The word
honorable as defined in the oxford dictionary is some-one worth’’ deserving
respect and admiration, showing high moral standards, allowing to keep their
good names and high moral standards. Borrowing from such, one is tempted to say
that the underlined indeed, can be in an opposite terms in the attitudes of
some of our honorable legislators, given their various action and inactions that some
individuals have experienced in the course of having one means of engagement
with there constituents especially if it’s boiled down with having engaging in one transactions or the other with them.
As experiences
of lives perception and reality has
displayed in one fact, that you cannot know someone’s true character until such
individual is given a position that attract wealth, affluence and riches, not
until that, such individual is, in- actual sense, borrowing from others behavior. Whether or not this
perception comes with reality, personal encounter on this can be adjudged to be
a true reflection of all in narrative, since the writer is indeed the one in the
melodrama of all that transpired.
The
happenings and conjectures illuminates in totality the encounter of that
thrilling engagement in definite terms with such vivid perception, given an
account of what was indeed more
terrifying, it would be sweet to illustrate such with the understanding of an
unfortunate experience that comes with
its realities. That is expected. My viewers may start to wonder what are those
factors and experiences with-which one can use as a criteria in juxtaposing the
point that is about to raise the unfolding agenda of how dis-honorable this
federal legislature could be. Expectedly, an encounter with such personality gives
me more justification about how scurrilous some individuals could turn out to
be, wearing the status of an honorable as the ‘’basis for sharing more light in
my predicaments, as it were’’.
There is a lessen here for us all who often revel in
naked display of implacable hostility and sometimes hatred for the human agent
of the objects of tyranny; from where
the boundary between the constituents and its
representatives are found, and
are tailored with nihilistic character that is blurred and collapsible; in the
courts of populism through the rough and ready handle of demonization
of fellow mankind that raises commotion
at the sight of the speck in the other man’s eye heedless of log sticking from
their own eye balls. A preferred thriving illustration our faces of culture and
hypocrisy in Nigeria.
There is a
Yoruba adage that depicts the plight of people in this circumstance as
prioritizing the treatment of a guinea worm over the far worst condition of leprosy.
The issues specific here, is about taking a man for a horse ride’’ being an
honorable, in some thing that gave him an edge, not knowing that such position
remains a status that is temporary and unfortunately, is unmindful of the fact
that there shall come a time that ends him as an individual who can occupy such
position constitutionally or through the popularity votes of the his people.
Even with that, there can be some unwarranted
display of strange character in such
circumstances’’ in the context of corruption in Nigeria; where billions are
literarily and routinely lifted from the public tills, this violation would
probably rank as a normal issue yet,
it is those factors that clout must of
our representatives, more especially having being elected, and taste what many
constituents is unable to have a fill of, strangely, they become unsolicited
saints, make them self’s like they have never been part of that constituency and
environment before, isn’t that pathetic? This behaviors hack to yet another
cynical Yoruba adage that says ‘’ the thief is the one who has being
apprehended, thieves not yet caught remains innocent just because it manage to elude ‘’being
caught’’ thus far. To be screened and get certified as free of HIV is
definitely a better medical status than suspected carriers who are yet to under
go verification.
The blessing of this unfortunate scenario is that
the constituents are the one who usually troop out in time of voting and the
zeal usually is in the fact of the promises made to them. Therefore, doing so,
they the constituent would play there part, and when the time to reciprocate is
ripe for the honorable to fulfill its own side of promises, it then becomes a
brick wall that becomes difficult all-of –a sudden. ‘What I found most
unacceptable is the scurrilous attempt on my integrity as a reporter, when an
encounter is thrown open with a certain federal legislator in a phone
conversation. Hear him’’ hello segun, how are things? Ha, honorable, I’m fine
sir. Segun, the reported story that you covered on constitutional memorandum in
my constituency, I saw it, very balanced, I liked it. Thanks honorable, that
was part of my job, you know sir. ‘’Yes’’, segun, would be coming to Lagos
penultimate Friday, would appreciate that we meet, have some thing I want you
to do for me, please. Okay sir, Endeavour to call me as soon as you are back in
Lagos sir. It’s alright, regards. Thank you your honor. That was how we ended the
initials of our conversation that opens up how the melodrama started.
There after, was
keenly interested in what this ‘’honorable was having on mind that he wanted me
to be of assistance. Already there were several putative in me, waiting
impatiently to be born in the psychological labour room, to birth fresh thing
of admiration, showing high moral standard in it. The contention then and, more
so, now is that being a federal legislator, with honorable status expectedly,
there was this premonition that such individual should have a moral standard,
respect and admiration in his ‘’word’’ and doings. What displayed in my
instinct at first is that, there shouldn’t be any reason what-so-ever, in
doubting his directives’’ and now, after all said and done, all assignment given,
is being delivered without any form of payment from the origin, there after his
disposition changed in time when it was ripe to get my reward of what I have labored
for, where his mannerism of talking when ever a call is put through to his
phone becomes astonishing. How dis-honorable could this individual be? Isn’t
that astonishing? Yes, indeed my ardent viewers would say. Now that all he
wanted is done and delivered without paying any dime? What this federal legislator seems not to understand
is that we choose to respect that office that is accorded with the status of
honorable and not the ‘’individual’’. A day before his arrival date, he called
and told me to meet with him in his constituency office the next day. I did in
affirmative. He said what I wanted you to do for me is to bring up a
comprehensive profile about my life, politics and future carrier. Now, I was
able to satisfy my curiosity, since the intention was clear as to what is
expected of me to do.
We agreed with price, eventually, did all that is
expected of me and it was submitted to his representative as directed with high
expectation. From then up ward, the
honorable had since displayed an individual with out self-introspection, ill
character that is ill-evaluated which determines how dis-honorable some
individuals could be.’’ Nigerian cries aloud everyday on sundry ill about
people of this character and nothing changed. Therefore seeking to play the
prosecutor, the judge and the jury is the attribute of culture of progress in
all happenings there after, and still unfolding. The mere fact that such
individual sees himself as an honorable is a passport to impunity and that
nothing else could befall such person. This should change in the characters of
some of our representatives with such perceptions. Indeed, that is the only way
the word honorable can best suits some of us who are truly honorable with
respect and admiration and not other wise
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