Laxity

Especially in Nigeria, it is so common that drivers take countless bottles of alcohol before and even after driving and this resulted in high rate of road accidents day by day.

Through the poetic object, in this poem (the government driver), who has shunned this bad habit for “many years” now goes back to it because he is by now a “freeman”, free from the rules of the civil service.

His sudden return to alcoholic drinks caused his premature death as he “boozed and boozed”. Had it been he didn’t use the booze to celebrate his retirement, he might have arrive safely at his “home” with his “brand new car”.

The poem therefore is a warning call to road users to stop the careless attitude.