Written by Dr Yemisi Aderogba
Contemporary Nigeria is a very
interesting place where almost anything absurd and destructive finds
patronage among a large population of its leaders. Not long ago, the
world woke-up to the news of a suicide-bomb attempt by one of the sons
of a privileged Nigerian onboard an American airline flying to the
United States from Europe. The aircraft was loaded with innocent
travellers and the suspected attempt of the bomber was to explode the
aircraft and its content to pieces, tens of thousands of feet above the
ground! The suspected bomber’s name is Farouk Abdul-Muttallab, son of
a strikingly wealthy and very influential Nigerian, Alhaji
Abdul-Muttallab. Sequel to the internationally publicized arrest of his
son, Alhaji Abdul-Muttallab caused right-thinking members of the
international community to wonder wide and deep about his headship of
his family based on his rather curious revelation that he had previously
reported his son to the US embassy in Nigeria when he began to suspect
that Farouk may have been receiving extremist Islamic lessons from
strange quarters. Alhaji Abdul-Muttallab’s seemingly bold action
received a barrage of questions and criticisms from different circles
across Nigeria and across the world beyond the country’s shores.
Like
Alhaji Abdul-Muttallab, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode is a privileged Nigerian
which many Nigerians look-up to. Also like Alhaji Muttallab, Mr
Fani-Kayode, a former Nigeria Minister of Aviation, is a father. But
unlike Alhaji Abdul-Muttallab, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode is a prominent
Nigerian who apparently finds personal relish in practicing a life-style
that most people of privilege and honour avoid and condemn!
Anyone
who is very conversant with one of the most popular new media of this
era known as Facebook would have noticed Femi Fani-Kayode’s loquacious
and jejune political discussions on the medium which tend to reflect how
poorly groomed he is. Femi is the son of the late Deputy Premier of the
old Western region of Nigeria, Chief Remi Fani-Kayode. He attended some
of the most prestigious schools in the world such as Cambridge
University but has the whitish tissues of his commonsense soiled with
the stinking mud of immorality!
Very recently, I was going to
get my usual news update on Facebook when I stumbled on a thread with a
collection of pictures that had Femi Fani-Kayode’s stamped on them.
Picture updating is an interesting part of the Facebook experience. One
is, on a daily basis, treated to thousands of pictures ranging from
important images of human development to those of the follies of some
wannabes. On this day, my curiosity hurriedly led me to view what images
Femi had on the pack for “friends” on Facebook.
I initially
wondered how a former Minister and a governorship candidate in Nigeria
was able to find time to upload a long ‘reel’ of images ranging from
pictures of his great-grand mother to those of his many relatives on the
highly engaging and time-consuming Facebook platform. Soon after some
clicks and scrolls, I met a shocker on reaching the part where his
‘innocent’ daughters were loaded. Their careless and irrational father
personally uploaded explicit images of their bodies! Such
irresponsibility from a Nigerian Minister! I paused at a point for a few
seconds to imagine what could possibly have been going through Femi’s
mind as he uploaded the near-lurid images of his children; young girls
at that, for the whole world to see!
Femi Fani-Kayode may have
felt proud of exhibiting his daughters as beauty icons on Facebook,
indirectly revealing what he spent a significant chunk of his loot on,
cash stolen during his reign in former President Obasanjo’s kleptomaniac
administration. Sadly, vindictive and crooked Obasanjo in his
insensitive prevalence as Nigeria’s Number One Citizen thought it wise
to foist a former drug-addict on more than 120 million Nigerians and the
outcome of that crazy decision is the personal exhibition of his
daughters’ Unclothedness on Facebook! Well, Femi is one privileged
Nigerian who is seldom off the fetid grounds of disrepute. As an
attack-dog of the Obasanjo administration which he initially served as
spokesperson, he was known to have rained torrents of insults on many
respectable Nigerians, a list which includes world-renowned Nobel
Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka. Not even elder statesman, Pa Peter
Enahoro, was spared by flippant Femi! Mr Fani-Kayode routinely poured
bile on the achievements of these noblemen in consonance with the brief
of his dirty job as given by wayward Obasanjo.
Many Nigerians
were taken aback by looseness of his tongue and were encouraged to
conclude Femi was just being himself, him being a poorly raised child
that is completely bereft of decency. To those Nigerians who considered
Femi in contrary light, his latest rubbish should be enough to make them
review their position on his kind of person. Femi has simply proven
once again that he has no sense of decency. It is such a shame that,
perhaps, only in Nigeria you will see a man that cannot run a family
effectively being offered a position in the Federal Executive Council;
it is no surprise that characters like Femi still abound in the affairs
of our nation.
Dr Yemisi Aderogba, Conventry, UK
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