Chè
Elder Comrade.
Shame no de catch you?
Y?
At 50 plus, you are still wearing red beret, with grey hair all over!
Oh! È de pain you? Yes. Because you lack knowledge. Beret and side arms or AK-47 hanging from your shoulder, are the paraphernalia of a freedom fighter, who is in the bush, struggling for liberation or death.
But Elder Comrade, things would’ve been better, if your generation of Nigerian activists trained in USSR abi Solvet Union, had activated what you learnt on scholarship, maybe there wouldn’t have been need for me to be wearing beret at 50.
Chè, what would you have been wearing?I would have been wearing bowler hat like Chinese Communist leaders or customized French suit, being worn by Sen. Adams Oshiomole, former NLC President. You can see, with his trophy wife, he is no longer struggling for power.
Chè, wetin concern Adams and what we are talking about? Next now, you will mention his vertical challenge. Elder, your generation failed us, that’s why I am still wearing red beret at 50, instead of entering my rest and having an “Aluta È” caressing my scars, while I tell her tales of our exploits during the struggle to liberate woman folk and give them equal fighting chance with men; increasing their chances to be lord and mistress of their political destiny, and not begging for mere 30%
Chè, please go smoke your Cohiba in peace and know that, although my generation underperformed, we did not stop you from pushing us aside and defining your future as you deem fit. You too, are failing yourself and your generation. You ride big cars, build big mansions and do not take eye to see woman with pointing and XL appurtenances.
Elder Comrade, St. Fela captured it well; “My people de fear too much 🎼 🎶..We get reason to fear🎼🎶🎵 I no won die..Papa de for house…Then if you no won die for the new Socialist Nigeria you dream of, stop wearing Red Beret; you can wear any color and go lounge at the banks of Onumurukwa, smoking Cohiba and forget FREEDOM or Liberation of Nigeria from the shackles of crude capitalism.