The invisible sticker
By Maikasuwa Mukaila
Akaramuda was living a life of affluence, he had fleet of cars, houses in choice locations and a University of Harvard trained beautiful woman as wife.
The date was 27th August, 1805 and Akaramuda was to celebrate two scores the following day. While rushing home, he met a middle aged man on the road, he did everything he was required to do to get the man off the road to no avail. In anger, Akaramuda rammed his car through and hit the man in the process. He wanted to run away but the Road safety officers few kilometres away apprehended and detained him. Akaramuda was to discover that there was a sticker hanging in front of his victim with a very bold inscription that read " Deaf and dumb ". Akaramuda was detained in a police cell and could not celebrate his 40th birthday with his family as planned. His wife thought he had gone to spend the night with another woman who probably weighed bigger in his heart, she packed out of his house and that was how Akaramuda lost some of the precious things he had worked for in life. If the sticker was visible to Akaramuda, he would probably have acted differently. He lived a life of regret till he died a decade later in the year 1815.
Last night I saw a Facebook post by a supposedly matured man who was pouring all sort of diatribes on the person of Barr Natasha Hadiza Akpoti. My mind immediately snapped up the story of Akaramuda and the man with the invisible sticker. Not every post deserves a response. I quickly reminded myself that the person who made the post might be hanging a sticker that reads " I am sick and brainless "
As much as I disagree with some of the policies of Gov Yahaya Bello, I can never insult him as doing that would mean that I am sick and brainless. Nothing lasts forever, even life itself is ephemeral. Let's be conscious of our actions today because they have huge implications when tomorrow comes knocking.
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