Who is a madman.This world is not my own am just passing bye,heaven is my home............................l,good song from late Jim Reeves of blessed memory sang those lyric for a reason which is best known to him,the messages in that lyric shows the doggedness of an individual who is pursuing a greater place more than the earth.
Day to day running about looking for how to survive,the hustlers always on the move for the next point of action,the researcher is ever on the move for a breakthrough in his chosen field.
If I knew the world was this callous and heartless why bother to be here in the first place,sometimes you wished you were gone before you grew to this older age,dying young with grace and living a foolishly old age sometimes worry your soul.
That foolish oldman who has no little pity on that struggling young man is a madman.
That young man who foolishly looks at that old man as a nonentity is but a madman.
That roadside millionaire who forever consider himself big before that 9-5 worker is but a madman.
That heartless bastard who thinks he has made it in life and now consider himself a success is a madman.
Who is a madman?
The Nigerian society and the whole black race seems to fall into this category of who is a madman right from Cape Town to Accra,Lagos to Kingston,Nairobi to Kinshaha they all carry the same trend and pattern of life which is very destructive to the black race.
There is a popular adage in Yoruba which can literally be translated that we all cannot sleep and face the same side,some face left,other right and in between.
The whole black race seems to be sleeping and facing just one aside which has led to the underdevelopment and which will continue for many years to come as their seems no sign for changes.
When Karl Marx said religion is the opium of the people way back then,who was he referring to i guess it is the present black race.
If my fore-fathers allowed it must i allow it,if the way they did then and nothing worked for them must I continue it,if it was graceful for them then who says it will be graceful for me now.
The black race has been dubbed as a people of no written history which has impeded their growth and still continue to impede.Can't one person see for once and have a clear vision for growth and sustenance
We rush for the luxuries of this world which the white man has and continue to produce without considering the cost from cars,shoes,electrical etc always clamouring be it the black race in America,Jamaican in the Caribbean,bloody black African and their worthless so called leaders.
When I was in the secondary school throughout Jakande administration in Lagos state,my parent never paid a kobo as school fees and am asking myself after 26years why am I paying school fees for my children,this show the retrogressiveness in our nation and when you ask those dead skull in government they will tell you that nigeria is a not a failed nation,who is deceiving who!
In conclusion I which to inform you that the following people are indeed madmen.
Somebody who has been in position of authority for so many years and still continue to serve and willing to serve despite no changes is so obvious that he is a madman
When you built you so called homes and you tarred the road right from the main road to your entrance makes you a madman.
When you have served In Various capacities In life and you still can't be recognised for a job well done then you are a madman.
Somebody who allowed at the luxuries of this world to override their thoughts and actions is a madman.
When you buy oil from other countries despite been an oil producing nation then you a indeed a madman.
When you drive all your expensive cars on an untarred roads as a minister of work you are a madman.
when you fly to other countries in other nation's airlines as minister of aviation that makes you are a madman.
when you as a minister of information continue to tell lies about what never happened you are indeed a serious madman.
That guy who smokes ganja,heroin,skunk etc will never know he or she is mad because they live in their own world.