BRAND NEW DOCTORS AND DENTISTS!!! I am not a reporter so i will just go straight to the point. In these photos is Munir Muhammad Iya, the celebrant with Sabir Mohammad Iya and moi, at the attestation of brand new medical doctors and dentists, University of Maiduguri today. The announcer or MC frequently used the phrase brand new to almost anything he could. Our brand new doctors and dentists..., our brand new VC... May be the guy was in love with the words. May be he just learn them...seeing that newly learned words are often used, or he thought calling the VC or the graduands brand new will ginger the VC to give him something brand new like a car or something. Well, I was saying... it was a precise and brief, albeit humid affair. The place was too hot. I yearned to run back to my office to drink AC but I yearned more to be there for my brother when the occasions ended. Prof. Emeritus Umaru Shehu was there in person and actually todays first I have seen him outside a TV set. Later, another guy read some sort of collection of fancy words while the blue clad doctors repeated after him. I was told that it is the oath.They words the guy read were fancy, but something scared me. It is a normal and frequent thing with me to derail from something I am listening to to something else. So I derailed from the words coming from the oath reader and somewhere in my reverie, I heard him say Director of Security Service, DSS...and i could swear I heard Police, too. Hannde!! Haala wonni ai!! Caka ma be police sai aate nange! Well I come to know that they all have a connection somewhere in the process of the practicing and what nots. As the MC was rounding up, that is after the VC (brand new), the CMAC or C-something, gave their speeches, the Provost...(i remember now, the Provost also gave a speech)...the provost walked up to the MC and said something to him well away from the microphone - out of earshot! But yet, the MC came back on the mic and told the congregation what the Provost just told him. (Beats me why big people do that, they like leaning towards one another and talking in subdued tones in gatherings...dat kyn tin.) Well what the MC said was big, very big. He said, the Provost just got informed that all our brand new doctors have been certified (by some medical body whose acronym I cant recall) to practice anywhere in the world!!! A loud applause followed and I must be honest I had goose pimples then. No be small tin. The MC became my hero only when he charged the graduands to turn to their parents and thank them for sacrificing THE MUCH and MOST just to give them a better life. Goose pimples there, too. Finally, finally, we came out of the hall, in anticipation of fresh air. Alas, just like GEJs promise of fresh air, the disappointment was something else. Sabir, Munir...oops, Dr. Munir Muhammad Iya and me had to do with the searing sun, worse was I was wearing black (funnily a favorite color of mine). We snapped the photos like that and I said goodbye to Sabir and the brand new doctor. I hurried back to my office which happens to be just a stone throw from the place we were snapping photos in hot sun, me wearing black. Ehhen! I dont know if I am the only one who noticed, doctors and security personnel like the armed forces seem to be sentimentally attached to initials. You know, their names and all that stuff. Two or three initials and a last name in full, So whats it gonna be, brand new doctor? YOU ALL HAVE A BLISSFUL RAMADAN.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:05:10 +0000
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