No Place Like Home?

There is indeed no place like home!

Home is truly the bestest place to be!

That’s the song our leaders sing to us daily

They have been singing it from the ages past

It has replaced our national anthem and pledge

But wait! Is that not fast turning into propaganda?

An instrument of brainwashing and indoctrination

To becloud our sense of questioning and reasoning

A smokescreen for their failure to develop our country

A ploy our corrupt shameless misfit leaders

Have been using to deceive and swindle us

So as to continue looting the commonwealth

For personal pleasure and aggrandisement

Squandering our resources to reward cronies

Raping our economy so that their wives, concubines

And children are assured of a comfortable life

Surely there is no place like home!

But what if that place has got no

Potable water

Motorable roads

Quality education

Universal healthcare

Free and fair election

Constant power supply

Fundamental human rights

Security of life and property

Good governance and accountability

Decent and affordable accommodation

Respect, tolerance and accommodation

How about if you do not feel at home there?

Then there is a place like home

That place is where all these are

A place where you feel at home

That place is where I call a home

And you should be proud to call it a home too!

Chukwunwikezarramu Okumephuna

November 3, 2009.