ABUJA (Sundiata Post) Reacting on Twitter to my post about NEPA striking in the middle of Dapo Olorunyomi‘s presentation to my seminar yesterday, one doofus advised me to calm down and stop ranting all the time.
I am in a place and space in life where certain things relating to my basic human dignity are no longer an issue.
On the contrary, the psychologically-damaged idiot giving me life advice to calm down and stop ranting is in a ramshackle state University (I checked) without light or water. He has terrible toilets and defecates via short put. At any moment, tuition fees could be jacked up beyond the reach of his parents and he’d be thrown into the streets. He will most like spend six years in pursuit of a four-year undergraduate degree.
Yet, God forbid I talk about any of the people responsible for this terrible abjection of his life as a millennial in the 21st century. He is in love with his President in love with his Ministers in love with his Governor in love with his Senator.
He is very sensitive about the interest of these characters. He was very upset by how the police treated Dino Melaye. He probably has relatives and friends treated worse every day by the police and has never reacted.
My offence yesterday? The update was not kind to Fashola and that upset him terribly. I was not nice to his amiable Minister!
If you have followed me long enough, you’ll understand that the psychologically-damaged Nigerian in love with his rapists in the political class is my regular customer. I mostly ignore him, only paying attention when he can be used as material for public instruction. Psychological damage, when exhibited by a victim in Nigeria, has its uses as lesson material.
The quality of the young chap’s mind is a function of the quality of the instruction he is receiving in his state University hellhole. He is in that hellhole because the money that should give him dignity and quality instruction has been migrated to swanky private Universities in Nigeria or to public Universities in other countries across Africa as tuition.
Behind many successful cases of public higher education in many African countries are monumental Nigerian tuition fees. If Chad, Somalia, and Niger Republic improved their public Universities a little bit, Nigerian parents will arrive by the truckloads.
Three years ago, I had lunch with a Vice Chancellor somewhere in Africa. He took me through some impressive and ambitious plans he had for his University. I asked what the funding formula was going to be. He momentarily forgot my nationality and discussed his projections based on tuition from Nigeria.
Bamidele and Biodun, you will remember how depressed I was for months after the incident. Here was the leadership of higher education in one African country making revenue and growth projections based on their anticipated increase in tuition from Nigeria. In other words, their salvatuon lies in the continued decay of the Nigerian education sector.
This is what feeds my fervour for Nigeria. This is why I cannot calm down. This is why I cannot stop ranting. If you say the ranting disturbs you, stop punishing yourself by trolling me.
You are not going to be able to do anything about the expression and spread of my opinions about any god you are in love with in the political space so protect yourself by innoculating your space of man-worship against my presence.
You will add to your lifespan that way.
Source: Facebook