ONE'S PROFFESSION

SOMETIME AGO, A PROFFESSOR WAS SENT ON AN ERRAND TO ONE OF THE RIVERINE COMMUNITIES IN THE NIGER DELTA. THIS PROFFESSOR CAME WITH A NUMBER OF ENTOURAGE. HE GOT TO A PLACE THAT HIS JEEP COULD NOT CROSS THE RIVER AND SO HE NEEDED THE SERVICES OF A BOAT MAN WHICH HE GOT RIGHTLY. ON THEIR WAY ON THE BOAT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER, THEY WERE ENGAGED IN SERIES OF DISCUSSION. THIS PROFFESSOR NOTICED THAT THE BOAT MAN KNOWS NOTHING BUT FISHING SINCE HE RESIDES IN A RIVERINE AREA AND PROBABLY MIGHT HAVE NOT BEEN OPPORTUNED TO VISIT A CITY. HE ABUSED THE MAN OF BEEN ILLITERATE AND FAILLING TO GO TO SCHOOL WHEN HIS MATE WERE GOING. THE BOAT MAN AS A RIVERINE KNOWS HOW TO SWIM WELL AND EXCELLENTLY AND HIS MAJOR OCUPATION IS FISHIN, SO HE WAS ANGRY THAT A TRAINED PROFESSOR COULD ABUSE HIM THIS WAY. SO HE THOUGHT OF WHAT HARM HE COULD DO TO THIS EDUCATED ELITE, WHAT ACTUALLY CAN HE DO, HE ASKED THE MAN WITH DUE RESPECT, " SIR I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT YOU KNOW ALL THINGS, PLEASE SIR CAN I ASK A QUESTION? GO AHEAD MY SON THE PROFESSOR REPLIED. SIR CAN YOU SWIM VERY WELL? NO MY SON, SO YOU SWIM THIS BIG RIVER VERY WELL? YES SIR THE BOAT MAN REPLIED." AT THAT JUNCTURE THE BOAT MAN DIVED INTO THE RIVER AND SWAM AWAY, WHILE MY PROFESSOR WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE WORLD OF RIVER DIED AND WAS FED UPON.