Dedication to the who-is-who politician by Umukoro Othuke Isaac

He is the Man

Exporter and Importer

The throne of affluence

As a child, money was his toys of play

So he learnt early to suck his people dry

At will, thousands eat the crumbs from the tip of his fingers

Millions suffer from his sacred siphoning.

But something happened

A thing that was really out of the blue

Whether it was the wishes of silent gods

Or the work of his few conniving foes

He found himself in jail

Not the ordinary and filthy ones you and I know

Or the rat and cockroaches-ridden ones

Those ones are meant for the human right activists

Not for the human eaters like him

His had the calming soft pillows

And the silent humming of the artificial air

A jail is a jail, I guess!

So by some slice of injustice, he got himself out

Behold how the mighty are risen

Newspapers wept in celebrating headlines

JUSTICE AT LAST!

The sipping pen of destinies destroyed

The cocktails that followed were innumerable

Isn’t he Mr. Exporter and Importer?

So the finest wines graced the occasion

And because it was the Lord’s doing

The pastor of his church dedicated the service to him

A crown to the whole charade of sickness!

Umukoro Othuke Isaac, a writer and seasoned orator, is a final year student of the Department Of Theatre Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State.