Dear Daughter series 2

 Sunday, 6 December, 2020.

Dear daughter,

I was hoping to wait for the new moon before I would write to you my warmest and newest feeling about you as a child  in my arm to cuddle. But the tornadoes rocking the world have refused to calm, and  the government has become catastrophic.

Imagine the killing of 62+ rice farmers in a country whose borders have been closed on food especially rice for two years, and the government who is supposed to secure lives and properties  blaming it on lack of caution of the farmers. 

Let me make it clear to you, we thought we have a messiah to rescue the north east and deliver Nigeria from poverty, until the change government started parading the shamble of our years of deception.

We celebrated the defeat of Boko Haram that has been killing indiscriminately in the year 2015, only for  them to massacre communities while they take cover from the same government in 2017, 2018, 2019 and till today, only we who live know that our lives are on the line. Should we continue to fool ourselves?

Imagine a country that continues to grant terrorists  amnesty but orders killing of the innocent youths agitating for their freedom from the brutality of the country's special anti-robbery squad (SARS). They tagged them as hijackers and gunned them down like fowls without root. This is my country!

Hope you now know that my teeth which have been damaged by stones will no longer be the price to pay, because my stomach may not even have any to stomach for years, and your germination may be unhealthy if the government continues its controlled capitalism strategy.

 I didn't want to write to you about this at first. I wanted to give you a glad tiding about our relationship, I wanted to tell you about my new found name for you like what an eager mother that I am should do, but I guess you will bear with me, I love you.

Your Mum.