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YES, ALL MEN WILL DIE (In memory of my late ‘sweet’ mum) When my mother died, people said, ‘…your mother has gone to fight for you…’ I heard much of this amid tears. Today, I still hear the voices reverberating. I believe! While the remains of my mother was being lowered into the grave and everybody (family members) had moved closer to the tomb,   I remained on my seat right at the front where they made for the family members. I was not still shouting down heaven and asking God “why?” I was just there, like a doll placed on that plastic chair. I did not move or speak, until two people held my hands and said something almost in a whisper, “bia ka iwunyere mama aja.” Reality had dawned. Mama was already in the grave. It was time to pay my last respect. It is traditional. A man scooped deep-brown sand with the shovel and handed to me. “Ngwa…,” he said. With my hands shaky, I let the sand drop on mama’s coffin three times before tears clouded my face, and again those two hand

I read Babs Ajayi’s article– “The Grabby lives of the Jonathans: Lesson from Cherrie Blair.” Babs wrote all the way from Quebec, Canada. Ideas have a multiplicity function. Bab’s idea of the article came (according to him) after he read Mrs. Cherrie Blair’s autobiography, and mine came from reading his revealing article. Our goal is the same: to raise our voices, crying, screaming, perhaps the Jonathans would hear and learn. Babs Ajayi’s article was a window into the life of former British First Lady as revealed in her autobiography “Speaking for Myself.” He talked about how things were and is done in the seat of power in UK. He also recommended the book for the Jonathans. But I am concerned about the place of Mrs. Dame Patience in President Jonathan’s administration. I hope she read Mr. Bab’s article too. Because she would be, am sure, unnecessarily too busy to read Cherrie Blair’s book. Seeing Mrs. Jonathan’s assumed position in her husband’s government inspires myriad ques