Fatherhood in Nigeria isn’t easy, not when government thinks all you deserve is a paltry N1000 a day and governors themselves fathers who earn millions legitimately and billions illegitimately don’t think you deserve it or even willing to pay it.
Those fathers whose children have been cut down in their prime through state security apparatchik we collectively ask that you find it in your heart to forgive this nation.
That’s how children are; there are no manuals or best ways to raise them. Our children are looking for danger all the times, while fathers are trying to keep them alive most times. They’ll do something that blows your mind and then they’ll spit all their food out on the carpet. But the sad part is when fathers lack the prerequisite parenting skills.
They ‘may’ be scapegoats but a sizable number of Nigerian political fathers don’t evoke envy of real sorts by their actions, they have sold embarrassment, and made shame look like Italian hand cut and sewn suits.
While, this fathers’ day is just one day that not many care about, hence we are a highly religious people, may the Almighty Allah, bless the work of hardworking fathers, fathers that do not despise on the premise of race, ethnicity, fathers that are not faith bigots, who won’t steal what does not belong to them. Fathers who live and let live, fathers who still find time to tell their kids tales of when Nigeria partially worked. Fathers that remain fathers to their children, fathers that have since departed the scene.
Prince Charles Dickson, development and media practitioner.
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