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February 12, 2015
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My grandmother of blessed memory, Mama
Isanlu, was not like Unoka! She was not always
owing everybody in Isanlu and looking for
corner-corner ways to pay only her big debts
first.
I tell her story here. Listen to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofrxl7zDh_
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She was not like Okonkwo either. Yam, the
exacting king of crops, was not something
whose cultivation she surrendered to the
exclusive patriarchal sphere of the men of her
generation in Isanlu.
Mama Isanlu had two big yam farms back in
the day. Francis Okonkwo, Igbo son born of an
Isanlu mother and raised in Isanlu like my
sibling, if you are reading this, do you
remember Mama Isanlu marching us so early
in the morning to her yam farms at Omfun or
Oko l'okanla during our formative years in the
village?
Do you remember the long trek back home in
the evening - one or two yams in the baskets
that we each carried on our heads?
Do you remember Mama Isanlu's goats and
their relentless appetite for Mama Isanlu's yam
barns?
Ah! Those goats! They were stubborn. No
matter how much we fed them with yam
peelings, leaves, and other stuff Mama Isanlu
prepared for them, they always wanted the
real deal. They always wanted the haute cuisine
and the fine dining that was direct access to
Mama Isanlu's raw yarms in the barns.
No manner of ruse was beyond those goats.
Francis, It was your duty and mine to keep
them at bay. We had to constantly separate the
goats from the yams.
But we were barely ten years old. Between
village football with other kids, hunting emo,
okete, and other rodents, and so many other
distractions, the goats always ended up gaining
illegal access to the barns behind our backs.
Mama Isanlu would contemplate the wreckage.
Mama Isanlu would deal with you and I first.
Generous strokes of the cane.
Mama Isanlu would wait patiently for the goats
to retire to their shed for the night. Then she
would drag the offending goat to the yam
shed, show her the damage, and flog the
bejesus out of the poor animal - as if a goat
could ever learn to desist from stealing yams.
Mama Isanlu did not just insist on separating
the goats from the yams.
She always punished us for letting the stealing
happen in the first place.
And she always punished the goats for doing
the stealing. Always.
And one thing Mama Isanlu never did after
punishing a goat for stealing her yams was to
invite the offending goat to be the custodian of
an even bigger and juicier barn of yams. And
she never pardoned any condemned goat guilty
of theft.
What then is this disturbing news I hear with
one ear that a strange creature has been
talking about yams and goats lately?
Should this creature really be talking about
yams and goats?
I remember:
A goat steals plenty of aviation yams.
The process of crime and punishment is still
being determined by his own crime and
punishment machinery.
Suddenly he yanks the goat accused of stealing
aviation yams from the crime and punishment
scene and places the said offending goat closer
to his heart in charge of bigger and juicier
campaign yams.
And he now goes to lecture people about
separating goats from yams? This man - whose
moral universe can only think of finding juicier
yams for offending goats or pardoning
condemned looting goats?
This man - whose instinct is to always
condemn the yam for roaming too close to the
goat's mouth?
This man - whose psychology is to accuse
anybody who warns him that goats steal yams
of attempting to bring down his barn by
smearing the good name of his goats?
Maybe he should leave goats and yams alone?
Maybe he should just kuku shut up entirely
about this stealing business because his record
in that department is so awful that every time
he opens his mouth, he worsens the situation?
Maybe...
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/pius-adesanmi/president-jonathan-s-aviation-goat-president-jonathan-s-campaign-yams.html

Shey na true?

FFK is a goat employed by a bigger goat(GEJ) who steal our yam(national wealth) with impunity.




May God destroy ole, thieves, barawo, Oji, etc in govt .


Gej, u are not corrupt, you are a thief!