NOKO FIOO...

NOKO FIOOO...

Grey-haired men of honour

Presumably embedded with vision and wisdom

Perfectly qualified to earn the name ‘grand pa’

They throw all caution to the yawning wind

And take their seats in the political realm

Suddenly, as the case may be

They lose all benefits that accompany the grey hair

Men and women of unblemished reputation in academia

Embellished with laurels from archaeology to zoology

Held in high esteem by young and old

They mount political campaign platforms

And suddenly, they get infected with acute verbal diarrhoea

The words which escape from their academic lips 

Are, to say the least, shameful apologies to education and logic

Young and energetic graduates with beaming potentials

Exit the wombs of our priceless educational institutions

With zeal and a quenchless desire to succeed

They graduate with honours in common sense and common logic

One after another

They are innocently led into the political abattoir

With their political libidos skyrocketing to the heavens

Immediately but unsurprisingly, they lose their thinking caps

Common sense becomes their cherished villains

Common logic finds itself oceans apart from them

They speak because they want to exercise their buccal cavities 

Not because they have messages to deliver

They insult and vandalize with the least provocation

Some tag themselves, ‘grassroot tacticians’

To others, they’re ‘party foot soldiers’

They defend the indefensible

While justifying the unjustifiable

When it’s all said and done

Disappointment and frustration hug them from behind

And guess what?

They march out demonstrating on the naked streets

Like baboons on heat

What will make grey-haired political heads

Mess up like teletubbies in public offices?

What will trigger prominent men in academia

To argue and conduct themselves like toddlers in political offices?

What will incite young graduates to labour to attain common sense and logic

And lose it within a simple blink just for the sake of politics?

Your guess is as good as mine

Noko Fiooo.................!!!