LETTER TO THE POLICE AND FOR THE POLICE.

                    
TAKING  INTO COGNISANCE THE RECENT ASSAULT COMMITED BY FAKE POLICEMEN AT ANTHONY,LAGOS.WHERE A MAN WAS LOCKED UP IN THE

TRUNK OF HIS VEHICLE AND WAS ROBBED OF HIS VALUABLES (SEE THE PUNCH WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24 2016) FOR MORE INFO ON THE ISSUE.

IT'S NO LONGER A NEWS OR A RUMOUR THAT THOSE WHO WE CALL POLICE MEN ARE NOW CRIMINALS.YOU REPORT A CASE AND THE OFFICER YOU REPORTED TO WOULD ASK FOR A TOKEN BEFORE DOING ANYTHING OR EVEN ALLOWING YOU TO EVEN WRITE DOWN YOUR STATEMENT.

I FEEL ASHAMED TO RECITE THE 2ND STANZA OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM :

  O GOD OF CREATION

DIRECT OUR NOBLE CAUSE

GUIDE OUR LEADERS RIGHT

HELP OUR YOUTH THE TRUTH TO KNOW

IN LOVE AND HONESTY TO GROW

AND LIVING JUST AND TRUE

GREAT LOFTY HEIGHTS ATTAIN

TO BUILD A NATION WHERE PEACE

AND JUSTICE SHALL REIGN

    

  Why should we live like a MEDIOCRITY stricken citizens ?

WHAT CAN WE SAY THAT WE HAVE PRESERVED;THAT WAS FOUGHT FOR BY OUR FORE-FATHERS ?

PETROLEUM THAT WE OWN,HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A SCARCE COMMODITY?

ARE WE STILL WORTHY OF BEEN CALLED "GIANTS OF AFRICA" ?

FOR GONE ARE THOSE DAYS WHEN MEN WERE READY TO DIE FOR THEIR NATION AND SERVE DILLIGENTLY BUT NOWADAYS, WHAT WE HAVE IS "POLICEMEN ALWAYS HAPPY TO BE ON ROAD PATROL(CHECK-POINTS)" FOR SELFISH REASONS .

Arguably as we have 'corrupt policemen' so do we have few good ones whom I have come in contact with in 2016;

·         THE TWO OLD WOMEN ON THE LAW SCHOOL FALOMO LINK BRIDGE; THESE TWO WOMEN STAND OUT AS BEING EXTRA-ORDINAIRE FOR THEY ARE ALWAYS AT ALERT AND ENSURING FREE FLOW OF TRAFFIC REGARDLESS OF THEIR AGE WITH NO MOTIVE OF ASKING FOR BRIBE BUT ARE ALWAYS THERE TO EAS COMMUTERS.

·         THE MAN AT THE EMZOR-ASWANI ROUNDABOUT,A LIGHT SKIN AGED MAN WHO IS ALWAYS THERE FROM MORNING TILL NIGHT AND ALWAYS ACTIVE WITHOUT PRIOR MOTIVE OF RECEIVING STIPEND FROM COMMUTERS UNLIKE HIS COLLEAGUES WHO ARE YOUNG AND ONLY COME TO MOUNT CHECK-POINTS AT NIGHT FOR THE JOY OF 100NAIRA PER BUS .

·         IRE AKARI-PAKO LINK ROAD ISOLO,A YOUNG MAN WHOM I SO MUCH DELIGHT JOY IN FOR HIS SENSE OF TRAFFIC DIGONGESTION AT NO-NONSENSE PERSON FOR HE SMILES AT ALL TIMES ALONG WITH HIS ASS ISTANT WHO HAPPENS TO BE A FEMALE.

·         AYE BUSTOP ISOLO,AN AGED DARK WOMAN POPULARLY CALLED MAMA FOR SHE SHOWS CLASSICAL DANCE MOVES WHILE CO-ORDINATING TRAFFIC AND IS EVERLY ACTIVE ON THE ROAD EITHER AT AYE OR ASWANI ROUNDABOUT.

ASWANI POLICE DIVISION SPEAKS A LOT FOR THEY PUT TWO CHECK-POINTS NOT TO FAR FROM EACH OTHER AT 5STAR TO EMZOR CORNERS,THE POLICE ARE AFTER PUBLIC TRANSPORTERS WHO WOULD PAY 100NAIRA PER PAY-POINT(CHECK-POINT)

ADVICE TO THE YOUTHS ;

WORK(LABOUR) while you are still a YOUTH .

Nigeria is RICH but Nigerians are POOR.

BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN YOUR ENVIRONMENT..

THINK NOT OF WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU BUT RATHER THINK OF WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY