Poor you Nigeria! -By Adetunji Ayobrown

Even in the weirdest of jungles,

Cats will not kill cubs for asking for milk!

Nigerian father sprayed live bullets on its own kids;

Ram will never kill lamb, nor goats bites its kid because of its rights

But in a peaceful protest, Nigerian youths are mercilessly massacred

By who, Buhari? Who ought to be protecting

Poor you, Nigerian leaders!

That joblessness in youths is allowed is bad and terrible

And now, killing them with bullets is barbaric and satanic

Where is the future of our tomorrow’s leaders?

In another 60 years where will this end

No one killed you while protesting then

Dear fellow Nigerians,

Protecting our Nation is now or never

We better save it now and keep it forever

Our dear country is now or never,

We better save it quick and keep it for good

What a poor choice. Such that we could not be proud of if faced against the Boko haram, the real enemies of the Nigeria nation. Like many warning that were not listened to, now many are unable to bear ineptitude in this particular one. They laid siege as carefully as any army but to wipe out our future. Many felt it wasn’t true, but we shouldn’t be slave to this our national disappointment. That such was allowed by any parent, to have ordered such brutality on defenceless innocent youths of his nation, is terribly sad and unforgiveable.

How weak and fruitless the president’s words and his belated condolences, that actually come after many appeals to conscience. No surprise, none can attempt to beguile our nation from grief for this overwhelming, callous and calculated brutality. Senseless killings of innocent Nigerian youths are unpardonable. Poor you as a father!

Fellow Nigerians, we are fortunate citizens of our individual prestigious lineages, who found ourselves in an unfortunate, extraordinary amalgamated country. No word is good enough to eloquently express the pains in our hearts that after sixty years of nationhood we have little to show for it.

Our office holders had become lovers of themselves more than the lover of our dear nation. Sick self-serving obsessions in their hearts have separated them from our collective will.

But we all cannot refrain from tending our consolations perhaps the families of those fallen heroes could take solace in the fact that whenever a better Nigeria came to be, the victims’ names will be remembered and written in golden on the slate of history.

One has to offer a special condolence on behalf of our nation, as we pray the heavenly father to assuage the anguish of the terrible bereavements.

Destiny has singled out each and every individual life of our youths for great things, those you have killed we missed forever, poor you!

Which way Nigeria, was a song by a late music icon, Sunny Okosun released in 1984, coincidentally it was when Gen. Muhammadu Buhari was also in power.

Only God knows the magnitude of pain and agony in the hearts of Nigerians that was poured into such a song. If many did not know what happened then, our now may be convincing and states even better.

what type of father would kill his children with guns, in cold blood? A question my seven-year-old boy asked me. Moved beyond tears for a long while I couldn’t move my lips.

Nothing is enough for the Nigerian youths, because the FG’s enough is too little in the international standard.

As children, we started our lives with great enthusiasm, contributing, while expecting and when not forthcoming, demanding our rights from our country. Abundantly available, but older generation’s rebuffs and failures, coupled with experience set up boundaries that only get firmer with time.

That you are proud as father or mother that your children are wickedly killed in broad daylight because they are asking for better life; which woefully failed us for over 60years, Poor you!

We are not asking for the moon; we did not raise our requests above international standards that somehow is even not the best. Worthy nations give more to their youths.

Notably, only unreasonable man will set such low price on himself, through his youths, like Nigeria did.

Franklin Roosevelt said the only limitation of our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubt of today. As if we don’t belong here, it is still within our powers to set our own price. But somehow, very few simply view this globalised demands from hopeless frame of references.

Maurice Freehill asked, “who is more foolish, a child afraid of darkness or a man afraid of the light?” But know this, Nigerian youths has finally risen, we have woken up, better beware.

Ghosts won’t ride China-built trains, even with all the questionable Chinese loans. But who is to advise him that when all are gone such loans become useless. That it is ordinary common sense. How else will you judge the future if not with what you suffered from the past?

What we had coming from Buhari, a product of many protests in his address is unbelievable.

Perhaps, option of a poor choice for him forced his hands into action, of him killing his children, wiping out his nation’s beautiful future, what a poor choice which can only come from insensitivity? Any security personnel who saw our nation’s flags in protester’s hands raised in peace and still shoot without any mercy, poor you!

Between mission and men; may be it is the wrong allocation of valuable military resources, which has always been in the news before that has come to play again. Those assets that seem not readily available elsewhere where they are better needed.

Tell no one I told you, Nigerians youths are ready to die on their feet rather than on their knees. When promises became winds and life seems meaningless; where so much had been sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. The youths are ready to face the future.

Little wonders, why the problems in the northern part of Nigeria nation persist, when fathers are gun touts, only gods know what becomes of the children? Nigeria poor you as nation, that whoever allowed such calamity to befall innocents’ citizen deserve a dishonour for whatever the reason he claimed. Poor you!

Youths are the pillars of the nation. We should remember that the likes of Buhari were not killed by their fathers that is why they in power today. Protests and confrontations educate the senses to come into actions. The uprising in the Arab world should be a lesson. If you are happy with the current situation of the nation, you can’t expect others to be happy with same glaring underdevelopment. If it can’t start with you, Nigeria’s progress must start with our generation. This is a wakeup call.

Little wonders, why the problems in the northern part of Nigeria nation persist, when fathers are gun touts, only gods know what becomes of the children?