One cannot tell what to expect from
this world anymore. A learned man once said “the corruption of the best is the
worst.” The world is gradually loosing
its value and its inhabitants have become senseless and some, cowards.
One would expect that our traditional rulers,
since the political leaders have failed us, should uphold moral living and make
sacred “what ought to be” , leading by example.
All hope is lost! The news we get everyday in this country are
enough for one to wonder “what evil can one commit again that could be worse
than this?” Well, HERE IT IS!
The monarchical head of the entire
Uzairue, made up of 14 communities, HRH. Oba Kadiri Imonikhe Omogbai IV, has reportedly taken in his own blood, who’s her
cousin, to be his wife. His reason being
that the girl, Jemilat by name “is too beautiful” so he wouldn’t let any man take her in. And I
dare to ask; where are the values? Where are the morals? Reports state that
there are other illicit activities the Uzairue Monarch indulges in among which
are drunkenness, womanizing, gambling e.t.c.
The marriage rites were performed
quite secretly last year. So it is
presumed that many never got to know of this evil, except those of the
environs. Virtually everyone in this country is morally corrupt. It is not a
fallacy of hasten generalization to say so.
With corrupt practices like this in
this country, one would tend to ask “
who is supposed to teach these morals at the lowest level?” Even some
traditional rulers are so power drunk that they do not care what’s right or
wrong anymore.
Sometime ago, Oba Ewuare II, the famous Oba of the ancient city
of Benin, whom one expects to be a paradigm of morals for others to copy, took
in two sisters, with same father and mother, and because of his monarchical
status, the world saw it as “his business.”
Even the truth has gone into extinction, it no longer exist in our
motherland. Everything has become a NORM
in this country, no one finds fault in wrongdoings anymore, everything seems to
be right.
Does this seem right for a
Traditional high figure?
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