NIGERIA NEEDS THE CARNIVAL ACT.

Nigerians have embraced season films as the new sitcom in town. This is not unexpected since those seasons are well scripted, produced and sub-titled. Amongst these seasonal films that had won the hearts of Nigerians are Prison break, Lost and a more recent one ‘Legend of the seeker’. An aficionado of the latter will be familiar with the carnival troupe comprising of the seeker of truth, wizard of the first order, mother confessor and the evil turned good mordsith.

I will like to take every reader that is exposed to this piece on a voyage of imagination. Nigeria, our beloved country is bedeviled with so many ills and evils which we are desperately praying to God to send someone to cleanse and stop. How interesting will it be to have the carnival act fighting to a standstill the problems we are encountering?

Nigeria will really be the better for it if a seeker of truth is named. This seeker of truth will snuff out every evil player in the country. He would fight armed bandits, kidnappers and assassins. With him around, people all over the country will be able to afford a sleep with both eyes firmly shut just like the people of the midlands did in the film.

Imagine a mother confessor in Nigeria. All the celebrated rogues that keep slipping out of the grips of the law and the ones that the long arms of the law have failed to catch up with will be punished in a jiffy. In the movie, the mother confessor bends people to her will (usually to do good) and makes them confess and reveal truthfully things they had done. Imagine having this in Nigeria. All the treasury looters will be confessed and ordered to return the loot to the treasury and pick up a honest work, not the large scale pilfering.

A wizard of the first order? This will be a great acquisition for the country. In the sitcom, the great wizard, Zeddicus Z’ul Zorander was endowed with great powers, wisdom and wits. What he lacked in frame, he made up in analysis. Nigeria will really go far having an old head like that instead of the selfish, greedy and irresponsible oldies that parade themselves as elder states men.

The mordsith! In the sitcom, the mordsith was a fearsome character for many reasons. The agile wielded by them brought unbearable pain to the person holding it not to talk of the person it is used on. I remember vividly the first time the seeker of truth picked up the agile; he dropped it almost immediately because of the painful effect. The mordsith tortured their victims so as to bend them to their will and they also have a reviving power (breath of life) with which they revived recent corpses. With the mordsith in Nigeria, the passage of great people could be prevented and the dead could be given a second lease of life.

Even though, the characters of the film are purely fictional, how I wish they existed. If they did, I would have done all my best possible to bring them into the country. If they could terminate the reign of the diabolical dictator (Darken Rahl) and extinguished the raging fire of the keeper of the underworld by sealing the rift, then, they can cage Nigeria’s monster (CORRUPTION).