Violence by Iyayi is one book I read and I love. It portraits what violence really is and that is exactly what is in manifestation in our nation today. Violence everywhere.
Violence is not when the bomb sound, 'gbum' in an area, lives lost, blood flows, property gone, people running here and there, many groaning in pain.
Violence is not when the people move in peace, expressing their pain and the men in khaki come at them and do the shooting, then they repel or stand firm, three drops, four drops, five drops.
Violence is not the noise causing events and pain causing occasions.
Violence is doing things that push men to the wall, when they cannot move anymore, they turn back to act.
Violence is taking most, using the leftover left, to meet the need of many, which is never enough to meet their insatiable needs. Then they suffer, lack amidst plenty!
Violence is lacking responsibility to the all forms of needs of the people, they keep their cool on the 'life' founded on the pain of others. If it is not yours, you take what is for others, causing them pains, is pains.
Violence is keeping quiet when you should speak against the evil done by your people
Violence is when one destroy other because of what he believes or who he is.
Violence is hunger; an hungry man is an angry man.
Violence is unemployment, youths wasting their youthful strength on nothing, when inducted to evil, some go in and turn things upsidedown. Their idle hand become a workshop for just any.
Violence is going home and not knowing what to give your wife and children.
Violence is a child withdrawn from school for fund or not attempting at all yet it is their boiling desire.
Violence is depriving labourers their wages after labour, it is not paying pension nor paying gratuity.
Violence is a land polluted, the people cannot farm their land, cannot drink of their water and nothing seems done about it. Violence is lack of security, people cannot dwell at peace, losing their loved ones and their labours, look at people suffering because of lack of good covering, they get frustrated. Frustration is a joint mother of violence. Violence is depriving others what they should have because they are a people. Which people is above others?  Violence is what you people are doing. Eeeh! Violence, violence, v-i-o-l-e-n-c-e, is what you are doing. Yes, it is. Embezzling, eating with two hands and keeping full, overflowing, while others dig their hand into empty plates, that is if they have a plate. Violence is when a people think they are superior to others and doing all to rule forever. Violence is telling the people you will do what you cannot do, raising their hope and delivering nothing. Violence is what you do when you impose unworthy men on us to serve your interest. Violence is sending your kids off only to manipulate others to give their children for destructive use, they die sometimes and the souls of the givers are bitter. Violence is this half baked education that cannot sponsor the owner. Violence is our soldiers falling, facing this terror that can be avoided, they die in quantity. Their wives, children, families and we, are grieved at it. Violence is not the noise, it is what cause it. Violence had long been born before it shows it full face in destruction and death. Violence had being born since the time you thought of taking that 'cake' part and you took it. It affected, this, this and that, so something get up in them, either anger or frustration which lead to doing the unwanted

Violence in itself is the silent greedy act of men that deprive many and motivate them to act destructive.

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