The Good Die Young but the Wicked Live Long!

By Anthony Chuka Konwea, PhD, PE
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Dr. Obadiah Mailafia

The rate at which opposing voices to the revanchist, primeval Muhammadu Buhari Administration are falling into the deep sleep of death is becoming statistically suspicious.

The late departed Dr. Obadiah Mailafia was hounded, and persecuted almost unto death, for his staunch defense of the poor, down-trodden, internally displaced, indigenous Nigerians.

People do not know what toll, the uncertainty of when next, Talibanic state agents will come for you, tells on the health of men.

The driving around with one eye behind your back.
The waking up at night to peep through your windows when you hear strange noises.

These things are all enough to wear down the hearts of the stoutest of men.

We want to leave it at that for lack of any conclusive evidence.

Even for the vocal bredrins abroad, we want them to take care because the same people who crated Alhaji Umaru Dikko almost 40 years ago before he was fortuitously rescued by eagle-eyed London Police are very much back in power in Nigeria.

They cannot grow the Nigerian economy.
They cannot govern without humongous external borrowings.

They cannot arrest the proliferation of poverty.
But they are experts in international renditions, proficient in the Talibanic abuse of democracy, accomplished in the suppression of the human rights of indigenous peoples, and black-belt holders in the application of terror to steal landed territory from indigenous Nigerians.

Sadly, we note that this true Nigerian patriot, the late Dr. Obadiah Mailafia was harassed by the goons of the Nigerian security services, who invited him to their dumps and dungeons, not once, and probably not twice.

What role their persistent harassment played in his early demise is yet to be assessed or ascertained.

These are the same Talibanic state agents of terror who chose not to see when foreign Fulani bandit-terrorists flooded the country, and took over the Nigerian countryside, without any molestation but rather acquiescence by themselves, the Army, and the Police.

Not until recently, when the over-indulged Fulani bandit-terrorists turned their terror upon the military by attacking Army formations, history shall recall that the Muhammadu Buhari Administration, for the sake of seizing the natives' ancestral lands for Fulani resettlement, chose to disarm indigenous Nigerians, rather than confront those bandit-terrorist monsters.

To this day, the Administration have turned their backs on indigenous refugees stranded in Internally Displaced Peoples camps, whose misfortune the late Dr Mailafia continually bewailed and lamented.

But each day we hear of plans, or rumors of plans, to borrow money, and vote billions in the rehabilitation and resettlement of “repentant” Fulani bandit-terrorists, as a state duty, when the same cannot be extended to the displaced victims of their murderous rampages, for nepotistic and discriminatory reasons.

Adios my bredrin in the struggle against Fulani expansionism, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia.

May Jah Jesus Christus absolve you of your shortcomings and grant you eternal repose in his mighty bosom.

Indeed, while many cowered and joined the side of the oppressors and persecutors, for the sake of bread, you lent your weighty voice, and stood up to be counted, on the side of the oppressed.

The good die young, but the wicked live long to commit more atrocities.

That is the way of life and a measure of Jah's patience with the wicked.

But all shall face Jah's glorious Judgement, where there is neither bribery, nepotism nor partiality.

For indeed Jah no partial.
Adios Dr. Obadiah Mailafia!