…Just a thought
By Wenebi Youdeowei.
I am not daring enough to talk about the accomplishments of this very youthful old man, Rukevwe. It just might insinuate a smack of arrogance to detail the very blessed 60 years of this boy, some very serious metermophosis of a man being more man.
I remember him when he was in form one in that beautiful military like college in the belly of the Delta, that great citadel Government college Ughelli, was where Spencer called Onosode, he was not traditionally called Onosode 2 in the college despite the presence of his big brother Onosode, we didn’t know him as Ese. These guys were indigenous, at home in their village bred and properly groomed in Lagos tuned to God fearing elitist habits of impeccable parentage.
It is memorable to imagine the picturesque of Spencer in his black shorts and white sometimes green singlet of his abode in school. He walked sometimes with a seeming foot lag that signatured his movement, it had style, though apparently shed as he transitioned to an ‘lmago’.
Spencer sometimes wore a look that is indistinguishable from his make believe sly demeanor to deceive the unsuspecting, you could tell he had difficulties adjusting to the regimented nature of that college. Still adolescent, must have wondered why he was conscripted from Lagos to his village to be educated. Who does that? That was when there was a school and a country.
Yes, he had a brother Ese whose presence seemed an obvious succour for him, he was a senior bros. but you really couldn’t tell that they had a very close relationship but forged one purposed to survive the animal farm some mean students imagined the college. Spencer seemed a quiet, obedient fellow, yes he was.
Spencer survived that space and must have taken away some of his outlandish experience to another Government College this time in the western region of Nigeria. From the kind of company he graduated with you can guess it will be interesting to know what he took to the GCl table from his hometown school in Ughelli.
Who art thou Spencer? It will be tough to aggregate his personage, but what would you want to know? There are not too many people like Spencer, he no doubt belongs to an elitist class in some of the things he does best.
Though sometimes he wears a bullish mien, underneath, there’s this calm and very compassionate character enclosed in an easy going human living a life he understands too well is a gift from God.
Spencer is a very simple accomplished individual deserving of as much accolade for his friendship, kindness, open heartedness and loyalty to the institutions and persons whose lives he has crossed and impressed.
A man with a heart of compassion, meek in touching lives, emphatic in his ways and sociable. He believes in God’s purpose and resigned to His will.
He believes the key in life is to remain focused on what you’re doing and to leave the world a better place than how you found it,” “There is no time like the present to get busy, time for us to give back to society.”
This, remains what Spencer Rukevwe Onosode represents.
Happy birthday Spencer, welcome to the sixth floor.
