If Sudan and Hong Kong should visit Nigeria today, the world might
not be in much shock at the outcome of the trip. I’m sure of two consequences.
First, we would be unprepared for them,
despite the handwriting on the wall alerting us that we’ve been found wanting
in the balances. In much of our post-independence history, we were never seen
to be ready for events that came calling like a ‘‘thief in the night.’’ How do
we handle nocturnal robbers? We don’t cuddle them. We cull them.
Secondly, flowing from the first, our leaders
would misread the signs of the times and accord the strangers a most satanic,
sanguinary and smoky reception. Ditto for the local ‘malcontents’ hosting them.
Our leaders would chase them to the outermost and innermost parts of the land
and mete out penalty outstripping their impudence that brought in Hong Kong and
Sudan.
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| *Korean soldiers |
