KERANMERO; A Poem By Barrister Olasupo Ojo

Driver. Stop.
Park.  Come down.
From where?
What do you carry?

Inspector.
Sir!
From cattle land.
With love and loads.

Loads?
Open
Rear door.
Inspection!

Yes sir.
Hmmm.
Hem hem.
Bad economy.
No cargo.
Empty trailer,
Bad business.
Mass transit,
Stand or hang.
Subsidized fare.
In naija trailer.

Okay.
Roger me.
Copy you.
Open door.

Ah ah.
But I see
as i bend:
human legs,
Cattle hoofs.
Dangling things,
dripping waste.
What do you carry?

Ah ah. Oga.
Take particulars.
Roger there.
Copy me.
Depression in town!
See diversity.
Yes.
See.
KERANMERO

KERAN what!

Inspector.
National transit.
Human and cattle.
Subsidized recession.
Hard country.
Lean pockets.
Bad roads.
Slow trains.
No fuel.
But AK 47!
Avoid loss
In road ambush.
KERANMERO!

KERAN what!!

Precious cattle
Poor humans.
AK 47,
from national barracks
In herders hands
Greets only cattle.
Overlooks human.
For save passage.
Try the mix.
KERANMERO!

Naija trailer.
Human feet,
in cattle waste.
Human food,
Is cattle taste.
Farmers die,
for cattle sake.
Cattle price,
Is better stake.
Cattle meat,
Is human taste.
Shikena!
KERANMERO!

Cattle value,
greater value.
Farmers value,
lesser value.
Gunners value,
higher value.
Govt value,
herder value.
Coffins value,
better value.
Roger value,
Super value

KERANMEROOOOO!

Olasupo Ojo., Is a Lagos based legal practitioner and former president of the Committee For The Defence of Human Right, CDHR