Confusion, frustration and exhaustion
Anger enveloping our emotions
Ensuring ordinary Nigerians become helpless
Because of someone’s desire for revenge
A health facility would only accept cash
A woman had to die, there is no cash
A dead person could not be buried
A white shroud required, also need cash
A marriage could not be solemnized
Dowry must be paid in cash
There is no cash, old or newly designed
What a tragedy for the couple and family?
Small businesses have closed
People have to walk for lack of cash
even with money at bank, one is cashless
One cannot withdraw one’s own money
Don’t talk about our relatives in rural areas
Life is made unbearable and maddening
The political leaders don’t care about us
Yet they want us to give them our votes
Ordinary Nigerians have all become collaterals
Because the old shark want to punish his enemies
At the expense of all of us who have not offended him
Today, we are the collateral damage of the old shark
February 9, 2023
10:35pm
© Yusuf M. Adamu
