Straight Talk with Chukwudi Obi

"I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away"                                                                              Al Goldstein   It did not take long before the cough stopped. Some sips of water did the magic. However, it left my eyes blood shot. One of the three men I had earlier seen broke the silence. He said the governor, angry with his cabinet at the embarrassment, sacked key commissioners, all the transition chairmen of Local Government Areas in Abia State. A case of a lazy man quarreling with his tools, I mused. I recalled that the Chief Press Secretary of the governor had in a swift reaction and in defense of his boss said that his paymaster had spent about five billion naira, on road reconstruction alone. In response to this when I had it on the state-owned radio station, I said “you and your government spent five billion in the air, not on roads. How come you spend th

I had slept for more than two hours and had a good bathe. The time was half past five. I decided to visit my friend, Isaac. I knew Isaac through another friend, Sunny and both have proved to be loyal and good friends. Both come from Ogoja in Cross River State but reside in Umuahia, Abia State working. So when I travel to the South East, I ensure that I see them. It was the case here   Twenty minutes later, we were throwing banters, cracking jokes and bringing back old memories. My stomach churned in hunger. I signalled Zik and he suggested that we go to his sister’s place to eat. On our way to the place, I took in the rusted zinc roofs, the single lane roads, the semi huts at the heart of the state capital and a handful of two or three storey buildings. I also took in the chaos and traffic congestions; all these I had seen in the four five years ago. In fact as the tricycle nicknamed kekenapep progressed, I concluded that nothing significant has c