no to secession! Let's all unite together and fight corruption |
Re: Nigeria Our Motherland Or Our Murderland By Kunle Adebajo by DozieInc(m): 12:20am On Sep 16, 2017 |
Lovely write up . @Tamass I say yes to Restructuring. |
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