Garbages From The Crowd -By Ogbole Agala

Suddenly, there are so many voices seeking by all means to engage everyone’s ear. Many garbage talks pollute the air with smelling things that ignite and sustain vain conversation. Propaganda sells to a large crowd like Saturday morning okrika. Always cheap; always displayed on the ground.

You have an unbridled tongue, so you spit words on anyone, without respect, courtesy or regard. Beware of yourself!

Suddenly, every one now has a pen and paper, so the sacredness of an envelop is lost. “Open letters” fly from pillar to post, from anybody to somebody and then pasted on everybody’s face.

So because you can spell some words, you think you can also write profuse excreta that attracts many irritating comments like flies? Beware of yourself!

Let every Nigerian know that if his or her right to freedom of expression starts from the constitution, it surely ends in the same constitution, where another person’s right to dignity of person begins. Everyone deserves respect, no matter where we stand, behind the ugly shadow of strata cast upon us by our society. Every one deserves freedom, even from word torture.

Let the vain open mails cease; we could use some more money for the post man.
Let every baseless, irrational and absurdly sentimental commentary/propaganda cease; patriotic heads are full of senses!

Ogbole Agala (2015).