BREAKING NEWS: Again, Boko Haram’s slaughter of mathematics in Oyo

Nigeria has become the proverbial forest of the heartless, the Igbó Òdájú. It is where mothers must take extreme care to double-strap their sucklings to their backs. Even when they do, these Òdájú, the heartless, violently yank suckling infants off their mothers’ back. It is difficult to say we have a government. Or a country. Thomas Hobbes must be smiling in his grave now. His famous 1651-propounded theoretical state of the life of nature, wicked as a brute, solitary as oyster, nasty and as short as brevity, has found practical fit in today’s Nigeria. It was Tandi we quarreled with for embarrassing us with the incongruity of his dancing steps. Tandi Tandi, the new dancer, doesn’t even have legs with which to dance.

Since I did a frightening few seconds peep into a viral video of his gruesome slaughter, I have attempted a psychoanalysis of Mathematics teacher, Michael Oyedokun’s last hour on earth. What inner conversations go on when a man is about to take his last breath? Oyedokun was slaughtered by bandits in Oyo State, most likely on Sunday, May 17.

He taught at Community High School, Ahoro-Esinele, in Oriire Local Government. He was one of the teachers and pupils forcibly ferried into the forest by bandits..CONTINUE FULL READING>>>