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| Chief Anayo Nwosu |
Obioma was once told by his
mother that “kindness would kill you one day” but he didn’t understand. He felt
that his mum was detracting him from doing good. Kind of “get behind me you Satan!”
Obioma felt that his mother was being an obstacle to his avowed virtue of
kindness and generosity and he trudged on.
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On one
rainy day, following the flooding of the whole of Lagos, when the Ocean, the
Lagoons and the Canals decided to vomit all the water in their bellies on to
the land to amplify the thunderous releases from the sky, it was then that
various species of fish, amphibians and other rarely seen aquatic animals were
littered by the roadsides as they seemed rattled by the behaviour of the water
bodies that had been their natural habitats. It was cold too and was nearly the
range of temperatures experienced in Jos area of Plateau state.
Why
not? With so much water everywhere and no sunshine, it was bound to be very
cold. This made some Nnewi men in Lagos tell their brothers at home complaining
of cold on phone that "ọtụ karịrị n'Lagos" meaning that "the
cold in Lagos was more". That was when Obioma was walking on the road by
the side of a canal around Gbagada area of Lagos. He saw a curly object whose
state was begging for help and he steadied his gaze on it and could recognize
the animal from his Zoology experience.
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It was
a snake. A cobra. But it looked very emaciated and sagged like the wretched
roppy funnel made from coco yam leaves. Obioma was moved with pity that he
didn’t even think it twice before deciding to take the cobra home. The cobra
was the poisonous type. But all those attributes of its fabled poisonousness
had faded with the sufferings it must have been subjected to by the elements.
Obioma
had watched in Indian films how people nursed snakes and kept them as pets.
"It was all about love for God’s creature", he reasoned. This cobra
was different. It could talk. It made a sound, not a hissing sound immediately
Obioma picked it up from the ground. The cobra said “thank you sir”. Obioma
took the cobra home. He house kept the cobra in a room with a regulated heater
and fed it with sumptuous food and sometimes with day old chicks.
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Within
a month the cobra not only recovered but had grown bigger and stronger. It must
have regained its cobra biological amours. It has also remembered that man
should be his enemy as nature made it. And the only man, the ordained enemy he
could see around was Obioma. Being not a normal cobra, it had reasoned that if
it attacked Obioma and he died that it would lose the new comfort Obioma
provided it.
“How could I start learning how to hunt for food without exposing
myself to hunters, eagles and obu who could prey on me”, the cobra thought hence it
kept delaying displaying expression of its natural instincts to Obioma. There
came a day when Obioma had to travel outside Lagos on emergency and returned
the next day. The cobra starved for just a day and it couldn’t understand that.
It deemed the action of his host and benefactor very wicked despite all its
efforts in restraining itself from attacking him.
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“What an ungrateful man, this Obioma could be!” the cobra wondered as it
pumped its neck and fangs while positioning itself as Obioma opened the door to
feed it. The cobra firstly spewed a dense spit at Obioma’s two eyes to
tranquilize him before biting him in the head and the legs. Mission
accomplished, the cobra immediately escaped into the wild through the Canal
that links Anthony Village to Gbagada in Lagos.
Ọgọmụegbunam
is an Igbo name. It means “may my generosity not kill me”. Many people,
including me, have learnt the hard way. We nearly died. We were so engrossed in
doing what we believed was kindness unto death. It is only the living that
learns the lessons of life. The dead is gone with his or her heroism leaving
the dependants and relatives to grieve unending. Time and time again, good
hearted people fall victims to venomous acquaintances, friends and relatives.
They ignore the very clear signs, and believe that even the devil can change.
That’s dangerous!
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You
can always help anyone remotely without bringing the person home or into your
house or office. Some humans are like needy cobras who cannot help being their
original dangerous selves when their infirmities are healed or their problems
are solved. It is a greater wisdom to be stuck with only those persons you
cannot but accommodate. It is a stupidity of a legendary proportion to harm
your wife, children and all that is dear to you by bringing home a cobra.
You
can help a cobra-like fellow without living with one. After all, you don’t have
to ascertain the level of holiness of the needy before you help. Every needy
person appears victimised or cheated by nature or by someone else whereas many
of them are suffering from their karma or that of their parents or ancestors. It
is good to note that many in need could genuinely need help and could be good
people. Recall that you must have loved yourself first before you love your
neighbour. Remember that the injunction is “to love your neighbour as you love
yourself”.
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Learn
from many doctors presently practicing in Nigeria especially the consultants in
the government hospitals and the hospital owners. They cannot risk contracting
a dangerous but curable COVID-19 in the name of Hippocratic Oath or helping or
caring for the sick.
Do not
look far for the cobra. They could be in your relations, neighbours, customers,
colleagues and many people that know you and see everyday.
By
Chief Anayo Nwosu
Ikenga
Ezenwegbu (Original Onye Nnewi)
anayonwosu@icloud.com
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