ABOUT THOMAS AND HIS HOLE OF SHIT

The African society, especially Nigeria is a very arable source for the study of extremist practices. What we do not comprehend fully always finds a way to enslave our minds and reasoning. In the times past, before Christianity and Islam, we were held captive by the fear of fearsome gods like Sango, Amadioha and the likes. So afraid of these deities were we that even their priests were more revered than the gods themselves. These priests in turn took advantage of our forefathers’ fear and became laws unto themselves. They demand for bogus sacrifices, seize people’s wives, buried slaves alive with dead kings, killing of twins, even going as far as establishing the Osu caste in the Eastern parts of Nigeria ( many easterners would still refrain from marrying anyone who is Osu today). 
Then the White man came with all his dazzling ideologies and advancements that were beyond the biggest innovations available to us as at that time. We were blown away. More than that, we began to blow ourselves away too. The greedy kings then started to trade away our able bodied population. At the end, millions of African slaves were sold off to spend terrible and inhumane time in sugarcane plantations America and Europe, with over two million of them dying en route and thrown overboard into the oceans.These aforementioned events happened hundreds of millions years ago. We inherited from the White man education, which was the most lethal weapon used to fight the Colonial masters to obtain our independence. It was tough and bloody in varying degrees in different parts of Africa. The death of Mandela a few months back once again brought to fore the suffering of South Africans under the Apartheid system which brutally murdered both young and old black South Africans in scores. So were the many sufferings we have aided by our own  

The present year is 2014. What we are battling now are our own inner demons. The struggle is now against our very selves. After oil was discovered in 1956 in Oloibiri, everything changed. The struggle changed from total emancipation from the whites. In the very oppressive natures of our fathers, we began to resurrect the slavery we had fought so hard to overcome. They sold Nigeria to foreign oil companies like Shell without even asking for a fair price in return. The Niger Delta was for many years home to mindless oil exploration by these oil companies who with the permission of our greedy leaders deplored the host communities so much so that vast farm lands, bodies of waters and the environments generally have been rendered useless. We are constantly in fear of hikes in fuel prices. Just yesterday, the big story on AIT was on the issue of Kerosene and how it costs as much N140 per litre, as against the N50 naira official price. In a country with a functional government, we cannot enforce something as simple as the price of kerosene. This is just an aside.

Moving on to the crux of this matter, it is certainly saddening how much we swim in curable ignorance in the most arrogant manner. It is only in Nigeria that everything calamitous is the work of demonic forces. Poverty, boko haram, ill health, diseases, bad roads, erratic power supply, accidents, industrial actions, homosexuality, asexuality, even heterosexuality ( in the case of a ‘promiscuous’ female), and just about every other thing that can go wrong is never the fault of any man. The Devil and his demons are always to blame. Sometimes, I think that the Devil does complain of man’s unjust accusations to God too.

Yesterday, a fellow learned colleague of mine, Thomas, who strongly believes that asexuality is a demonic attack rather than a logically explainable medical condition, opens his hellhole and says vociferously, might I add too, that as far as he is concerned, women are nothing but chattels, properties to be acquired and nothing more, (those were his exact words, by the way). Thomas is still in his 20's and unmarried. I guess his failure to smell how shitty his words sounded can be attributed to demonic forces too. Now Thomas and I don’t get along very well because from the very start, I smelled dung even in his response to my greeting the first day of my resumption at the office and even though we were called to bar at the same time, he tries hard everyday, though unsuccessfully, to let me realize he got the office before me. I doubt if we will ever get along anyway. He threw it my face once that he got his mandate to be a first class chauvinistic jackass from the bible. I gave up at that point. There is no redemption for him.

Thomas is not the only one I know who is in this special class. I know quite a hoard of this generation of science and technology that still give so much credence to fetish causation of accidents. A generation that is so religious yet has the record for some of the world’s most heinous crime rates. A country that needs so much foreign aid when government officials are busy siphoning off the tax payers’ money. A country where the man of God is exalted above his shortcomings. Nigeria is a hailing nation and no healing is anywhere in sight.

You might find all of this disjointed but then, it is about Thomas and his shitty hole of a mouth.