Over 75 years ago, a young man was born to an impoverished and criminal family in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria. His riverine community had, at different times, been in Eastern Nigeria region, later South Eastern, Midwest, Bendel, Rivers, Imo and Delta states.
His father was a local thief, robbing people in their homes in the night to feed his family. On one occasion, as the proverbial one day for the owner, he was caught in his trade. The community, like most communities in those days, executed the thief after due trial. While his father was undergoing trial, this young man and his siblings tried to bribe the village elders to free their father. The elders stuck to the dictates of their tradition and did the needful.
Many years later, this young man got educated in a high profile university and qualified as a medic. He was later to marry his university heartthrob who had qualified from the same university as a lawyer. These two were bright people and progressed in their professions, building a supposedly decent family reputation.
The young man was later charged by the system to administer the fortunes of his people as a governor, while his lovely wife had now progressed to the highest court in the land as a judge.
Then, DNA came calling. He pilfered the resources of his people (like his executed father) to the extent that he garnered enough resources to attempted to become the president of the entire country. This dream was cut short by the president he was to take over from, when it came out that he had pilfered the resources of the state he administered. To avoid the law looking into his activities while he was governor, his madam procured a perpetual injunction stopping every agency in Nigeria from performing their duties.
His madam is known to be the go-to person any time Lady Justice is needed to remove her blindfold. In the current challenge of electoral fraud in Nigeria, she has come out again to maintain the family tradition. She was a keynote speaker at an event organized to discuss issues around the last elections, an event that ought to be seen as subjudice as the verdict is still awaited. At the event she poured encomiums on the representatives of the person whose supposed victory is being challenged by Nigerians.
At over 70 years of age, one would have thought that both man and wife would seek forgiveness from God and Nigerians for the ignominious part they have so far played in the failing enterprise called Nigeria.
By the way, two of their daughters are now judges! Needless to mention they became judges by 'merit'.