FOR HOW LONG?

My heart is moved to tragedy because we have a group of power mongers who keep using our country to play the game of ludo. They throw the dice, and they play what it comes up with, meanwhile they are buying time privately and pursuing their own their self interest. The process of governance is been violated with impunity and the culprits are still red carpeted upon their crimes. To many who do not know, the great land watered by the Niger and Benue between the sandy wastes and gulf of guinea, washed in salt by mighty Atlantic is now a refinery for the production of finished goods like corruption, looting, thuggery, kidnapping and maiming.


For how long shall we stand and watch our future eroded in a wasting generation; for how long shall we stand in a place where men are deprived of what is their own?



In everything we do in Life, there is always a method to go about it, even in madness. Life is all about making an imagination to produce a good result. Imagination sets the goal which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. My joy drowns in my grief has I have started imagining that there may not be a place for the coming generation to stay. Nigeria has been plagued with a viral disease called “National Incompetence”. The title ‘Giant of Africa” remains on our lips by precedent and not by what we used to have. We operate the best system of government and yet we remain at the extreme corner of the world. Democracy’s world is rich and multifaceted. It is a system that combines the centrality of laws and values but yet all the values have gone into extinction in my fatherland. We live in a state of emptiness where no one can predict well what the country is ready to offer talk less of what to offer. Emptiness is a symptom that one is not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in striving towards an important goal. Yes, we are blessed with all manners of blessings under the sun but the blessings and geniuses in us are hundred but because of corruption occasioned by the priority and perpetuation of self above the interest of the citizenry, we remain at the extreme corner of the world. Few states can boast of recent developments but the remaining states can show case to the world power tussle between political opponents, maiming and assassination, religious bigotry, lawlessness, pipeline vandilization etc. the modesty in us as Nigerians is already fading out as we know longer command the respect of other countries rather we get embarrassed in different airports around the world. Does this not worth a shame?



Development is on strike in Nigeria. Every good thing is in a standstill. All we get is various and incompetent reports of constituted committees that are full of individuals with tired brains and not active and articulate ones. Our problems are enormous that not even the solutions suggested by the committees are effective. We want to see actions and not paper works. If nations of the world are to be judged by the well being of their people, by the provisions that is made afforded to the growing minds and bodies of children and by the provision that is made for those who are vulnerable and disadvantaged. Nigeria would be ranked among the first violators.



The process of a nation building should commence for the purpose of posterity. Instead of saying man is the creature of circumstance; it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. At this moment I would say that those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying, let them spend our earth’s fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war and corruption. The last banquet shall be their children’s blood. Charity is no longer enough, there should be an extension of hands full of love and help to change the unenviable lives of citizens ravaged by diseases. We should always remember that earthly treasures are not ours to keep. Our dollars, naira, euros and pounds are of little use if not invested in the future of our fatherland. The fight for superiority is not a day process and it is time we get a cure to the viral disease that has crippled all spheres of endeavour in our country. But the question to this is for how long?



Let us bear in mind, that if we are going to amount to anything, our success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which we take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which we hang on after we have taken hold. The love that follows us is sometimes our trouble. I hope Nigeria will rise from her slumber and make us proud again.