Growing up, the word magic was so much associated with fear and apprehension that you wouldn’t want to hear that a magician was coming to town to do a performance. The likes of Professor Hindu and the rest would magically kill someone and ressurect the person three days after during their performances. It was really frightening.
It was after some years that we began to see the science behind the magic when David Copperfield and rest began appearing on TV and later showing the science behind the shows.
Then, the televangelists picked it up and started doing their signs and wonders of healing and miracles. But this time around, it was supported by Scripture so who are you to challenge them?
But Yours Truly will continue to challenge them until any of them defy gravity and suspend in the air like Copperfield did in a live performance.
Our traditional practitioners are also deep in it. They put a pot of water with some herbs and place it on some makeshift fireplace without fire and then they cover the thing as if invoking the powers and before you see, the water and the so called magical herbs is boiling and yet, no vapour coming from the boiling water.
Ibi Ghana we dey!
Today, we have magic in the political space. From 2016, what magical solutions to our haven’t we heard?
We were told that eighty eight hospitals would be built by the end of 2020. By the end of 2020, not one was built. With a lot of plenty excuses then agenda 111 sprang up.
We agitated saaa…..then a few weeks to thumbprinting exercise to choose another set or maintain the political actors in the Republic, a list of agenda 111 hospitals emerges magically. And nobody knows whether they’re actually working or not.
Our mainstream media houses have been boasting of having correspondents across the Republic but not even one has been able to verify the list. Tweeaa!!
Ibi Ghana we dey!!
When our Jonah was swallowed by the whale from our shores and later on emerged in the homeland of Madiba said sometime ago that there was a culture of silence in this Republic, a good number of citizens took a good bashing at him.
And here we are. It’s been exposed that some imported batch of rice being delivered to school is expired. And what happened?
When it was detected, it was sent to the FDA to test it. What happened? Our most esteemed and knowledgeable FDA extends the original expiry date! And the rice re bagged!
So, if the FDA can push forward expiration dates of consumables then we die finish in this Republic of our death.
Shockingly for Yours Truly is the stark silence of the parents whose children are going to consume the rice at their various schools.
Let the students eat it and when they begin to exhibit some sickness and diseases, then parents will magically find their voices and be making noise and threats all over.
Sadly, these noise will be directed at school authorities. Threats of suing them and all. As if it’s the school authorities who cultivated, harvested, imported and distributed the product. Na who cause the wahala?
But the confusing issue is, has the FDA got the mandate to extend expiry dates? Anyway, back a day in our lives and time at school, we ate expired shito and tin fish and we’re still alive. As for the shito, we just scraped the fungus on top and that’s all, you’re good to go.
Ibi Ghana we dey!!
This is not magic! Barely twelve hours after the new interchange was commissioned at the capital, hawkers began setting up their own base of operations and citizens are amazed as if it’s something new. It’s normal in this Republic of our death. For as long as the road and city planners don’t consider the fact that roads are fertile grounds for hawking and so wouldn’t make good space available for mini markets, we shall perpetually be having our brothers and sisters selling along the roads and thereby contributing to traffic congestion and crime.
Ibi Ghana we dey!!!
Please we beg the political actors in the Republic about how they go about spewing sensitive matters in the public domain to cause panic.
You have uncovered a plot to rig the thumbprinting exercise. Good report to the appropriate authorities. Why hold pressers to cause panic?
Anyway, let’s ask ooo….who is the owner of the container in which the guns were found at the port. Surely, there must be owners. Abi?
Ibi Ghana we dey!!!
Have a good Saturday Morning hangover and a weekend of more magic to come.
Kwame Rasta
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