NIGERIA RECEIVING BUHARI’S CHANGE INJECTIONS

By Uchendu Precious Onuoha  (Special Correspondent)

NIGERIA RECEIVING BUHARI’S CHANGE INJECTIONS

I had a headmaster during my primary school days whose name was “Sir Odim Uto” meaning “it Sweets me sir”. No scholar knew his real name. Sir Odim Uto was a nickname derived from his peculiar manner of dishing out strokes of cane in the name of discipline to scholars. If you are to receive Sir Odim Uto’s twelve lashes of cane in your buttocks, you would be mandated to say under that severe pain, it sweets me Sir as the strokes land on your buttocks.

The fear of Sir Odim Uto’s punishment was the beginning of wisdom for us kids. And as a child my daily prayer before going to school used to be, “Our Father Who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name… lead me not into temptation but deliver me from Sir Odim Uto’s cane in Jesus name Amen”. To survive the pains of Odim Uto’s strokes though meant for good and corrective purposes was like passing through the valley of the shadow death.

Today, Nigerians are under the strokes of a new Headmaster Buhari, with his string at hand injecting doses of change, and as painful as the change pills and injections may be, Nigerians as helpless kids under the Headmaster, like or dislike, must receive doses, strokes and swallow the bitter pills of change.

A few months ago, under Jonathan whom the current leadership slams as “evil genius” as he is cast in the light of being responsible for all the woes and things that went wrong  in the country in the past even before Nigeria was born. Under him, the press and Nigerians enjoyed an air of freedom of expression in the media to a large extent.

Jonathan was criticized as inexperienced, incompetent, clueless, drunken master of Otuoke and things like that and nobody was harassed. But today under our new Sir Odim Uto the Headmaster, effort has been put in place to emasculate the social media by firing the first salvo to pass a law against the social media. The DSS the directive of Sir Odim Uto has unleashed a reign of terror on the media and are secretly going after journalists and those who say something against our Headmaster in the social media.

Among  Bihari’s series of change doses which he is administering to Nigerians are ; Fuel price hike, Falling Naira, Poor electricity supply, Salary delay, Decaying Infrastructures, Rising cost of living, Hyperinflation, (Fulani herdsmen ) sorry that was a slip of pen, I mean  Libya herdsmen.

After these first set of change doses which are just but appetizers and the beginning of pains and sorrow, the Headmaster cum Doctor will introduce a new style of treatment and cure called ACUPUNCTURE,  which is a specialized form of treatment in the medical field.

At that stage the injections would not only be through the buttocks but will pierce his syringe through the eyes, nose, ear, tummy and all parts of the body of his patients. By that time, Nigerians may not continue to say ,”it sweet me sir” but will react  and say , oga, iget as  ide do me…Until then the change injection continues.