Arrangee Poem by Adebayo Akande Smartfingers

It’s everywhere;
Tabloids, websites,
TVs and radios, on the air
“NDLEA denies arresting Babasuwe”
Hmm, we’ve heard you
But should we believe you?
Paint a red lie white
A lie remains a lie
The truth is like the sun
You can shut it out,
Still, it’ll pierce your window
Pardon my audacious musings, NDLEA
Because I smell a foul play in your words
A whiff of lie meanders in it!
In what I heard today;
“He sues NDLEA for 15 million”
And perhaps, in what I’ll see tomorrow
“He pardons NDLEA for their unethical conducts”
“For the embarrassment against his human dignity’
Hey! , save me the law’s mumbo-jumbo
Coz, as blind as the bat, so is the law
We are in Nigeria,
Where mystery lives
We folks know the silly trick
of lodging pound of meat in the mouth
and enshroud such from questioning eyes
A man drench in heavy rain
May urinate in his pant
Who’ll know, who’ll ask?