FEEDBACK: Re: Ranti omo eni ti iwo nse

I really appreciate your write-up on the attitude of Yorubas towards their roots. I became so sad when I read that part where you made comparison between President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo on their activities in respect of their roots. It became more annoying when I read that part where you described General  Oladipupo Diya’s relationship with his root. So sad, that the caption “ranti omo eni to iwo se” should be ringing in our  heads wherever we go and whatever we become, Yorubas are mostly the culprit, Igbos and Hausas hardly forget their  roots. May God help us. —Adewale Quadri

I have no tears for Professor Yemi Osinbajo who was shot to the top by circumstances but assumed it was by his own making. In four and a half years in office, his only link was with the elites of his Redeemed Church.  I say “elites” because when an ordinary member of the Church preaching the gospel was hacked to death under his nose in Abuja as Acting  President he kept mum so as to keep his Tradermoni and NEMA rice. Have they not been taken from him now?  When we came under serious assault of Fulani herdsmen, he became a high priest who cannot be touched by our infirmities and travelled to the United States of America to  say our lamentations of the harms being done to us were exaggerations.  My Muri will send no bread to a Gbada who did not dignify me with a tuber of yam. Another one bites the dust. —Ebenezer Oyetunji

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