What a Generation of Mad People! A society that is engulfed with different kinds of temperamental and intellectual capacities, and different kinds of behavioural attitude. It is expected that everyone in such society must not be well conducted. Some must be mad and ludicrous to keep the society moving. The good and the bad, the hot, the warm and the cold, make the society what it is.
A society saddled with the responsibility of affecting this generation positively has become flippant and toothless like the dog which barks and doesn’t bite; a society bestowed with several talents are being rendered ineffective just like the difference between rat and rabbit in spite of their differences. We are in a society where people behave like animals, despite the fact that, though we are all political animals. We are different from other animals. It’s true that not all human beings are truly humans; some are animals on the inside.
This is a country where people choose to be reckless than to be responsible, a society where a recalcitrant mediocre is being given honour, given the best position over the educated ones, a society where the female folks prefer to expose their breast, including some of the married women; a society where the female folks expose their belly and the systematic movement of their waist, all in the name of attracting men to themselves. They also indecently expose their inner wears. Ours has become a society where the male folks now prefer to wear their trousers below their waist. It is a socialized doctrine of want however derived from some European prisoners. We are in a society where people failed interviews yet were taken; others passed and were denied employment. What a generation of Mad People; a society where the male folks now plait their hair which indeed is the domain of the female folks. This is an absurd behaviour.
Ours is a society where cultism has taken the lives of many youth untimely, a society where some of the male folks now wear a set of earrings in the name of fashion, an action which has led them into earthly captivity; a society where some parents encourage their daughters to indulge in prostitution so as to bring home, ungodly currency- with reference to some mothers. It is a society where parents encourage their daughters to venture into the prostitution lane, a high profile strumpet!
A society where prostitution has become a profession for most Nigeria girls as it has made some contract diseases and die untimely. Many were also used for rituals by their illegitimate lovers who have pretentiously styled themselves as “Yahoo boys”. We are in a society where even the teachers and lecturers that were supposed to nurture their students, nurtured them in their beds; a society where people who got wealth through dubious means are overwhemingly prayed for in the alter by political pastors who acted on false declaration of being designated “MOG”. What a generation of mad people! A society where armed robbers, kidnappers, cultists, ritualists, miscreants, demons in human looks, agberu, internet fraudsters otherwise known as Yahoo boys are being awarded “Chieftaincy Titles” by money driven Kings.
A society full of educated mad people where those who claim to be educated fight in public; a society where those who claimed to have been Honourable Members of the Legislature are dishourable fellows due to their dubious character. Ours is a society where leaders brazenly engage in criminal activities such as assassination just to get to power that lacks authority. They also embezzle, as well as deliberate killing and looting of the public fund for their personal aggrandizement. These are leaders who own exotic mansions in the UK, USA, France, Abuja, Dubai and other parts of the world in a country where the grassroots rarely have two square meals to feed with. What a generation of mad people!
Ours is a society where people who are violent, insensitive outright mediocre and dubious elements are celebrated and worshipped as demi-gods. Ours is a society where murderers are exalted to high public offices instead of facing the wrath of the law. They say, give the goat to the thief to keep to avoid it being stolen. Ironically, that is the most bitter of it all, to wear the yoke of our wrong doings. What a generation of mad people. A society where political animals, the most notorious who steals from the public purse and convert that which belongs to the masses to his is given a preferential treatment, in the guise of “House Arrest”.
A society where old men who are supposed to have set good examples for the future mothers of the land to emulate, ironically, end up destroying the young girls by taking them to hotels just to have sexual intercourse with them and unfortunately, sometimes too, get them pregnant for their parents to cater for. These include girls under thirteen. What a barbaric world, a society where talents are not encouraged or appreciated; a society where people could intentionally eat their future through flirting, violence, stealing of ballot boxes at elections polls. What a generation of mad people we are in.
We are in a society that is against itself, where there are first class and second class citizens, a society where those who made the law that govern people for peace and tranquility fight publicly in their Chambers with the aid of dangerous weapons. What a stupid society; a society where some graduates cannot differentiate between rat and rabbit despite their differences, half-baked graduates and societal nuisance.
This is a hocus-pocus society where the people who are public treasury suckers who labelled themselves “Honourables, Justice of the Peace” and “His Excellency” and so on fight publicly in their agbada and glittering suit wears, a society where fake pastors and false prophets claimed to have been called by God, so as to exploit from the public, their unsuspecting members. A society where one man wants to dictate the tune, a society where people who neither studied nor attended classes got the best results. What a generation of mad people.
We are in a society where people who are qualified for a particular job are denied the opportunity; a society where poverty has been declared a king to rule over the indigent citizens, to rule and dictate the tune. Ours is a society where Senior Political Leaders who call themselves “Party Chieftains” who ought to have attracted the construction of roads that link their houses had no conscience to do so because they simply believed they could easily drive their mighty Jeeps in the epileptic, dilapidated roads while others swim in it particularly when it rains. Is this not generation of mad people?
A society where borehole water has taken over the water board business, where even the water that we drink, we paid for; a society where people happily dumb refuse to block the flow of gutters and curvets, yet complain that erosion has taken over their homes. What a wonderfully mad society! We are in credulous societies where teenagers are too ready to accept every style of life, where young girls commit abortion on regular basis, with full parental support of their parents “Go and abort it”
A society where females smoke in parties, both cigarettes and India hemp (Igbo), a society full of drunks where young men now journey to nearby counties just to earn wealth under-door, where youth prefer to be recusant than to be responsible; a society where an eleven year old girl who ought to be in school turns out to be a mother. Ours is a society where one man gets married to many wives even when he has no job, thereby making the children miscreants of tomorrow. What a generation of tears! A society where confidence game (419) and pick pocket has become a profession, a society where young ones now have to journey to Malaysia just to have their kidney sold for the sake of money; a society where young ones are compelled to journey through the desert just to get to Europe, all in the name of money. Many die in the high sea in Libya, Morocco while few succeed. It is obvious that we are in a society where young girls could wear uniforms to school and still put additional wears in their bag, just to later change and locate a spot. What a generation of mad people!
By: Assin Godstime
Publisher, Up-to-date Current Affairs on Urhobo Nation; Legal Luminary; Author; Historian & a Journalist
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