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YOU SOW A SLICE AND GETS A TUBER

      On a certain day in the year 2010, my father took me to our family farm on his motorcycle. Thank God it was a smooth ride. Immediately we got to the farm, he quickly dug up the earth and brought out several slices of yam. God so good, i had a father who never took things for levity. While i "serve the ridges with the slices" he plant the yam slices into the already prepared ridges. After about an hour we left for home.
      Exactly a month to the day those yam slices were planted, i left for one of the biggest cities to start a new life—a life after high school. Some months later, i received the saddest news of my life. I had to return home for a burial—burial of the man who planted the yams.
After mourning ended, i went back to the farm. I discovered the man who planted the "yam slices" has dug out some "yam tubers" to be eaten—very sure he ate them.
I dug out some tubers too and ate them.
Noticeably, we planted "tiny yam slices" and got "big yam tubers".
       This story is related to everything a man does in the planet—whether good or bad: if you do well, it is like planting a "slice of yam"; in return, you get a "big tuber of goodness". If you perpetrate evil, it is like planting an "evil slice of yam" and when the result shall shall be out, you get a "tuber of evil"
      The main people this story is aimed at are the Nigerian politicos and politicians. Many of these people have planted "yam slices of corruption and evil" and by God's grace and Kamar combined, they are going to get "tubers of evil". Senator Bukola Saraki is an epitome. He did plant "yam slices of corruption" and must be ready to eat the resulted tubers. Saraki should behave like a real man and be ready to eat the tubers of the slices of yam he planted. It is highly adviceable he resign as the senate president. He must be ready to pay for his sins and eat up the tubers so his children and coming generation would not have to eat within.
No corrupt Nigerian politico and politician will go unpunished. It does not matter where they come from: either the north, south, east or west nor the office they hold/held: presidency, governor, parliamentary, Local government chairman or whatever.
       In whatever you lay hands on, you must try all you can to be the good type so you would not have to get "the big-bad tuber" in return.
Thanks.

Kolade Chris

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