INDIMI: LET MODESTY BE OUR GUIDE - Maiwada Dammallam

INDIMI: LET MODESTY BE OUR GUIDE - Maiwada Dammallam

Indimi was inconsiderate by being overtly extravagant in his ostentatious display of love to the daughter of President Buhari. I expect him (as a son to be) to be mindful of the image of his soon to be father. I expect him to protect or at least preserve the image of simplicity and modesty associated with President Buhari especially at this period when the President is saddled with the onerous task of nursing a raped economy amidst real and phantom wails of hunger.

Sure, the groom could easily lessen the burden of the President by being modest even if he could afford Harrods and its staff. He could even make it better by deploying the millions spent for the 'lefe' on numerous IDPs that constitute some of the greatest worries of President Buhari. Coming from Borno, there's no better time for the groom to the express his gratitude to Almighty Allah for HIS favours which insulated him from the pains of unplanned destitution and looming hopelessness as is the average narrative in Borno and the North East.

I don't know what contributions Indimi might have made but, whatever, N40m is quite a huge sum that could change the story of many disrupted families and restore smile back into their lives. Indimi wasted a good opportunity to show solidarity to his people by just being modest. Of course, Borno is notorious when it comes to issues of ostentatious display of wealth during marriages, but then, it's not a divine law that could not be adjusted to accommodate inconvenient situations as we have in the North East.

Assuredly, President Buhari will never sanction such an outrageous display of insensitivity especially at a time when he's battling to restore sanity and confidence into a traumatised system. For all I believe, the exotic vehicles loaded with the 30 LV boxes must have caught him unaware as it did many Nigerians. It's not the tradition to alert the bride's family about what to expect as 'lefe' hence, I won't blame him for supporting this extravagance. Actually I doubt if such crass insensitivity would impress the President especially given the fact that his daughter doesn't really need laces or whatever was loaded inside the LV boxes.

In my opinion, scholarships to kids who lost their parents to BH insurgency or blocks of classrooms in villages being rebuilt in Borno State could have earned a special place for the groom in the mind of the President beside the huge reward Indimi would reap in the hereafter.