By Ayo Baje
“Please,
pray for me. I have reasons to believe that my life is in
danger and that some powerful political forces want to silence me forever
for speaking the truth. For speaking on behalf of the holy martyrs of
thousands of innocent children, women, elderly and youths that have
been killed in our beloved country. It is only in our benighted
country that a man who speaks from his conscience can be hounded like
a common criminal.”
–Dr. Obadiah Mailafia (now of blessed memory) on September 11, 2020
In life he was definitely one of the few bearers of the
unquenchable torch of timeless Truth. And he must have seen death coming, for
having the audacity to speak that same bitter Truth to power. More so, in this
long, dark tunnel of quasi-democracy garbed in the bloody garment of daring
despotism. So, it was only a matter of time for the haters of Truth to undo
him, characteristically in nebulous circumstances. Talk about the ominous hoot
of the owl at midnight and the sudden death of the naked baby the next
dawn!
But as yours truly has insisted, “Truth is eternal while lies are short-distance runners”. Or, to put it in the warm words of the legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson, “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons ‘.
