Nigerian at 60 independence

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4 years ago

It's absolutely nothing to be happy about

Don't shout 'happy Independence' to my ears

For there's nothing happy about the Independence

The dysfunctional laws in the Constitution are not happy;

The rickety roads infested with numberless potholes

And stained with fresh blood of accident victims are not happy;

Even the undervalued Naira plagued by the mismanagement

Of a corrupt and deadbeat economy is not happy!
Before you shout your fallacious phrase,

Go up North and ask the misplaced citizens,

Living their lives in perpetual dread of terrorism,

If they are happy,

Go down South and ask the sorely marginalized folks,

Tortured by a genocide and jam-packed against their will since the '70,

If they are happy;

Before you shout your fallacious phrase,

Ask the disgruntled parents, whose daughters were carted away

Like cheap goods by brainwashed religious gunmen,

If they are happy;

Ask the bereaved children and widowed wives,

Whose fathers and husbands have been showered with hot bullets from the mindless muzzles of insurgency,

If they are happy;

Before you shout your fallacious phrase,

Ask the innocent youths who are victims of police brutality

If they are happy.....so pathetic

Ask the myriad of ...molested girls whose rapists roam the street scot-free

If they are happy;

Go on, ask the frustrated graduates without worthy employments

If they are really happy

Before you shout your fallacious phrase

Tell me, what's really happy about the Independence

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