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OPINION

By Ofio ‘Lojuayegbe

For MCee to do his job properly, he must be given access to the millions collected on a daily by the ‘Owo mi da’ boys, and the tithes accruing from these millions will be put to good use by the Godfather in Bodyllon and the rookie in Halawusa, as both of them need some Change to fund their campaigns…

In October 2020, about seventeen months after he became the Governor, a major crisis of humongous proportions erupted in his State which became the rookie governor’s first baptism of fire. To say he was befuddled, overwhelmed and flabbergasted would be using milder adjectives to qualify the state of mind of the governor in this period of State induced crisis.

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Police brutality was as old as the institution itself but the notorious outfit known as SARS took it to another devilish level. These Men in Black have always been the black sheep of the Nigerian family, and government after government have always, it seems, left them to their devices.

The Ehn-Pee-Ef became home for all sorts of degenerates, gangsters, fraudsters, enablers of looters and state-sponsored assassins. They became so emboldened that some of them go to work with POS machines to collect tolls from Yahoo boys and other innocent Nigerians; browbeaten blackmailed, brutalized, and intimidated into relinquishing their cash and other personal belongings to these fiendish villains. Bullets that are supposed to remain in their cartridges become stray and found their ways into the skulls or guts of Nigerians, extra-judicial style. The youths felt they’ve had enough, they planned, they organized, they mobilized, they demonstrated, and they sang to End SARS.

The State that prides itself as the fifth largest economy in Africa became the leading theatre for their demonstrations where on a daily basis for almost two weeks they locked down the city from all nooks and crannies to vent their anger and frustrations. Two weeks seem like two centuries for the MCee and his boys who possibly generate one of the largest IGRs for any State-backed non-state actors in Nigeria. Their daily toll from commuters was seriously threatened and the accruing tithes to their godfathers in political corridors might suddenly seize. From every scenario the optics are bad, and the powers behind Shanwo’s throne needed their rookie to act.

Bodyllon, Halawusa, and Hoshodi in that short order, many experts reckon, became the war room and the obvious strategy was to infiltrate the End SARS protesters and cause mayhem from within. So unleashing non-state actors to kill and maim the peacefully protesting youths was the first script. These goons were ferried in BRT buses to their different catchment areas with instructions on how the script should be executed. The conflagration of the conflict by the ‘Owo Mi Da’ boys, enabled by State actors, blew up in the faces of their paymasters and the rookie panicked and made that unfortunate call to Bonny Camp. Abuja gleefully authorised the unleashing of zombies to Ozumba, apologies to Fela, to finish the unfortunate job MCee’s boys started.

A year and some months after the anniversary of one of the most brutal massacres ever recorded in Lasgidi, Pa Lai may conclude that I am lying but I have faith in See-Ehn-Ehn reports, on how a government killed and maimed it’s own unarmed youths in the guise of quashing a protest; MCee’s empire became threatened by virtue of the suspension given to him by his Union Oga at the top in Abuja.

This time around Bodyllon and Halawusa must save him from this imminent sack from a job that have seen him build or acquire mansions, in choicest areas of the city, fleet of exotic cars, and basking in the midst of beautiful women like the host of a beauty pageant. Lailai, I can’t let this good life slip! So Shanwo must return the favour and hand over to him the keys of motor parks and garages, where he generates the shapeless amount of largely undocumented IGR for himself, his goons and his godfathers.

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When the news broke that indeed MCee has been granted his wish of running public motorparks and garages after denouncing his national union and his bosses in Abuja, a popular radio show host, Uncle Jee-mee almost suffered a meltdown on air. State capture is not a new thing as we see signs and evidences of the fact that some individuals or entities are indeed above the law and are laws unto themselves. When a man that has flagrantly broken a traffic law asks law enforcers the rhetorical question “Do you know who I am”, he is basically telling them, he could be bluffing though, that I am above the law and your bosses will not agree to your impudence to a VIP like me. Although many may like to argue that MCee is a roughneck, but this roughneck is bam baming and chilling with the big boys, Goya Menor, permit me the cuppyrite.

MCee’s boys are tested and trusted voting machines and hijackers of votes. When they can’t vote multiple times due to improvements in the technology deployed by high-neck, they are distributed to various catchment areas to snatch the ballots, and by extension the votes of those voters who largely ventilate on Twitter and other social media platforms. This is where MCee is key to Shanwo’s 4 + 4 ambition. For MCee to do his job properly, he must be given access to the millions collected on a daily by the ‘Owo mi da’ boys, and the tithes accruing from these millions will be put to good use by the Godfather in Bodyllon and the rookie in Halawusa, as both of them need some Change to fund their campaigns.

To ensure that both Bodyllon and Halawusa are not shortchanged by MCee who is reckoned to be street smart, Shanwo remembered another End SARS hatchet man who recently exited the Ehn-Pee-Ef. Mosu was rewarded with the juicy job of nosing around what MC is collecting from the motor parks and garages and streets. He was given a chair to sidon look and report back to the fathers in Bodyllon and Halawusa who are his money gods.

In climes where laws are above men, it is very doubtful if Shanwo’s 4 + 4 ambition would fly going by his involvement with the massacre at Ozoomba. But hey, men are above laws here and this dude might just arrive at eight next year May. Are the youths battle fatigue or disillusioned and have already given up on their State and Country? Perhaps what they will do or won’t do with their PVC next year will be a judge of that. For now they should remember that there is no time to check time, no time to sleep or slumber.

While politicians are strategizing with goons on how to rig their way back into power; I have one advice and one advice only for those who want to keep the memories of patriots lost during the brutal shelling at Ozoomba alive, fight for your future, use your voice and vote to end the reign of these Vagabonds in Power.

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