Dear Senior Opupulepu,
How are you do? I hope you are do fine, just like me and all my brethren and sisthren are do fine.
Senior, are you know that memory verse in the Holy Book which says, educate a pickins the way they should walk, so that when they grow, they will not walk like they are dancing azonto, but walk straight like a bow and arrow professional doing march-past?
Senior, this can be found in the chapter of the Adages, paragraph 22 line 6. And during our time, when we were pikins, the grown-ups, aged and ancient would use this as their source of constitutional right to beat us well, without recourse to explaining why they beat us.
Senior, it always went like this: We got beaten for walking like we have smoked dry grass and got beaten for walking like we were going for Holy Bread during a Katholici praise and worship section. We got beaten for looking away when we meet an adult and got beaten for looking an adult in the face. We got beaten for talking and we got beaten for not talking. We got beaten for first eating meat or fish in our own plate of food before touching the fufu and we got beaten for not touching the meat or fish until we finish the fufu.
Senior, yes, we got beaten for whatever reason those adults, aged and ancients could just dream of. We got beaten for waking up early and we got beaten for waking up late.
Senior, and remember during our time, no adult, aged or ancient was ever wrong. I remember a certain ancient old man who always spied a certain beautiful young daughter of Eve. He wanted to travel Suhum-Nsawam with her before any irresponsible akupadid that first. He started calling, calling and touching, touching this Beauty, but of course the lass had the courage to always ward him off. She wanted to grow to be a Roman Sister.
Senior, one fine morning, this beauty went to fetch water from the stream and had to use her both hands to balance the pot on her head. Suddenly, from thin air appeared Olu Casanova. With the Sweet Baby’s, front and back exposed without any form of defence, since both hands were on peace-keeping making sure that the pot does not doruff, this Olu Man started touching, touching her at territories, he could never be granted visa to visit.
Senior, in anger and in astonishment, our Beauty recalled all her arms and hands from their peacekeeping mission and lo and behold, the pot did its thing, some. It tilted to the geographical location of that Olu Man and water-fall fell all over him., like showers but not showers of blessing.
Senior, this Olu Man will not go home quietly and explain to his wife in a way she will accept, how come he got wet. He went straight to the Council of Elders, of which he was a member, to report the misconduct of Beauty. The lass was summoned quickly and respectful as she is, not like a certain Umbrella Municipal Police who uses court summons as means of training to be a gutter-to-gutter striker, she appeared quickly.
Senior, she was asked why disciplinary action should not be taken against her for bathing an elder in public. She started narrating her part of the story but without finishing, verdict was given. Her way of dressing in the village was attracting irresponsible akupas, who have been going Suhum-Nsawam with her. She screamed, “Hell, No!” She was asked whether she wasVirgin Mary’s, classmates. She was then warned to behave well, well or the village would not contain them and driven away disgracefully. In plain language, she was told she wasthe one at fault, for making Olu do what he did.
Senior, this was how we grew up. But now, times have changed. Pickins of these days, are doing and saying things we could never do or say even in our dreams when sleeping.
Senior, the other daysome small, small girls who stopped wearing diapers onlytwelve moons ago, insulted our whole Omanhene and his mother as if they were reciting nursey rhymes.
Senior and these are children who have just started learning how to bath and brush their teeth and yet words that came from their mouths can be classified and ranked in the class of koobi’s senior brother, momoni.
Senior, one will wonder those who were teaching these young ones the way they should not grow. It was not too long when a certain Olu Man, called Wofa Yaw, fit enough to be a great-grandfather said things about our Omanhene in public in words which should only be said behind closed doors.
Senior, Wofa Yaw, publicly said our Omanhene violates a certain commandment in the Ten Commandments, adding that Nana was of no use to society. Can you imagine?
Senior, such ancient ones like him, are those educating our children how to walk like there are thorn bushes between their thighs, and yet expect them to walk straight and chest out when they grow.
Senior, tell Nana Onsurowuo, to please pardon this reckless Wofa Yaw, for he is a kplamase. I am Dan, sorry I am Done.
It’s me!
