Tunde na one of my
personal padi when I been dey for university, and I like the guy wella wella.
If anybody sick, na Tunde go carry the matter for head; if you no dey class, na
Tunde go do photocopy of him note for you and the guy writing fine no be small.
E be like say na computer dey type one kind wicked font for him note.
But as people wey
get sense dey talk, nobody dey perfect. E get something dey wey spoil Tunde -
him no sabi cook! And instead of him to try improve, na so so excuse e go dey
nack you. If Tunde cook any food for you, even if na ordinary white rice, comma
must dey inside. E no go gree listen to you sef, if you wan talk. Anything wey
you complain about, the guy get something to take answer you. If na salt too
much and you complain, my guy go tell you say make you use mouth wey no get
salt chop am or make you comot the salt for your mind and chop the food. Tell
Tunde say salt no reach and e go tell you say make you lick salt and chop the
food. The one wey the guy dey do wey dey pain me pass na if him cook food wey
no done. When you complain, the answer wey this crase boy go give you na ‘chop
am like that, e go done for belle’!
Courtesy: myhealthandwellnesscoach.com |
You fit dey wonder
sey wetin konsign you about Tunde, wey make I dey yarn plenty. The thing be say,
na the same problem wey Tunde get na him Nigeria get. The way wey Tunde dey
take reason say e go done for belle na im oyinbo people dey call ‘mediocrity’. Instead wey we go do as
things go better, we dey belleful with the attitude of ‘chop (or manage) am
like that; e go better after’.
Na that yeye
behaviour dey make us no dey start preparation on time (for sports competition),
and when competition wan start, we go begin spend money like say we dey pluck
am for tree. See the Olympics wey just finish some weeks ago na. We been dey
think say e go done for belle, but by the time e happen, dem clear our doubt! Even
wooden medal sef, we no fit take come back (if not for the Paralympians wey
comot shame for our eyes). But nothing go change o! Nobody go answer question
for how we manage spend plenty money for nothing... and when time reach for
next Olympics we go start another ‘e go done for belle’ preparation.
Na dis same mediocrity
make ‘small sickness’ catch our President wife sick and dem carry her go obodo
oyinbo, sake of say our own hospital for here no ‘done’ reach to treat Her Excellency.
Make we no forget how long late President Yar’adua stay for hospital abroad
before e die o, and plenty other Naija people wey we sabi wey no dey near our
hospitals. For those of us wey pocket no reach to go outside Naija, no wahala,
we go manage am like that.
I no wan talk about
our schools whether na primary, secondary or even the higher institutions. Na
there this ‘e go done for belle’ behaviour ‘done’ pass. Teacher for primary
school no go teach pikin wetin e suppose know, e go say e go know am later. The
pikin go reach secondary school and the teacher for there go say e suppose don
sabi the thing. Na so the pikin go carry ‘undone’ knowledge go university. When
e comot for there, companies go talk say ‘Nigerian graduates are not well
baked’! Baked ko, fried ni! Like say no be all of us get the fault.
Abeg my people, this
na time to begin rearrange the way we dey think. Anything wey we wan do, make
we dey do am well, sake of say if e no done, na all of us go suffer am.
Make I go check the
food wey I put for fire before e go ‘over-done’ because I no fit say make e ‘undone’
for belle later.
My name na Osowe
Oluwagbenga
@gbengaosowe for Twitter