The Day Abacha Died By Soyombo Ayomikun Posted: Mar, 05 2014, 5:03PM By Soyombo Ayomikun 1. I was in church The Pastor was preaching Nigeria was then on fire You dare not sneeze in public I daily felt that snipers were everywhere Ready to shoot anyone who shrugged at the government 2. Suddenly we heard a scream From just outside our church Abacha is dead, the person yelled Our pastor paused Someone right on the front row jumped up He leapt onto the streets 3. The second member ran out of the church The third followed I saw a mama in one corner Shedding tears of joy Our church service scattered The streets became our chapel 4. We all danced We sang praises Nigeria burst out in tears Tears shed in a rapturous joy As a child I felt freedom I knew terror just died 5. All the bars declared free drinks Palm wine sellers distributed free kegs Markets all over Nigeria scattered Everyone celebrating redemption All because dracula just passed The nation breathed liberty again 6. Relatives called themselves To pass across the rare sweet news We didnt really care what killed him An apple, bullet or woman We began dreaming of sweeter climes We never knew a leader would one day honour terror 7. Nigeria became 100 years A golden list was compiled Of sacrificial hearts that laboured for the country Of martyrs who bled for all Lo and behold We found Terrors name on the list 8. We didnt ask for a list Of the good, the bad, & the ugly We were expecting a roll call Of rare beautiful idols of our land But then our president shocked us again By doing the unthinkable 9. Nigeria knows her heroes We know our warriors Within the Aso villa choose whoever you want to celebrate In our hearts we know those to honour We cant all just forget the miracle we felt On the day Abacha died Soyombo tweets from @alabaster85
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