Invictus- #POB-WOTW (S4W2)

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If you haven't heard about it, the right time has come to take you through the news making the roundabout our heroes, those who broke the jinx and made a way for us through thick and thin. Don't be confused, I am leading you somewhere and we hope to land safely at a decisive conclusion.
This week #pob-wotw, Invictus- the state of being a hardwood, unconquerable, indomitable and unwavering.

A young man, in the 1920s, left his parents to attend school in a town about two hundred kilometers from home. His name, Hilbert Ozumba (not his real name). He got admission to an all-boys secondary school where a lot of characters existed. As the gentle and mild boy he was, he became the favorite of most of his teachers.

One day, the school poultry was burgled. All layers and cockerel were taken away overnight. It was a shocker to the entire school community. Ozumba and other fellows who were assigned the duty of taking care of the school poultry and had the keys to the place were summoned.

Ordinarily, these boys are too young to have carried out this heinous crime, yet they were summoned. First, the poultry door was opened without breaking through it. Since the keys to the bird farm were with Ozumba, he was expelled from the school. It was a bitter experience for the young man.

He dare not return home. What would be his testimonials? From the school, he found his way to the seaport of Lagos and hid in one of the cabins as a stow-a-way. The ship sailed to the United State of America. There, he had the opportunity to work and school.

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While away, the nations of the world have started agitating for freedom or independence from colonialism following the declaration of the United Nations that every nation should be allowed to rule and determine what happens to them with any external influence.

Year later, Ozumba returned to Nigeria unlike Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya who rather should hold a conference for the freedom of Kenya, stayed back to study and came back as the first indigenous president of Kenya.

The American civilization gave Ozumba firsthand information that a democratic process is far-reaching than colonialism. Having served at different levels of the student union at Howard university, Ozumba came back home to push for a free state.

He did this so passionately. Other Nigerian fellows who have been schooled in the newfound world also came back home and became our forerunner nationalists agitating for self-rule and determination.

In not time, the pressure to abdicate the governance of the territory today known as Nigeria became intended that the colonial masters had to give way for local or indigenous participation in the politics within our polity.

Ozumba formed different alliances and signed treaties just to ensure that the nation and the administration of it's affairs is handled by the "peoples" of the state. He became the first indigenous president of Nigeria.

On one of his tour to see the state of development or dilapidation in the nation, he visited the state that housed the secondary school where he was expelled. This time, as the president of the federal republic.

Students and teachers queued up to welcome him. As his entourage moved round the town and came to the school gate, he saw the teacher that summoned him. At this point, the president's car halted and he alighted, moved to the teacher and stretched his hand for a shake.

Hello

That was all Mr. President said.

That word meant a lot. It could be termed:

I am invictus.