THE EVIL INHERENT IN DELIBERATELY SELLING A BAD PRODUCT....

.....Renting out a house built on land with bad history. Former shrine, cemetry.....

.....Giving out an ill-mannered daughter's hand in marriage.

......Or selling a used car or generator with a major fault and not aprising the buyer of the problem, thinking you are just being smart!

You hold the buyer responsible for failing to conduct a thorough investigation of the product before purchase....but you the owner, knowing best about your wares and is best positioned to determine its suitability for sale. You have a duty to inform your buyer of the flaws in your wares....and leave him to decide if he can cope with those flaws.

If you knowingly build your house on a former cemetry or shrine and your tenant a doctor, uses it for his hospital, how do you expect his patients to stay if they imagine seeing ghosts?! If he has no patients, how does he pay his rent? Yet you leave him to renovate your house lavishly and gleefully eject him for rent dafault. You are a fraud!

You "ke" a bad car or motorbike for a buyer. You know the fault would recur after weeks....so his testing the vehicle before payment is of little consequence. The car then has a fatal accident with no survivors! Where is your conscience?

You sell your faulty generator which then breaks down during a delicate surgical operation. So who are you? A murderer!

Your company realises that your beer, juice or table water is poisoned by toxic bateria after release yet you refuse to withdraw it from the market...bullying your staff for suggesting you did. You are a killer!

You sell inferior cables mislabelled as "original". The cables catch fire in a major market or shopping mall killing hundreds. You are a murderer!

The list is endless....
Miss X is a young lady in my neighbourhood. She is always yelling....at children....at her parents...at neighbours.....beating up infants sent to her for "lesson"....so brutally that my hair rises to a stand. And goose pimples spout on my skin. She has a sister to use as a yardstick....who is meek and easy-going....hardly raising her voice.

Miss X reminds me of a particular wife and mother. This wife's manners is at such variance with her siblings that one would think they are not borne of same parents. So is this mother..... Yet their parents gave out their hands in marriage.....expecting their husbands to rectify the behavioural flaws that they the parents, could not rectify.

You know your daughter is an "Aina". That her ill temper dates back to her toddler days....when she would not be appeased when crying. Even at infancy, she would cry so relentlessly for minor infractions. She would roll in the sand and sleep there after exhausting herself! You would then carry her gingerly, give her a bath and lay her down on the bed!

Her temper has failed to improve right into adulthood. She was the one always reported by neighbours for beating up their daughters. You claim you tried your best to correct her but failed. You do not say if you sought medical help. So why give her out in marriage?!

To go destroy the lives of whichever men came her way? For if a wife does not allow her husband a rest of mind, how can he have the coolness of head and the presence of mind to plan his life? How can he attain success in his goals?

Dr Tosin Akindele is a Lagos-based Medical Practitioner, a former Secretary of AGPMPN Ikorodu zone, a former Secretary of the Quackery Committee of AGPMPN Lagos State Branch, founder of Analytical Minds, a good health advocate and social critic.

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Articles by Tosin Akindele