Edakun. Please can we address Nigerians and their false sense of modesty.
It's just about 7 in the morning and I'm sitting in the keke marwa waiting for other passengers to fill it up. An elderly woman gets in and I move over to the middle to make room for her. She is seated close to the door.
Not soon after, there comes this little boy with his mother to board the vehicle. Going by his looks the lad couldn't have been more than five years old, and you know how boisterous children in that age group can be.
So the little boy makes a miscalculated attempt to cross over the elderly woman's legs to get into the vehicle and he inadvertently steps on her.
She screams at him in Yoruba. Next thing I hear is 'Whack!' His mother slaps him hard across the face and is scolding him for being so careless.
The elderly woman now starts "pleading" with the mother to take it easy on the boy. All I can feel is pity for the now very much subdued youngster and can't help but wonder why an elderly person will make such a big deal out of an act that was obviously borne out of childhood exuberance.
I find it mildly amusing when I see a Nigerian mother who is world famous for panel beating her own children at home, come to the neighbors house to beg her to "take it easy" when she is panel beating her own children.
I could rant off a few more case scenarios but this akara will not eat itself.