Questions on my mind

Apart from the single fact that we are all human, should have human feelings, and all that, is there another reason why we should feel sympathy or even empathy for our wicked, callous, ruthless, soulless, and uncaring misrulers in Africa?

Should we be grieved when those who did not only stole our yesterday, continue to steal our today, and with plans to steal our future, fall ill and have to be rushed to hospitals in foreign lands?

Is there a reason why, apart from Egypt and South Africa, no other African nation has the sense to build the facilities to cater for the health of its sick leaders?

Should our misrulers not be ashamed when they are evacuated abroad to be treated in modern hospitals they neglected to build at home?

Who do we think that one human life is worth more than those of other people?

If we do not shed tears when we see the decrepit state of the slaughter houses we call hospitals, why should we become teary when our leaders are rushed abroad to foreign hospitals?

Why do we not show concern when our women in labour are rushed to hospitals on Okada (Boda Boda to our people in East Africa), but are suddenly emotional when we read that a sick leader has gone abroad for medical treatment?

Why are our sympathetic arouse only when we see our misrulers suffering from same wretched conditions they have imposed on the rest of us?

If only we have not lost our ways and lost the ethos our ancestors bequeathed to us, we will remember the Yoruba admonitions (variations must exist in other African languages):

1. Ile aiye, ile asan / Every thing in the world is vanity.
2. Ile aiye, afowoba fi sile / With nothing we came, with nothing we leave.

©️ Fẹ̀mi Akọmọlàfẹ́

February 16, 2021