NIGERIA SENATORS FIASCO OF 2018 IN AKAN ESSIEN’S DIALOGUE OF ANGELS

NIGERIA SENATORS FIASCO OF 2018 IN AKAN ESSIEN’S DIALOGUE OF ANGELS

ABSTRACT

This paper seeks to analysis senator fiasco of 2018 using Akan Essien’s dialogue of angels to explore and uncover the problems and corrupt practices by our Nigerian political leaders. Embezzlement of public’s funds has lead to the squabble among senators in the house, the 2018 senators fiasco is not left out, the upper house (legislature)  which supposed to be the law making body turned to be the body that streamer downhill the constitution. Nevertheless, Akan Essien’ Dialogue of Angel provide also ways to get ahead of this trauma. 

Introduction

Literature is a social tool that mirrors out the problem of the society. It also reveals the hidden things of the society to it readers, it help to correct and suggest ways which the political leaders of our country can lead the nation without exploiting the poor masses of their fundamental human rights.

Akan Essien dialogue of Angels is a mirror of Nigeria political struggle and public embezzlement of funds by our political leaders. 2018 was a year  of democratic change in Nigeria senators was unfold to the general public since Nigeria politics is a politic of violence.

The moral decay in our political system has cause a lot of setback to the nation’s economy this has turn many literary writers to focus on the theme of politics and social injustices.

Nigerian politician are satirizes as leaders who embezzle public project funds and use lies and fake stories to cover up their corrupt behavior; this was seen in Nigeria Senate 2018 when a senator by name Dino Malaye was accused for embezzlement of public fund but when he was called for arrest by the D.S.S. for interrogation but he ran and hide in his house for over two weeks and later, was announced to be sick, he was escorted to the hospital by the police but on the way to the hospital, he escaped again from the police. Later on February 2019 the same Dino Malaye that was hunted by the D.S.S. was the one who allowed standing in for the position of a senator in his senatorial district which he won and return back to senate all this he achieve due to the immunity of the office.

In the Akan Essien’ Dialogue of Angels, the writer depicts the nature of live our senators are putting the citizen through.

“After a dinner of soaked garri and groundnuts, I decide to sleep at my verandah, my one room apartment being unbearably hot. This heat period everywhere indoor was hot especially during the night (23).”

In the above extract, Essien portray the living standard of people in Nigeria and the harsh condition that the masses are passing through in our country, he further shows the inability of Nigerian government to give their citizens some base amenities such as electricity that is needed by the masses to live a happy life at the comfort of their own houses.

But the senators and other political leaders are busy enjoying the money which should have been used to savage the pressing needs of the citizens thus:

The angels that I saw ate chicken and their tables were huge bottles of juice orange drinks and bottle water (24).

The above quote shows the high living standard or our politicians in Nigeria who have directly exploited the poor masses that voted for them to go and represent them. They turned to punished.

In the text, Essien satirized our senators who plan to impeach anybody that tries to apposed them or open up their covered secret thus;

But Angel Baboon is it true that the funds you were given to replace the bulbs at St. Chop and Don Quench Park have vanished? Asked Angel Vulture. Don’t mind my detractors; it will not be well with them. Should Angels not hold money? Why should we be heaven conscious all the time? (27).

From the above extract, Nigerian senators are satirizes as leaders who embezzle public project funds and use lies and fake stories to cover up their corrupt behavior.

Summary

Essien lampoon the politics in Nigeria as a game in which God is not involved due to the high level of brutality and corruption by Nigerian politician to gain power and wheel the economic wealth of the nation. Ethnicity and cultural discrimination has finally set in to the political governance of Nigeria and thereby keep the nation in a backward state.

This paper seeks to analysis senator fiasco of 2018 using Akan Essien’s dialogue of angels to explore and uncover the problems and corrupt practices by our Nigerian political leaders, the quest for money and other material things have made our leaders to engage themselves in so many dubious action which has tarnished their image in the society.