By V.C Mba, Esq.
Citizens: Mr. President, we’re hungry and destitute.
Mr. President: Oti o, mba nu, please hold your governors responsible, they have received a thousandfold more than all their predecessors combined since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Citizens: We can’t Sir, they do not owe us their offices, they owe it to you as the command in chief who never hesitates to further fortifications around the already impregnable firewalls around them. They’re neither answerable nor accountable to us.
Mr. President: Find a way around it to hold them to account.
Citizens: Such as?
Mr. President: Such as going to court to compel them to make chapter two of the constitution justiciable.
Citizens: Well, Mr. President, why not lead by example?
(Flustered but managing to remain calm)
Mr. President: Don’t get me angry, I’ve told you how much I’ve given to your governors, all you have to do is to hold your state governors to perform or account for the trillions I’ve graciously given and still giving them.
Citizens: (exasperated) ok, Mr. President, provide for us at least security of lives and property so we could till our lands, harvest our crops and raise our families in peace.
Mr. President: defend yourselves.
Citizens: How, Mr. President, with barehands, our states governors are mere figure heads and chief security officers and not even the Boys Scouts Movements and other unarmed voluntary and paramilitary outfits take orders from them, they’re as useless as we are helpless. Please help us, Mr president.
Mr. President: I won’t entertain further questions gentlemen, I’d have to catch my flight for an all important multilateral economic summit in France, sort yourselves out how best you can.
Citizens: (a cacophony of several voices simultaneously asking several imponderable questions all at the same time as Mr. President saunters away leaving unanswered nagging questions nibbling away the soul of the country.
We may as well outsource the presidency Mr. President, a citizen cried in a loud gutteral voice, since you’ve outsourced everything else to the states governors, who themselves are equally as useless to the solutions as we’re helplessly hopeless, he shouted as Mr president disappears through the exit wing of the International airport.
(Somehow swore on the grave of his ancestors that he heard another citizen asked)
Citizen: But Mr. President, babies, some as young as two years and their caregivers have been abducted and have been in custody for more than a fortnight, is there not anything this government could do about the worsening insecurity, you son of a b.. tch?
The lights fade, and exit all.
