{"id":96522,"date":"2025-12-10T07:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=96522"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:21:09","slug":"tiger-base-or-tiger-crase-a-satire-in-pidgin-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=96522","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Base or tiger crase [A satire in Pidgin English]"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Chinedu Agu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dem say for one corner of Imo bush,
\nNear where evening breeze dey hush,
\nStand one den wey no be place for man;
\nTigerbase, wey craze pass tiger wey don mad.<\/p>\n

Dem tigers no dey roar for forest;
\nNa inside uniform dem hide their chest,
\nEyes red like kerosene lantern wey leak,
\nTeeth sharp like story wey elders no fit speak.<\/p>\n

For night, dem parade as protector,
\nFor day, dem turn to predator;
\nAnybody wey near their gate dey pray,
\nBecause Tigerbase na place wey shadow get leg.<\/p>\n

Dem get one chamber wey I fit call Golgotha;
\nA cross no dey for church matter,
\nBut na where dem tie human beings
\nLike sacrifice wey no get sin.
\nGroan dey fly for air like harmattan dust,
\nAnd rope dey preach sermon of pain and rust.<\/p>\n

Me sef don go prison before, no be small time,
\nI land for Owerri Prison, government and Magistrate lock me for no crime.
\nBut as I sidon dey count wall, I hear plenty cry for night,
\nNa victims of Tigerbase full every corner, dem eyes don lose light.<\/p>\n

Dem say shrine dey the backyard too,
\nPalm oil, mirror, feather, and small juju;
\nWhere Tiger craze dey dance for dark,
\nAnd silence dey beat drum for ritual mark.<\/p>\n

Rumour talk say deep for ground,
\nWhere even breeze fear to make sound,
\nLie one hollow wey I fit call the Arimathean’s Tomb;
\nA place wey body fit vanish like perfume.<\/p>\n

For this Tiger kingdom, one name dey reign:
\nKill-and-Bury, na so storybook explain.
\nA name wey waka before the man,
\nLike him shadow dey do road work for Ohaji\/Egbema.<\/p>\n

And over all dem wild animals,
\nOga Ola sit for him bamboo palace;
\nHim throne na rumour, him crown na fear,
\nHim judgment no get appeal anywhere.<\/p>\n

People dey miss without footprint,
\nLawyer no dey see detainee,
\nCall no dey go, trace no dey show
\nNa only family cry dey blow.<\/p>\n

Women whisper their ordeal soft,
\nVoice crack like pot wey fall from loft;
\nFor Tigerbase, dignity dey cheap,
\nTears dey soak pillow wey no fit sleep.<\/p>\n

Bribe dey flow like rainy gutter,
\nAnybody wey no pay go suffer;
\nJustice dey shiver for corner dey cough,
\nAs Tiger craze dey chase am off.<\/p>\n

But one day, breeze carry the tale,
\nMedia pick am, town begin yell;
\n\u201cWetin be dis kingdom of wild beasts?
\nWho crown tigers as human police?\u201d<\/p>\n

And so Tigerbase, or Tiger Craze,
\nTurn moral lesson for market place:
\nWhen animal begin dey behave like king,
\nHumanity go lose him precious wing.<\/p>\n

For land where power don turn to fang,
\nEvery silence dey carry gunshot twang;
\nAnd when justice dey bleed for cage,
\nEven tiger go fear human rage.<\/p>\n

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Barrister Chinedu Agu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u25cf Barrister Agu na lawyer wey dey fight for common people, he be former secretary of NBA Owerri, and una fit contact am for im telephone number\u00a0 +2348032568512.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Chinedu Agu Dem say for one corner of Imo bush, Near where evening breeze dey hush, Stand one den wey no be place for man; Tigerbase, wey craze pass tiger wey don mad. Dem tigers no dey roar for forest; Na inside uniform dem hide their chest, Eyes red like kerosene lantern wey leak, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":96529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782,5784],"tags":[7652,7651,3228,7650],"class_list":["post-96522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-opinion","category-pidgin","tag-base","tag-crase","tag-owerri","tag-tiger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}