Nigeria Will Survive This Tempest and Live Again !! By Oyewale Oyegoke Solomon

Nigeria Will Survive This Tempest and Live Again !! By Oyewale Oyegoke Solomon.

I was driving from church sometimes in April this year with my family members in the car and few neighbors. I saw a mob surrounding a particular woman whose clothes had already been tore and she was laying down stacked nacked. I parked and went to ask questions from the mob,

So I realized the mob beat the woman up cos they saw her wandering, sauntering and scouting around the area and erroneously mistook her to be evil because she could not mention where she was going specifically.

She was almost dying and the mob stylishly leaving her. Won ti N ja pa.

I spoke to her with utmost respect despite her despondent position. She managed to answer me. According to her, she came to trace her runaway husband who had abandoned home and left her to face responsibility of catering for four children. She was reliably informed the man stays with another woman, a rich widow around that area. I saw vividly her sunken stomach and sagged breasts, showing she had laboured the labour of raising children in poverty. You know I was very closed to her. I saw her well. Her remaining lining was too dirty, a casualty of her choice.

I removed my suit jacket and removed my inner shirt, and wore it on her blood stained body. It was done openly. I wore my jacket back with my cloth gone for good. The mob was looking at me in awe.

I pulled her up, called her a motorcycle and offered her #2k. I gave the bike man #500.00. Some other present started to give her money. There was a sigh of relief in her gesture as she regained her confidence.

I proceeded back to the car as I watched her leaving on the back of the motorbike I had called. I was happy I saved a soul. Even if the soul is not saved eventually (she may end up not surviving it), I saved her of public shame and psychological death. I felt fulfilled I did.

Atimes the situation may look so hopeless and most of the times due to shortsightedness or idiosyncrasies of some people, who are superficially wrong and don t know how to clean up the mess they caused. There is nothing wrong cleaning the mess up even for them. Even if the foul smell won’t go away.

I see as weakness in those who won’t admit their errors and roll their sleeves to clean their mess. Yet, I feel more terribly worry about the passerbys and active alloofers who won’t care to be part of the solution because they were not part of the genesis of the problem; Especially the sweet talkers and pessimist analysts who would love the problem remained and still behave as saints catching wrong doers. Are they not worse off? Abeg come off it!

No matter how little, even if there is no hope of recovery or rejuvenation, I will always be part of the solution.

Nigeria will survive this tempest storm and she will live again. Amen.

Good Evening All.

Oyewale Oyegoke Solomon writes from Ibadan.