By Sylvester Udemezue (Udems)
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In the farm? Waoh! Is he one of our students? So lovely! I was
like this. Indeed, reminds me of my glorious days in my father’s
farm, hoe or cutlass in hand, tilling and ploughing the farmland,
making mounds for yam and cocoyam, potatoes and ridges for cassava
cutting the grass, clearing the bush, or weeding. How I miss those
good old days when rainfall or downpour on my head acted as a
welcome, motivating, energizing factor for greater strength and
work and to stay focused in the farm. In contrast, today, every
downpour chases us into our houses as if rain or rainfall was once
not welcome on our heads and bodies as a helpful companion during
farm-work. My hoes for tilling and plough, and for making ridges
and mounds, and my machete and cutlass for cutting grasses and
clearing bushes are still intact in my house in the village. Should
the need ever arise, one does not get old in what one knows best
how to do.
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It is however unfortunate that knives, cutlasses and machetes
have now lost their value in our deformed society, and are now
being deployed for chopping/cutting off human heads, human hands
and human private parts of innocent citizens senseless during armed
robberies, needless phone-snatching, brutish ritualism, thoughtless
terrorism, unthinking and unfeeling kidnapping, and for idiotic
ethnic cleansing (such as the lawless, above-the-law terrorist
herdsmen of Nigeria are doing, purportedly in the name of cattle
rearing; which cattle rearing? Are we fools?).
Dear Nigerians and Nigerian youth, knives are for killing
chicken and goats during the Yuletide and other festivities and the
new year, rams during sallah, and for cutting and slicing pepper,
onions, vegetables, yam, cocoyam, potatoes potatoes, etc in the
kitchen and not for harming , maiming or killing fellow Nigerians.
Please, let’s keep and use the knife, machete and cutlass for the
exact purposes for which God gave them to us. Stop misusing,
abusing and misapplying knives, cutlasses and machetes. Stop
killing fellow Nigerians as fouls. We can only build a matchless
and stainless country when we learn to use machetes and cutlasses
for their God-ordained purposes. Our misuse and abuse of knives,
cutlasses and machetes have turned our country into a bloody animal
kingdom where waste of blood is the order of the day. Let’s return
our country to a matchless human kingdom by deploying knives
cutlasses and machetes for their God-ordained purposes. Let’s, one
and all, embrace farming (even if as a hobby or pastime) so as to
give knives, cutlasses and machetes their pride of place. Let 2021
be a human-blood-free year.
Dear armed robber, phone snatcher, Boko Haram terrorist,
kidnapper, ritualist, bandit, terrorist herdsman, cultist-youth and
ethnic cleanser, etc, those people you kill or main with knives,
cutlasses and machetes are not the real problems of Nigeria and
wasting their innocent blood will not bring the solution, good life
or good governance you desperately seek. Wasting human blood, on
the contrary, worsens our condition and your conditions and takes
us back into the dark ages as brutes, savages and senseless
animals. Let’s stop this bloodletting and face a blood-stain-free
Nigeria. We can’t make progress with our hands soaked in blood.
Blood retards progress and diminishes humanity. Let’s respect
knives cutlasses and machetes.
I miss farming. When shall I return to the farm, to continue my
usual mounds-and-ridge-making competition with my ever-energetic
father who already taught me to never waste human blood that I may
myself live because he who lives and progresses by the sword is
sure, no doubt, to retrogress and also ultimately die by the sword,
in line with Karma and Retribution, as what goes round soon comes
around. Thank you, father, for having taught me to never misuse,
abuse or misapply knives, machetes and cutlasses. Thank you,
father. Wishing all Nigerians a happy, peaceful and
blood-stain-free 2021 .
Respectfully,
Respectfully,
Sylvester Udemezue
(Udems)
(farmer-turn-lawyer appreciating a student-farmer)
By Sylvester Udemezue (Udems)
In the farm? Waoh! Is he one of our students? So lovely! I was
like this. Indeed, reminds me of my glorious days in my father’s
farm, hoe or cutlass in hand, tilling and ploughing the farmland,
making mounds for yam and cocoyam, potatoes and ridges for cassava
cutting the grass, clearing the bush, or weeding. How I miss those
good old days when rainfall or downpour on my head acted as a
welcome, motivating, energizing factor for greater strength and
work and to stay focused in the farm. In contrast, today, every
downpour chases us into our houses as if rain or rainfall was once
not welcome on our heads and bodies as a helpful companion during
farm-work. My hoes for tilling and plough, and for making ridges
and mounds, and my machete and cutlass for cutting grasses and
clearing bushes are still intact in my house in the village. Should
the need ever arise, one does not get old in what one knows best
how to do.
It is however unfortunate that knives, cutlasses and machetes
have now lost their value in our deformed society, and are now
being deployed for chopping/cutting off human heads, human hands
and human private parts of innocent citizens senseless during armed
robberies, needless phone-snatching, brutish ritualism, thoughtless
terrorism, unthinking and unfeeling kidnapping, and for idiotic
ethnic cleansing (such as the lawless, above-the-law terrorist
herdsmen of Nigeria are doing, purportedly in the name of cattle
rearing; which cattle rearing? Are we fools?).
Dear Nigerians and Nigerian youth, knives are for killing
chicken and goats during the Yuletide and other festivities and the
new year, rams during sallah, and for cutting and slicing pepper,
onions, vegetables, yam, cocoyam, potatoes potatoes, etc in the
kitchen and not for harming , maiming or killing fellow Nigerians.
Please, let’s keep and use the knife, machete and cutlass for the
exact purposes for which God gave them to us. Stop misusing,
abusing and misapplying knives, cutlasses and machetes. Stop
killing fellow Nigerians as fouls. We can only build a matchless
and stainless country when we learn to use machetes and cutlasses
for their God-ordained purposes. Our misuse and abuse of knives,
cutlasses and machetes have turned our country into a bloody animal
kingdom where waste of blood is the order of the day. Let’s return
our country to a matchless human kingdom by deploying knives
cutlasses and machetes for their God-ordained purposes. Let’s, one
and all, embrace farming (even if as a hobby or pastime) so as to
give knives, cutlasses and machetes their pride of place. Let 2021
be a human-blood-free year.
Dear armed robber, phone snatcher, Boko Haram terrorist,
kidnapper, ritualist, bandit, terrorist herdsman, cultist-youth and
ethnic cleanser, etc, those people you kill or main with knives,
cutlasses and machetes are not the real problems of Nigeria and
wasting their innocent blood will not bring the solution, good life
or good governance you desperately seek. Wasting human blood, on
the contrary, worsens our condition and your conditions and takes
us back into the dark ages as brutes, savages and senseless
animals. Let’s stop this bloodletting and face a blood-stain-free
Nigeria. We can’t make progress with our hands soaked in blood.
Blood retards progress and diminishes humanity. Let’s respect
knives cutlasses and machetes.
I miss farming. When shall I return to the farm, to continue my
usual mounds-and-ridge-making competition with my ever-energetic
father who already taught me to never waste human blood that I may
myself live because he who lives and progresses by the sword is
sure, no doubt, to retrogress and also ultimately die by the sword,
in line with Karma and Retribution, as what goes round soon comes
around. Thank you, father, for having taught me to never misuse,
abuse or misapply knives, machetes and cutlasses. Thank you,
father. Wishing all Nigerians a happy, peaceful and
blood-stain-free 2021 .
Respectfully,
Respectfully,
Sylvester Udemezue
(Udems)
(farmer-turn-lawyer appreciating a student-farmer)