Sunday, 1 July 2012
It was boko hahaha and militia year..... Hip! Hip!! Hip!!! Hurray!!! It
was all a rage, the fumes and plummeting, the year of our lives. 2011,
the year that took somuch from many and the terror it brought so many
afew to count. It was the year that swept our feets off-floor, one that
scruff of the neck and swung us violently round and round threatening to
overrun us. The dirge I heard in Nassarawa, the Ode that moved our
eyelids in kaduna. What about the joy that was stolen from many families
off-foot NYSC in Bauchi. 2011, we, Nigerians stood at the precipice and
peered down the abyss and shuddering in tremulous seizures, we took our
lamp when the dusk was midway all in a step back. Only but one step for
we are still there at the peak of our perdition, at once mortified and
stupefied, ensnared, trapped and condemned. As the memory of 2011 rolls
by do not forget the most of all hiena. Now yuletide of the new year is
fast affluence in our thoughts, may we remember each with a glance at
the most terrifying moment of last year, the events that shook us the
most.. This is what i have as the best fanfare in the 2011" It was a
jubilating hour for the ivory coast (cote 'de' voire) as Lauret Gbagbo
alias 'mr strong' was captured and detained. It was as if the whole
world was in Africa, as the Tunisian stood up to sing the whale song to
Zine El Abedine Ben Ali on 15th jan, 2011. After 23 yrs sit-tight
syndrome, the mighty Ben Ali was toppled out of power in just 23 days of
unrest. The ever strong Ben Ali was feared. A dictator who ruled with
an iron fist and a surplus crony-based corruption that even his fellow
autocrats fled his country like a thief at night. With the successful
tonic seen in Tunisia, the Egyptians saw it a niche to climb to glory,
Calling for an end to president Hosni Mubarak's 30yrs rule. It captured
the world's attention with mass protest from jan. 25, 2011,.across the
country. Amidst the protest, hope for change was born for the wider
North African regions and close Arab countries, though some hundreds of
people died, but it was victory at last. On 11 feb. 2011, when Mubarak
stepped down, the hope of another North African country to follow same
was certain. Then came Libyans pouring out on the street to protest 41
year-rule of yet another dictator. It was Colonel Muammar al- Gaddafi,
the world's longest serving non-royal national leader. But his rulership
was became sour and seems to crash when the libyan pro-democracy
activist called for protest against the 41-year-old autocratic rule of
Gaddafi. The protest was stem already on february 17, 2011. Using social
network to convince people to take to the streets and peacefully call
for change. The call saw the formation of National Transitional Council
(NTC) on 27/02/2011. Story became an international awareness when NATO,
the western force was drawn to libya to oust Gaddafi out of power and to
protect its citizenryIt was a laudable praise when muammar Gaddafi was
rooted out of his hideout on 22/10/2011.And d rest is history.And the
timeline was Nigeria general election on April 18/2011.When Dr.Jonathan
was announced winner of the April16th election. The cry of families will
continue to linger in the heart ofNigerians,many were massacred, miamed
and condemned to death at their prime all in the name of 'will do not
want a southerner up there' hate. Like an epidemic in the air Boko Haram
stormed the street of Maiduguri to take the live they do not create. It
aches to hear yet another bomb blast. Nigerians we're one and 2gether
we shall live. I end with words of Nmandi Azikiwe "its better we
dissintegrate in peace than for us to break in pieces!
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