LETTER TO GRANDPA IGBO-IMABANA.
My dearest Grandpa Igbo-Imabana,
I am so happy to write you for the very first time. Circumstances had lay this burden in my heart and I hope this letter meets you well. I Know you're aged and expecting the fruit of your labours. Don't worry, you'll get to enjoy it after reading my letter.
I know you may be wondering why I chosed to write you a letter rather than the conventional "secret prayer" I had always engaged on your behalf.
Well, I just realized the prayers have been working yet you choose to be a member of sustainable development and progress disorganizing committee. The last time I checked, your six siblings were united as the bee, it was few years after you gave the best representation via politics and the traditional institution that you thought you were grown and needed advice no more. You started by giving way for umbrella, broom, chicken and "papa-mama-pikin" to tear you apart. NOW WHERE ARE YOU? I thought after receiving the best advice from strange tongues the inner voice won't be relevant, well it is not!
As I write you this letter, I am deeply pained, I trusted you to be the grandpa we can always run and look back to for advice.
Now that your compound is expanding and you no longer use Eyeh bi'akoli for farming activities, what should be the fate of my unborn grandchildren? I thought, since you lack enough farming space, you'll invest wisely in this game and use it to change the narrative of those who think you can't survive. But to my utmost surprise, you have chosen to satisfy your stomach with food from the master's table rather than fighting to be one of the masters.
I wonder if it has not dawned on you that your cousins whom you started this race alongside with, are performing more better as though they enrolled for extra-umbrella, extra-chicken and even extra-broom classes.
Don't you want to be like them and save me the shame?
Your cousins are living beings like you, they fight and resolve. They go as far as keeping umbrella,broom and chicken aside to pursue any course that'll be beneficial to them all. How many times have you done this?
Well, this is my first letter to you. The way you handle, deliberate and reply to this, will give me the courage to write you again.
Don't forget, all our eggs is inside the basket and we don't have another compound.
If you treat this letter well, I promise to keep my head high.
I am hoping to see you embrace 2023 with a different mindset.
Let your YES be for your SIX siblings!
Let your hatred be buried, keep umbrella,broom and chicken aside to pursue the interest of our family.
At this point, I will have to stop here. Hoping to write you again soonest.
Your grandson,
Emmanuel Richard.
Abuja Branch.
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