Ode to Our Fallen Heroes
After Ali Ndume’s expose, I was moved to adopt and adapt a poem from the book, “A Collection of Soldier’s Poems” for our gallant soldiers killed in the North-east thus:
To all our soldiers past and present, God Bless you all.
Glory to the Nigerian flag, long may she wave.
So many soldiers have been covered with her when they’ve gone to their grave.
Soldiers will stand and fight all night to keep us from harm, while some of us sit at home and refuse to lift an arm.
Some sit around and complain all day how wrong this war must be while soldiers push that aside to continue to fight for you and me.
Some sit around and complain about the food they are going to eat while soldiers work straight through, hungry and weary on their feet.
While you sit around and complain about what you have or where you live, remember what a soldier somewhere is about to give up for you.
Soldiers stand tall, proud and ready for fight. We must stand strong behind them through their hard and arduous plight.
A soldier is the reason our land is home of the free.
A soldier is the one that is brave protecting you and me.
If you are a soldier, I am saying this to you..... thank God for every soldier.
Thank God for what you do!
Mamman Daura and some members of his immediate family are holed up in an apartment called “House 8” in the Aso Rock Villa. He is neither an appointee nor member of President Buhari’s nuclear family. However, he was specially invited by the President to come and live in the Villa. Daura also believes he has every reason to live in the Villa with his family. Aside from being the President’s nephew, Daura has one of his sons and also his son-in-law as aides of the President. This man is the power behind the throne. Call him the head of the cabal running Nigeria and you would be right. So, he lives in the Villa and enjoys public funds. The powerful Daura has been eating from taxpayers’ money for over four years. Nigeria is evidently an interesting country.
Before Daura was moved to “House 8”, he was living much closer to Buhari in the “Glass house” in the Villa. He was forced to move a bit far away because of the need to house the then injured son of the President close to his mother. Now, retaining Daura in the Villa has become a big issue because one of his daughters (Fatima) dragged the President’s wife, Aisha Buhari in the mud over the movement to “House 8”. The video of the ‘fight’ circulated by Fatima was mischievous. The interview she further granted was ludicrous. For me, Daura and his girls have to leave the Villa. Aside from unfairly enjoying public fund, they have become a pest. The only honourable thing left for them to do is to quit the Villa regardless of whether President Buhari wants them to stay or not. Daura can continue running his show even from his village because he has his men all over the Presidency. In this battle with the Dauras, I stand with Aisha Buhari.