Deey ridiculous mind 1: ALUU WANNABE, SMH!

Imagine what was going through my mind when I saw this picture…

Yes!!! You got it right. Aluu community massacre!!!  Another set of hoodlums, most likely members of the community had caught some alleged criminals again and are taking laws into their hands.  And once again, no law enforcement insight to stop the ludicrous behaviour.  With no look of surprise, I hissed and tossed my blackberry aside. I was just about drifting into sleep to relief my present predicament of boredom when it suddenly occurred to me that there was something about the picture that was vaguely familiar. I picked up my phone and clicked on the option of zoom-in. 

Zoomed picture:

I couldn't stop staring at the young lady in the picture. She seemed to have a striking resemblance with my friend, Wini…“Oh My God!  It is she?”, I screamed.

Imagine the terror that gripped me almost immediately. I searched for her number on my contact to call her up. I was trying to contain a panic that was now gripping my very being. I cut the call when I started to hear the voice reminding me I needed to recharge my phone. I sorted to reach her through blackberry messenger instead. Her display picture caught my attention…

I PINGED!!! her severally.  She was taking too long to either read or reply. My panic was mounting and confusion at the puzzle of how she still had the time to be posing for picture didn't help either. The question running through my mind to ask her was if she had been caught for stealing but I typed, “Are you still ALIVE?” (In those exact words) instead. At this point, my messages where showing that it had been read. When she replied “lol” and updated her pm, “See my life o, because I am graduating”. I sighed! I had no cause to worry after-all. She couldn't have stolen anyway *naaahhhhh*, I don’t have criminals as friends (I hope!*fingers crossed*).  She goes on to inform me she had just finished her final exams and the community of Ekenwan campus, Benin- city (her course mates and friends actually) decided to take laws into their hands on the alleged fresh graduates. "She was making a joke about it", I relaxed completely.

I was fully awake by now and drifting into my own thoughts....... 

 “Were Ugonna, Lloyd, Tekanna and Chidiaka actually guilty of the crimes that got them condemned to death?”.......

“Even if they were actually guilty of stealing phones and laptops, was taking their lives the right punishment?”........

 “How peacefully could those Aluu community members involved in the massacre have slept that night?”........

“How hurt and devastated the families of the victims must be feeling right now?”.........

“When are we going to stop standing aside and watching these lawlessness go on, realizing we have sunk-deep?”.........

I felt goose bumps start to grow on my skin; I reached for my phone and updated my display picture on blackberry messenger......

  

 I updated my personal message; “SMH!”

  

“SMH!” at that contact that wanted to give me a heart condition by updating her display picture with such a ridiculous Aluu wannabe *sigh.

 “SMH!”at those people who chose to use their phones to video the gruesome murder of Ugonna, Lloyd, Tekanna and Chidiaka (May their souls rest in peace), instead of using those phones to call for law enforcement to control the situation. Did anyone other than me see those videos? That is the next week of being unable to stomach a meal guaranteed! 

 By the way, my non-alleged criminal friend (thank God for that) didn't drown, she’s hale and hearty and has given me permission not to show her “wowo” face in this post. She has only since been happily baptised in that pool of mud water as she graduates to join the rest of us in this crazy lawless country. Need I not forget the joblessness as well? God help and keep us all!

I see the life beyond these...

I see the life beyond this!

Even as I realise there would be lots I’d miss.

There is a better one out somewhere

Beyond these places humans ever were

I see way past all I had seen before

Not just because of my ticking time

But because I'm realising this place isn't mine,

Not for long, any more.

There’s a peaceful place out there

A haven of manger’s mare

I see this life beyond this one

And not simply because I have been told it exists,

But after all these pains are all gone,

There ought to be a reward of peaceful rest.

I feel none the pain of all my body’s weakness

In my mind holds the promise of brightness

Of blinding light,

Of jingling bells,

A recovery passed the excruciating pains

None of syringes and protruding tubes.

Of rewards and promises kept

Of assurances that sufferings never last

I see a better place than this,

Of wings,

And of happy faces.

Of dress code in which the new blue’s white

I'm starting to see peace al-right!

And I am assured of this amicable place.