Israel Victoria
Whenever the citizens of Nigeria especially
Families of the victims that lost their dear lives in the Inferno that occurred
in the late hours of Thursday, the 28th of June 2018 hear the mention of the
popular billionaires name 'Otedola', it won't be for familiarity but for sorrow
and anguish. Also the killings in Plateau, Ibadan and Onisha respectively were
enough to cripple the heart of anyone that heard the news.
Whenever someone says have you had the
breaking news today, your heart begins to pounce as to what calamity has
befallen us again and to what extent, the fear of losing a family or loved ones
comes to your thought and all you can wish for is to disappear out of this
country. We could only pray to wake up from this bad dream. Wait a minute! Did
i just say pray? Interesting, when did we become so spiritual that we neglect
the use of our senses.
Over the years our country has continue to
degenerate into nothing with corruption, killings of its masses, hypocrisy of
our government, cowardice of the citizen all clothed in Religious fanaticism. I
wish i could say these serves us right but it will only be cruel because
innocent lives have been cut short all in the name of playing politics. Would
the government prefer its people to result to the use of violence before they
could give ears to us? Would they prefer revolution because we are at the
matured stage of it? Shall we begin another internal war like that of Syria? Is
this the change for heaven’s sake?.
Can we blame the government alone without the
citizenry having their own fair share of the blame, come 2019 the same crops of
politicians will come with their sooth saying and sugar coated promises, they
will appeal to our already shattered conscience by their propaganda and we
would still sell our votes(same old same
old, a leopard never changes its skin).Only 2% out of the population of
180million and still counting can boast to have a Permanent Voters Card (PVCs),
expecting that change will come by just praying, lamenting and calling the
government all sort of abusive tittles; aren’t we the enemies of our own growth.
Countries like America, China even Japan
are experiencing positive changes not because corruption doesn’t exist in those
country but because they have a responsive and responsible government who are
aware that they are first loyal to their people before their religion or any
other sentiment. Yes you can say Faith is a good thing but it is also a
personal thing. Russians are mostly free thinkers and yet they were able to put
and manage resources to host the whole world for a beautiful tournament-Russia
2018,God or gods didn’t interfere with their productivity, it wasn’t even an
excuse for failure ,they understood the importance of responsibility compared
to our almighty government who now prefer speeches of condolences to giving
speech on achievements and inventions and to top it all we are now enthroned on
the seat of poverty!
My pain is that after weeks of ranting we
suddenly developed amnesia, going about our businesses as if nothing even
happened in the first place, probably this write up will never see the light of
day but i would write anyways, perhaps it will inspire youths out there to make
a move, for it is time to be involved in the business of this country and thank
goodness the bill that supports the youth leadership has been passed into law,
now your age is no longer a barrier but you as there’s no other place to call
home and you are not going to move all your family members out of this country at
the same time alas, you should be very interested in making this part of the
world a better place not just for now but for generations yet to come.
I believe we the youths are the future
leaders, although the system has failed us in fact we have failed ourselves but
the time to make restitution for our mistakes is now, it will no longer be a
issue of i don't want to die but a matter of will anywhere be safe should we
keep quiet and go about hustling for just daily bread. Why not let’s copy what
was done in France, the youth taking over the government.
It's indeed a black June, I'm sure it has
been a long week too for everyone, too many sad news that makes you wonder if
you are watching a movie or seeing film trick and that reminds me the pastor
that prophesied the killer dates that there would be accidents and bloodshed; couldn't
you have interceded on behalf of this country because I'm wondering what your
job actually is? as a mouthpiece of God that you are I’m sure he would listen to
you. I just hope that you and your likes (prophets) would help in this
situation because we need your intercession now more than ever, it now goes
beyond tithes and offerings.
Let me drop my pen here before i start to
bore you with Nigerian issues, i never intend to write this long epistle but
you know when it comes to the issues in this country even a day old baby would
have something to lament about. I pray God grants us all the fortitude to bear
the losses as he is the only one person who can save us now even from
ourselves.
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