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Pleonasm is a very
grievous sin to be committed by someone who wants to be more economical
with his words, if not , one could have comb through the deaf and dumb
but words-rich Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary and choose from it
words and phrases that will best paint the picture of the writer’s
intent and rationale behind coming out with an article of this nature
when many helpless and confused citizens are roaming our streets in
searc h of food and hope amidst the rising cost in the prices of staples
like Gari.
To begin with, desire,
temptation and emotions like uncontrolled oceans spread rapidly, widely
and wildly to occupy our minds and blanket our hearts dictating our
actions or inactions, sometimes temporarily, sometimes permanent!
Life is full of
challenges and struggles, but no animal or creature on earth is being
more challenged by nature than the intelligent-thinking mammal- human
being. These naked and bare challenges and struggles manifest themselves
even in the elemental or rather microscopic form. The human body defense
system (immune system) armed with disease destroying or at best disease
neutralizing cells is constantly at work or rather at war, fighting to
keep the thinking man alive and healthy. Likewise, the balloon-like
heart is indefatigably pumping blood into the nerves and veins so as to
maintain normality in the blood flow, hence restraining foreign agents
from exploiting the unlikely cease in normal flow. But despite all this
potency man cannot escape being drowned by women’s erotic maneuverings.
Having said this,
today in the name of freedom, civilization and hard-earned maturity
coupled with JAMB-UME-DE license to fecklessly tip-toe and cat walk on
the theories and stories-spoiled soils of our news-making higher
institutions of learning, many nudists, caparisoned teenagers and sex
mongers are perpetrating heinous crimes that never cease to daunt our
image and incur damage on the already degenerating moral fiber of our
society.
It wouldn’t amount to
shear exaggeration if one uses the term or rather the phrase
“brutally sexually appealing” to describe the delib erate manner in
which these so-called new generation university angels dressed
themselves on and off campus. The devil the wise amongst us said is in
the details. It is worth noting here that there are those students who
shamelessly dressed themselves up in a show girl or rather stripper
manner both in broad day light and in the night and there are those who
play humble in broad day light but fumbles in male student’s hostels in
the night. Same people are seen today roaming our streets mind
controlling and dragging many to the forefront of pleasing their sexual
carvings.
Exotic outfits are
very pleasing to the normal eye, and once somethin g pleases the eyes
it’ll definitely please the mind and once the mind is pleased exotically
or worst erotically, an uncontrollable desire-deriving lust chain
reaction will be triggered and like bush fire it’ll spread and burn the
rest of the body’s temptations resisting mechanisms, thereby leaving her
subjects with no any other option than to see to it willy-nilly that his
or her desires be satisfied (little wonder the rise in rape and
pedophilic crimes). Only the most spiritually balanced ones can survive
these challenges and ever pressing temptations. So help us God.
In conclusion and to
put it in plain English, the root cause of this problem are our parents
who blindly embrace s any alien culture that presents itself to them and
who were taken away from their parental responsibilities by the urge to
attain swift material prosperity. And unless due attention is given to
proper rearing of our children, what we are witnessing today in the form
of incessant rapes, unexplained sexually transmitted diseases and
unspeakable adulterous adventures will be a prelude to a more erotic
explosion that will possibly wash away our collective moralities and
security the Tsunami way.
Salisu Ahmed Koki
Kano-Nigeria
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