Ondopress
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has slammed those making mockery of the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Despite Buhari dying at the age of 82 in London, some Nigerians have been celebrating his death for reasons known to them.
Reacting, Fani-Kayode described such action as dancing in Buhari’s grave.
Read his words shared on his Facebook page:
The sordid and disrespectful things that a malevolent horde of miscreants and malodrous street urchins are posting in the media about the passing of President Muhammadu Buhari makes the stomach turn.
Whether you loved or hated him, supported or opposed him, reverred or despised him or were simply indifferent to the late President one thing is clear: to make mockery of him in death is unacceptable.
It is shameful and despicable to make jest of anyone for dying or to dance on that persons grave no matter who he is and no matter what the circumstances are.
God alone will judge us after passing and reward or condemn us for our deeds or misdeeds accordingly: it is not for man to do so.
It appears that some of those amongst us have lost all sense of decency and have forgotten that the departed have families, friends and loved ones who are going through pain and attempting to bear their loss with dignity.
David did not mock King Saul, his greatest enemy, adversary, persecutor and source of torment when he died but instead he treated him with compassion and respect and he eulogised and mourned him.
He even slew the man that killed him saying that, no matter what his shortcomings may have been, Saul was still a man that had been anointed King by God and he would therefore never seek to harm him or mock him in death.
May I remind those that are celebrating the demise and passing of President Buhari that death comes to us all. It is only a matter of time.
I urge them to pray hard that they have the long life that he enjoyed, that they are as widely celebrated as he has been in death and that they establish as great a legacy as he did before they go to the grave.
Those trolling his memory today will die and be buried like stray dogs with few to remember or mourn them.
I urge them to ponder on that. Their hate will lead them to destruction and send them to hell.
More importantly their mockery takes NOTHING from President Buhari.
He has run his course, he has fought a good fight, he has established a great legacy, he is loved by millions and he has gone to meet his maker.
I wonder what they have done or managed to achieve in their unabashedly mediocre and thoroughly uneventful lives other than troll others on social media and prove to the world how ill-mannered and ill-bred they are?
I would remind them of the profound words of the celebrated 16th century English poet John Donne that were encapsulted in his famous poem titled ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’.
He wrote,
“No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee”.
Surely even the unlettered, the uncouth, the unrefined and the vulgar can appreciate the wisdom, profundity and deep insight of these words and the author.
May the soul of President Muhammadu Buhari rest in peace.