By TUNDE BUSARI
Watching that 73-year-old man helplessly on his knees, facing a downpour of curses and absorbing a hot slap by a palace slave, was a gory sight and a nightmare that nearly cost me my deserved sleep this morning. The man may have been caught at the wrong side of the monarch’s law before being dragged to the floor and dehumanised before the world.
The finger that recorded that scene and released the clean video, did us a big favour. Safe for that picture and Facebook, that Baba would have been successfully humiliated, probably killed and buried noiselessly as boasted by his captor.
Thank you, Ogun State Government. Thank you. Ogun State Police Command. Thank you, social media citizens who acted children to Baba and cried for justice for him. The boy that slapped him shouldn’t be allowed to return to his wife and children. Aside his six-month suspension, the king must produce the overzealous boy and other disposable chanting his panegyrics while descending on that Baba.
Cameras are everywhere now, actively capturing everything for the waiting Facebook. Before you talk, before you act, before you do anything, think and weigh the options. You shall be recorded!
Family of Baba shouldn’t be chorusing song of praise over this prompt justice for their father. They should rally round him now, serve him good food, engage him in talks, show him good movies and let him see a brighter future ahead. If not, that is, if isolated, Baba may be rounding off due to the pinch of that experience in him. His esteem as head of a people had been killed yesterday. The video is everywhere. Then, what remains?
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A strong man in the age of our forefathers would just quietly go to his bedroom and sleep forever. This shall not be the portion of this Baba who looked more innocent of the charges against him than a suspect. But his family and friends should help him, work on him to reactivate his soul, his mind and his spirit to live further.
The police authorities should prove that truly the law enforcement agency is not a tool exclusively for privileged individuals who know “ogas” at the top; that was what that lawless man said obviously to kill the hope of Baba.
Even if the cursing king is returned to the stool after the end of his suspension, he has lost it. At the airport, at mall; anywhere he goes, his face is in the memory of all. So, he has lost the hails of K-a-b-i-y-e-s-i ooo.
God bless this new technology; there is no longer a hidden place to commit such sacrilege again without a backlash. Cameras are everywhere now, actively capturing everything for the waiting Facebook. Before you talk, before you act, before you do anything, think and weigh the options. You shall be recorded!
