While doing some work yesterday, my sister suddenly told me that something happened in Owo, a large community in Ondo State, Nigeria. I quickly picked up my phone to check Twitter because I figured people would be talking about it. As expected, I found “Owo” trending. This is how I found out about the massacre that happened at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State on the afternoon of June 5, 2022.
My sadness knows no bounds. I cannot even find a starting point for my lamentations. One thing I do not know and can’t bring myself to understand is why? Why the killings? Why the oppression?
While thinking some time ago, I concluded that a large population of humans are not meant to be ruled by one person. Rather, we should have tiny communities of people who share the same values. We are meant to operate in packs or prides, not herds. This, I am convinced, is the true nature of human society.
No general rule, law, guideline, or whatever, should be imposed on people who are nothing alike.
However, greed and the thirst to control led people to think that they can take over the lives of those who are just minding their business
Do you know what I think is ridiculous? That a so-called country is declared as such and rules, laws, and guidelines are imposed on completely oblivious people. Take Nigeria, for example. What does the settler in the deep forest know about their now-duty to pay task? This person was born free, grows their own food, makes their own clothes, and exists in content solitude. Yet, one president somewhere is claiming responsibility for him.
We need to restructure humanity. No man or (woman) should ever be the leader of 1 billion people or 200 million people or 50 million people or 2 million people or 10 thousand people or 1000 people. Such wealth of responsibility in the hands of one person can never be duly managed. People will never be heard, acknowledged, seen, or even perceived. People will live all their lives, never been able to reach their full potential because of the restriction that they were born in.
Imagine not being able to travel outside the shores of your country because you do not have a green (or any) coloured document that you cannot get if you do not have money that you cannot get if you do not work that you cannot get if you do not have the experience or fancy skills that are required. Living as we are now becoming a life-long quest of reaching milestones after milestones. Go to school, get a job to earn money, use the money to do what the government wants.
These are 500 words (or more ?)! Talk to you tomorrow!