Shame! shame!! shame!!!
Today, the Nigerian middle class is clamouring for change as if change is going out of fashion or they are just waking up to the current reality from a comatose slumber.
A people most often deserve the leadership they get. This is an incontrovertible truism.
The reason Nigeria has gotten this bad is that the entire elites in Nigeria are a bunch of selfish people who truly don't care about the future of the country so long as they and their families are doing fine or there is hope they'll do fine.
What concerns the average person is self and not society, forgetting that if the society is sick no one can be well. When it is time to talk, they are always at the forefront. But when it is time for action, they disappear into the thin air running back to their jobs and families.
They forget that eventually, what goes around comes around. Some of them abandon the country and escape to foreign lands with their families in search of greener pastures forgetting that it took human beings not angels to develop where they are seeking refuge.
The ones left here are busy making money to take care of their family and disregarding every other thing about rebuilding the nation. We inadvertently left the stage for misfits who have made a complete mess of the nation's fortune.
Nigeria did not suddenly get this bad. The journey has been a gradual and visible one. But we all chose to close our eyes to it and mind our businesses. Who do we then hold responsible for the situation? Let each of us search our minds. No great nation is ever built on a population like ours.
Now that the chicken is coming home to roost, we have continued in our mental indolence, hoping that suddenly a miracle would happen. Oh no, dear friends, the era of manna is over. We all need to work for the society that we want.
In resolving the crisis of national stagnation or even retrogression, we have still refused to look inward and challenge ourselves to rise to the occasion. For us, any option is good enough so long as we are not the ones running it. How can we build a progressive society with this regressive mindset?
Today, Nigeria is shamefully caught between perceived incompetence and threatening fundamentalism. And we, the elites, are ignominiously caught defending either of these unpalatable extremes. The shame on us is further compounded by the prevailing mental lock caused by the rampaging frustration that is making a mess of all and sundry
While I completely refuse to sympathize with this abysmal situation that we have negligently foisted on ourselves, I urge us all to be more reflective and mentally rigorous in the way we appraise, diagnise and treat the current emergency that is undermining the survival of our nation.
Let us abandon our recurrent and indulgent half-hearted solutions of comfort and convenience and embrace the real change demanded of us by this trying times. Let us stop indulging ourselves and continue to wait for a messiah that may NEVER COME.
Until we are ready to get involved no matter how tough the battle is, until we are ready to serve and sacrifice, there shall never be a great country we can be proud of. But the burden of the future of this country and the future of our children rests squarely on our shoulders.
If we do what we should, we would not be caught between two evils henceforth. Let not the problems facing the society today drive the nation into a dive of death.
LET NOT OUR FRUSTRATION DRIVE US INTO A WORSE QUAGMIRE.
I sincerely beg of all.
Bros, this post was made in the heat of the last general elections where the two major contending parties, PDP and APC were written off as equally undesirable.
ReplyDeleteContext is critical when alluding to past presentations to avoid misrepresentation.
While APC was suspected of possible fundamentalism, PDP had already manifested itself as grossly incompetent, a vicious ailment that is still haunting the party till date.
The TODAY in the quote was referring to the JONATHAN era of PDP. So also is the RAMPAGING FRUSTRATION.
Ire o.