MAN OF THE YEAR 2020
THE COMMON MAN
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"To eats he begs,
To survive the harsh economic realities, he turns his children to hawks
He picks disused, abandoned cloth, otherwise called tokunbo
To get His pension, he protest
For shelter, he sleeps under the bridge
His hopes are mindlessly dashed,
He is deprived of the very basic essentials of living
He lacks portable water
Electricity which he pays heavily for
From the streets, his life became endangered
Armed robbers would attack shoot at him in broad day light
He is at the mercy of fake, adultrated drugs
Poor water are marketed as pure
Unwholesome and unhygenic food items
To compound his woes:
The hospitals are not only inaccessible
They are terrible expensive
Which make him to run to quacks,herbal homes
Or simply engages in self medication
All very dangerous
Because the government has failed to
Cater for his health needs
The common man escaped flood and fire
Disasters, armed robbers, harsh economic realities,
adultrated, fake products, terrorist attacks
stolen political processes, bombings
Makes him, the man on the street
Who is very far from the government
Who the government does not
Think of alleviating his suffering
The man who bears the brunt of
Every government's misdeed,
Misgovernance, deserve the
Award, His resilience, his determination
His survival instincts make him ripe
again,
For the man of the year award
The Original piece was written + edited by me in 2004 !!!
