Natasha’s sex tool: Who’s next?

By Michael Bush

By Michael Bush

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan would go down as a serial accuser of high profile men.

In future, when her name is mentioned, what will always pop up first -online and offline- is that notorious characterisation.

History will asterisk her name as the woman who cried wolf; sorry, who cried sexual harassment whenever she had political disagreement with a man.

I apologise in advance to Kogi former governor, Yahaya Bello, another Kogi top politician, Senator Dino Melaye and former presidential lieutenant turned global online influencer, Reno Omokri.

I apologise for mentioning those men, all of whom she had targeted at one point or the other, because I think no one deserves to be mentioned in this frivolity.

Plus, an allegation that has not been proved should not have this much airplay, this much nationwide attention. Or, are we this jobless as a people? Isn’t there something wrong with a wife who goes around accusing men of wanting her?

How exactly does this senator present herself that makes it so easy for men to approach her? And, by flaunting this private shame so publicly and so frequently, obviously in a bid to goad the unsuspecting audience into a mob, isn’t she communicating something that should trouble her family and friends?

Secondly, Senator Ireti Kingibe says Natasha’s latest alarm is false because she had never even alluded to anything like it during their female senators hangout. A very good point on which we should all ruminate.

Thirdly, did Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan’s senatorial district send her to Abuja to peddle sexual harassment allegations? Or, does she just enjoy distracting Nigerians?

Someone needs to tell her that this mannerism of hers is not only an unsenatorial comedown, it is also an unbecoming childishness. And, while we are at that: pray, who is her next target?

It is this question that should arouse all of us from sleep-thinking that Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s current aim, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, is on his own.

Nobody, even our worst enemy, should be allowed alone with this woman. Otherwise, there will come a time when there would be nobody left in this turn-by-turn accusation spree.

In fact, I fear that when she’s done with men she shall start picking on prominent women too.

Fortunately, the woman who I think was also being indirectly targeted by the Kogi senator, Her Excellency Mrs. Unoma Akpabio, has had her say. End of discussion.

Furthermore, I had privately appealed for senate leadership to look away, but now I publicly withdraw that appeal and in its place call on the upper house to wedge a sledge hammer. Big people should not cook and a child uses a spoon to stir the food!

Dear United States of America …

That joke with Ukraine is too expensive. You owe the world an apology. Except you are telling us not to overtrust you as we always have. You should never abandon your allies.

What happened in the White House last week is a new low for USA. What message were you even communicating, please? That the United States of America, our own United States of America, no longer cares about global peace and justice; even for your allies? Can the United States go alone, going forward?

Anyhow you want to do it, please get back your pride of place on the global table. Help Ukraine or lose more allies. This is not the United States of America the world knew. Please bring back that United States, even if you can’t!

Understanding limits from signs

The first of three understandings you need here is to understand understanding itself. Second is to understand it as it relates to limits encoded in signs.

Third is to understand limits themselves. It is failure in one or all of these cases that accounts for all the unnecessary conflicts and disappointments as well as avoidable regrets and sicknesses or even deaths recorded all over the world.

Understanding requires so much understanding. That means, understanding is so much work. It is a mind thing. The person who understands understanding has conquered life 85%.

Does such a one exist? A person of love, of empathy, of forgiveness. A person of tremendous empathy, of monumental selflessness, of proven Christlikeness? That is the person the world is shopping for.

The person who understands understanding neither listens to nor takes anti-people tales as the next best thing since ice cream. This person is big even if the lack of money or position or both makes them small in the eyes of the world.

The other person who does not understand understanding and who therefore encourages gossip, slander, etc. is a small mind even if the world think them big. In this class of shame also belongs the person who thinks themselves too smart.

Listen! No matter the matter, understand understanding. No matter what else you acquire or cannot acquire, make sure to acquire understanding and in addition, get to understand it.

This is fundamental if you must go on to live or lead a life of love, of peace, and of no regrets.

The next stratum is to gain an understanding of limits when presented as codes via signs. Know how limits show up (that is, how people communicate them to you without communicating them). Know how limits work. Know how powerful limits are.

The last stage is about what you do with what you know (that is, with the understanding acquired). When you know that you are witnessing what for you are the limits of hateful humiliation, of sickening ingratitude, and of disguised rejection, what choices do you have? Do you -like others- stick around in bitterness, praying and trusting for a miracle, which even God has repeatedly told you won’t happen? If you decide to walk away, as you should, do you have the guts to, and shall you really do so; sans looking back or regretting afterwards?

Now, let’s break it all down. In every plan or relationship or situation, beware of limits which others display through signs. They are ever present, hidden or obvious. Understand that you must always look for them, understand them and understand what they demand.

Take budget, for instance. The fiscal plan can be hampered or limited by the lack of funds, the lack of knowhow, the lack of manpower, the lack of synergy and the lack of time. Understanding and tackling these stumbling blocks early on can be the saving grace. Either that or failure.

In a relationship, a proper reading of a behavioural pattern or body language of a partner can lead to a-nitch-in-time-saves-nine understanding. Most spouses would not have died or got killed in a marriage if they had simply understood and acted according to the limits that courtship threw up as signs. Ditto for a business partner who got duped along the way: the telltale signs had always been there but ignored. We should all learn from these experiences.

Politically, professionally, socially, life always points out limits we should not transcend but who cares about signs? The man or woman you accuse today of being stingy or wicked or both has always been like that but you believed a lie up until recently when you stopped lying to yourself. Nobody is deceitfully selfish or roguish (or both) suddenly: they have always been. It is just that you were not observant enough. Understand signs that people show and decide the limits of tolerance you cannot cross.

A man or woman you worked for who could not pay you 20,000 at the beginning is not going to pay you 20 million at the end. Well, miracles happen every day but. The signs are there from the beginning for a child who shall grow into a big ‘un. It is not such that their parents have to first fast and pray.

That is exactly the point I have been labouring to make, hitherto. Beware of any man or woman or child who makes you fast and pray too much for God to touch their heart to honour basic obligations. Had you been less emotional and more sensitive, when the person concerned was letting signs (of who they really are) fly all about, you would have saved yourself all the time wasted, all the money lost and of course, all the hope squandered. Pay attention -even if you can’t- to signs shown by people you relate or work with via their behavioural patterns and lifestyle, because they may indirectly be teaching you limits you should not go beyond in believing or trusting them.

Finally, understand that signs are either symptoms of an underlying evil or good omens that it shall end well. Never forget that. Signs are hints of something else. Leave the signs and focus on that other something: that is the key to a surefooted life.

God bless Nigeria!

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