₦airaland Forum

Buccaneers Confraternity
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Who is afraid of the Buccaneers Confraternity?
Interesting times indeed. And quite frankly, amusing times. Amusing? Of course! All of a sudden, every street fight, every campus altercation, one argument or the other, are all linked to the Buccaneers Confraternity.
Certain sections of the media, certain newspapers and yes, certain journalists (you know yourselves) have all become too obsessed with reporting one violence or the other and then claiming that the suspects are members of the Buccaneers Confraternity. It has indeed gotten to a comical stage, and that is why l call it amusing. One day, these folks fond of mentioning our names at every opportunity will report that….
“Nigeria’s slow economic growth linked with the Buccaneers Confraternity”
That day is coming because those obsessed with mentioning Buccaneers Confraternity and who obviously see them as a threat to them or their own whatever (for reasons known only to them) have now run out of things to say about us. They can’t find anything else negative to say. It is mission impossible to convince other people that a group of fine gentlemen who spend their time doing noble humanitarian causes in Nigeria and around the world are evil or bad people. Or that a group of fine gentlemen who instill the virtues of good citizenship and advocate for a peaceful society are bad people. Every time they look around, Buccaneers are engaged in one good endeavor or the other. They are either helping the less privileged, donating money to charity, serving their community, helping their fellow brothers and impacting their community in a good way.
These are the things they see but for some reason, some people somewhere, (and you know yourselves, yes you,) are very uncomfortable with this.
I have bad news for these folks who cannot help themselves but worry and obsess about the Buccaneers Confraternity. You aren’t stopping us. You have never been able to stop us and you never will be able to stop us. The power and force of good overrides the force of evil and negativity. So every time you think you are derailing our works of charity and quite frankly, just our wish to be jolly good fellows and nothing else, you end up helping us and injecting more pace and power and determination into our drive and quest to continue to impact our country and communities positively.
We will prevail and you will fail.
So my advice to you today is to continue your obsession. Instead of going about your daily activities and solving your own problems or doing your job, keep worrying about the Buccaneers Confraternity. You will continue to fail as you have always done. And we will continue to prevail for our intention is noble and sincere.
The sincerity and innocence of those who benefit from our noble and humanitarian deeds and goodwill will always extinguish your attempts at denying them access to the help we give to them.
My fellow fine boys let us keep sailing.

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Buccaneers Confraternity
17 hrs ·
Students: Stop killing yourselves!!!
The blame for all the campus violence must first be placed squarely where it belongs. At the doorstep of those responsible for ensuring a conducive learning environment for students who are seriously engaged in academic pursuit. When the foundation is weak, anything placed on top of it will eventually collapse.
The soccer pitch is overgrown with grass, the Tennis court (if there is one) is not functional because the net which costs little to nothing to fix has been broken for a long time, there is no game room for students to play mind challenging games. Extracurricular activities for students are rare. The various departments don’t engage the students enough with adequate academic activities to keep everyone busy. No field trips to see places or activities that enhance the student’s academic pursuit. No interactive sessions between the students and the staff or authorities of schools. Students attend lectures in crowded, stuffy and hot classrooms, in some cases, most of them stand through their lectures because there are not enough seats in the classroom. Then in some cases when they don’t buy handouts, they will not receive a passing grade, no matter how well they perform in the exam.
This is not to excuse the students who engage in the dastardly acts of murder that we hear about everyday. The rules of personal responsibility applies here. In the midst of all the dysfunction and the failure of our leaders at the school level, most students still come out successful and with excellent grades and go on to become responsible individuals in life.
Our young men in schools must realize that succeeding in life and getting through school in the tough circumstances that they find themselves is largely their own responsibility. You can kill yourselves all you want, the authorities just don’t care.
Let me sound sanctimonious here for just a little bit. Buccaneers have always been called fine boys. We have a reputation for partying and having a good time. We also have a reputation for just being jolly good fellows. This is true. Sometimes we were even called ‘soft”. This is because everyone knows that all we want to do is party, have fun and just enjoy life. We are provoked on a daily basis in most campuses by members of other fraternities who just get angry at the fact that we just want to be jolly good fellows.
All through my years in school, we were never involved in any altercation with any other fraternity. Not because we did not have skirmishes or potential avenues for clashes with other frats, we did. We however handled things differently. We towed the path of disciplined diplomacy. Preferring to resolve potential disputes (that could easily have gotten out of control) by talking with each other. It worked. Nothing was going to stop me from graduating, going to Law School and becoming a Lawyer. Not that girl who the other guy from the other fraternity wants, not over an argument of who pushed or shoved each other and who should apologize first, and not for any of all the other silly and stupid reasons that leads students into gun fights which in turn results in the deaths of promising young lives.
The ultimate ruggedity is to graduate from school with a good grade, get a job and become a responsible member of your community, give back to your community and mentor younger ones. You will not be judged as a success by the number of people you shot or killed, or how many ‘hits” you pulled. All those things belong in the world of thuggery and will lead you nowhere in life.
The only time l got into trouble in school was when we held a party in one of the best hotels in town back then. This story reiterates my earlier point that our authorities just do not care what happens to us. Our own party was held on the same day as that of another fraternity on campus. The Governor of the State was organizing a private party at the state government guest house to be held on the same day as our own party and that of the other fraternity. Unknown to me, the Governor’s aides had warned both our members and the other fraternity to move our parties to another date because they did not want a shortage of girls at the government house party. Can you imagine? It was
Fela Anikulapo Kuti who sang…..?
hear oh another animal talk,
animal talk don start again.
It turns out that on that day, there were no girls for the Governor and his aides to groove with at their party. Buccaneers and the other fraternity don carry their babes. An irate and angry Governor sent a truck load of fully armed Law enforcement personnel to arrest us. I still remember the song that was playing when they walked in and pulled the cord out of the socket and stopped the music.
And Fela sang…them carry everybody go oh inside jail.
We spent a total of two weeks locked up. Not for being Buccaneers, but for denying the authorities the chance to have all the girls to themselves. This was many many years ago. Hopefully, this will not happen today. Who knows.
Students, stop killing yourselves. They just don’t care about you.
Have a great weekend fellows.
PDK