Random musings..

My attention was drawn some minutes ago on the TV, to a news item I find disturbing as well as funny. A young man, Curtis Jones, aged 29, was being released from prison after serving his full jail-term of about 18 years. What caught my attention was, he was convicted at age 12, making him the youngest ever being sentenced to jail in the US. I then stopped to ask myself. What sort of crime would a child (a minor) commit that would warrant his being sentenced to jail because for all I cared, he was supposed to be young, innocent and naive -knowing only what was required for his age. Child killings, bizzare crimes and everything associated to these two have become a growing trend in the Western world and I find the issue at hand not only worrisome, I find it outrightly disgusting!!! In the case of Jones, he was charged with the murder of his step-mother and some other relative I didn't care to take note of and the justification given was that "he suffered sexual abuses from these relatives of his causing him to pull the trigger on the both of them". Hmmmm. The thing tire me shaa. If he suffered sexual abuses, why didn't he report to the appropriate authorities?? Was killing in a gruesome manner the only option??. I even wonder where they get the guns and weapons they use to perpetrate such crimes. Now, this is just a tiny part of the grouse I have with this 'oyinbo' people.
What really tears my heart into shreds is that after these 'yeye' children do all these things, the older folks give a thousand and one reasons to justify it. This is when terms like depression, mental disorders, brain malfunctions etc come in to play and instead of dealing with the issue at hand, they recommend them for endless and meaningless therapeutic sessions, meetings with psychologists, doctors, or take them to rehab homes for their 'crase' to be cured. It's only in oyinbo country that one would hear of sicknesses and diseases that are non-existent, well maybe because in this part of the world where I come from such things don't exist and we never get to hear of silly stories like that. If I'm to treat this issue with levity, I'll simply say oyinbo children are foolish!! If not how does one explain the fact that when watching some TV shows that involve violence it would clearly be spelt out "DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!". Who doesn't know that taking poisonous substances can cause harm, pulling the trigger can kill or stabbing someone with a knife can kill too, but NO, they simply want to try out every stupid trick they see on TV.
Even though Africa is being regarded as relatively backward compared to other continents of the world, under-developed, etc I still take pride in being African because if not anything our morals, values and cultures are being held intact and inculcated into the young ones. You wouldn't find a young child here exchanging words with his parents - except say better back-hand slap don dey hungry am or a child locking himself up in a room for days claiming depression or brain malfunction. Here, na hunger go chase you comot or cure that crase and even when you eventually come out, the buttocks-lashing you'd receive would be one that wouldn't be forgotten in a hurry. It annoys me to think that parents can't take adequate responsibility of their children and the children themselves are groomed to be STUPID from the outset. Sometimes I just can't help but thank God for placing me where I am oh if not maybe by now, my 5yr old sister for don carry gun shoot me or take knife stab me finish.... In all, nothing concern me shaa -only stating the obvious.
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