Prof Niyi Osundare Raps Criminal Judges And NJC in an illustrative poetry entitled: My Lord, Tell Me Where To Keep Your Bribe.
A lovely piece of poetry that will make your day….
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“My Lord, Tell me Where to Keep your Bribe.
A poem by Prof. Niyi Osundare.
Do I drop it in your venerable chambers
Or carry the heavy booty to your immaculate mansion
Shall I bury it in the capacious water tank
In your well laundered backyardOr will it breathe better in the septic tank
Since money can deodorize the smelliest crimeShall I haul it up the attic
Between the ceiling and your lofty roofOr shall I conjure the walls to open up
And swallow this sudden bounty from your honest labourShall I give a billion to each of your paramours
The black, the light, the Fanta-yellowThey will surely know how to keep the loot
In places too remote for the sniffing dogOr shall I use the particulars
Of your anonymous maidservants and manservantsWith their names on overflowing bank accounts
While they famish like ownerless dogsShall I haul it all to your village
In the valley behind seven mountainsWhere potholes swallow up the hugest jeep
And Penury leaves a scar on every houseMy Lord
It will take the fastest machineMany, many days to count this booty; and lucky bank bosses
May help themselves to a fraction of the lootMy Lord
Tell me where to keep your bribe?My Lord
Tell me where to keep your bribe?The “last hope of the common man”
Has become the last bastion of the criminally richA terrible plague bestrides the land
Besieged by rapacious judges and venal lawyersBehind the antiquated wig
And the slavish gloveThe penguin gown and the obfuscating jargon
Is a rot and riot whose stench is choking the landBehind the rituals and roted rigmaroles
Old antics connive with new tricksBehind the prim-and-proper costumes of masquerades
Corruption stands, naked, in its insolent impunityFor sale to the highest bidder
Interlocutory and perpetual injunctionsOpulent criminals shop for pliant judges
Protect the criminal, enshrine the crimeAnd Election Petition Tribunals
Ah, bless those goldmines and bottomless booties!Scoundrel vote-riggers romp to electoral victory
All hail our buyable Bench and conniving Bar A million dollars in Their Lordship’s bedroom
A million euros in the parlor closetCountless naira beneath the kitchen sink
Our courts are fast running out of Ghana-must-go’s*The “Temple of Justice”
Is broken in every brickThe roof is roundly perforated
By termites of graftMy Lord
Tell me where to keep your bribe?Judges doze in the courtroom
Having spent all night, counting money and various “gifts”And the Chief Justice looks on with tired eyes
As Corruption usurps his gavel. Crime pays in this country
Corruption has its handsome rewardsJust one judgement sold to the richest bidder
Will catapult Judge & Lawyer to the Billionaires’ ClubThe Law, they say, is an ass
Sometimes fast, sometimes slowBut the Law in Nigeria is a vulture
Fat on the cash-and-carry carrion of murdered ConscienceWon gb’ebi f’alare
Won gb’are f’elebi**They kill our trust in the common good
These Monsters of Mammon in their garish gownsUnhappy the land
Where jobbers are judgesWhere Impunity walks the streets
Like a large, invincible DemonCome Sunday, they troop to the church
Friday, they mouth their mantra in pious mosquesBut they pervert Justice all week long
And dig us deeper into the hellish hole
Nigeria is a huge corpse
With milling maggots on its wretched hulkThey prey every day, they prey every night
For the endless decomposition of our common soulMy Most Honourable Lord
Just tell me where to keep your bribe.Large, extremely tough bags used for carrying heavy cash in Nigeria
They declare the innocent guilty
They pronounce the guilty innocent.”
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