You鈥檒l never be exposed to a crowd of people as diverse as those you鈥檒l meet in NYSC camp. Although the living conditions are appalling聽these people almost make the whole experience worth it.
There are the ones who just came back from the overseas and will start stressing everybody with ‘that’s not how we did thing in the States’ and accent.
Even the ones who went to Cotonou will have British accent.
There are the ones who were only interested in getting exeat so that they could go home.
They didn鈥檛 come to suffer with you commoners.
The ones who just came to drink their destinies away at mammy market.
But on a serious note, they might have actually needed professional help.
Then there were the ones who belonged to the school of hard knacks and only came to have as much sex as they could.
It鈥檚 just three weeks, it鈥檚 that how the konji is doing you?
The ITKs that were always volunteering for everything.
They didn鈥檛 rest until they became聽platoon leader.
The ‘do you know who my father is’ people?
If you don鈥檛 geddifok聽out of here.
The ones who were somehow so excited to be in camp.
Have you seen the toilets? What鈥檚 making you happy?
We can’t leave out all those promise and fail soldiers.
The ones that鈥檒l tell you don鈥檛 worry if you march well you鈥檒l get posted to the capital and you ended up getting posted to a village without light.
The ones who were only there for the food.
All the food sellers at mammy market knew them.
The ones you are pretty sure were old enough to have been in the first ever batch of NYSC.
They might have even been your father鈥檚 age mate.
The ones whose life mission was to never step foot on the parade ground.
They did whatever it took and were always in the clinic.
There was the friendly soldier everyone liked.
They didn鈥檛 have any聽wahala.
And the one who was only interested in making people miserable.
But who offended you?
The ones who came to camp to find love.
And they found it o.
The ones who secured their exeat with doctor’s report as soon as they stepped foot into the camp.
Only you asthma, cancer, bronchitis and HIV. Take your wahala and go.
