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Ahmed Abbas Tinsu

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Abeokuta: Small City, Big Trouble.

What is happening to my city of resident?

Boys fight, elders fight. No one to guide.

We fight for awards, fight over ladies, fight for a seat that doesn't even get paid, we fight for virtually everything.

It's funny how every day we are always incited against others, we have been suffering from myopia & primitive thinking.

The paths are getting darker. The city is becoming doom and Evil is gradually prevailing.

This is the city where desperation is gradually taking over the youth.

I live in a city where:

Loyalty has entirely another definition; inheriting your boss's enemies is a sign of loyalty.

Our fellow youths in the corridors of power deprive our brothers & take advantage of our sisters.

Music groups/labels see themselves as rivals & enemies instead of brothers in the struggle.

We want to get rich, take girls out, spend on them and live like celebrities yet we don't want to work or hustle legitimately.

Political parties are religiously inclined. It's funny how we are separated along religious lines, where a political party is identified with a particular religion.

Every beauty queen is tagged a prostitute. A lady gets on the map only when she offers bed service.

Religious gatherings are now forums for planning & making evil strategies.

Cultism and fraudulent acts is the new trend & if you don't belong you're considered weakly & outdated.

Prostitution is gradually becoming a daily routine & the intake of codeine is on the increase.

Thuggery, snatching of phones, rape is becoming part of our lives & what we are faced with on daily basis.

I can't even do out with my phone at night for the fear of being attacked and snatched from me

Evil is taking over my city!!! And I can't even help, it seems I am handicap.

Am not a singer, I would have sang for a better JalaCity.

Am not a beauty queen, I would have cat work and use my steps, elegance & eloquence to talk peace.

Am not a preacher I would have preached peace and reinstate the fact that evil has no religion and peace is Paramount for development.

Am not a show organizer I would have organized a peace show and talk about the significance of peace.

Am not a producer, I would have used my beats to and give a sound of peace.

Am not a graphic designer, I would have design peaceful images.

But then, I am a writerr, just somewhere in the city and I'm only an entity but with my keyboard & little but limited influence.

I'm calling for peace, tolerance & unity. Am calling for a better Abeokuta, where unity will prevail.

What are you doing?

What hustle are you doing to legitimately earn something for yourself no matter how little it is?

How are you using your office, position, struggle and hustle to make Abeokuta a better city?

The government can't do everything but as individuals, we can make our city better.

Abk can be better than it is only if we stand up and move from the 'theoretical why' to the practical how'.

Like the young preacher that emerged from Georgia Alabama,

"I have a dream of a better Abk".

A city where I will be proud to say I served my father's land faithfully on.

A city that will be free from thuggery, prostitution, violence, alcoholism, drug addiction, cultism & other social vices.

AbkCity... E go better

Thank you