Who Will Baptize this Nation?
We encounter many challenges in this country
and one of them is poverty. Poverty grows everyday in our country like a
plantain nurtured at the bank of the river. Every family in the country witness
in different perspectives, therefore one has to leave home at first cockcrow to
look for what the family will eat for the day. This includes men and women; one
will be surprised sometimes when you see ladies driving commercial cars or motor
cycles. But if you ask them, the answer always comes in the usual way, ‘we are
looking for what to eat, so you don’t need to ask about gender status because
our country do not make provision for that.’ Thus when non- citizen of this
nation comes to visit his friend ( whom they met accidentally online), the
former will feel shy of taking the latter to his residence-but you can only
find them in the hotel, so that the visitor will not be disappointed for coming
all the way from his country.
Tribalism serves
as our major threat to the enthusiasm of this country development. Maybe
regions in this country were not amalgamated by the white colonial master, this
country would have been better, but let’s suggest that we were not together
like this (where we have Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) love would have developed
among people that belong to a clan. But reverse is the case in this situation
where we have been merged together like frozen fish. Clearly, each tribe in the
country looks for way of survival without considering others, let alone it
thinks of what will benefit country as a whole. But maybe each section of the
country is endowed with different natural potentials that we don’t want to
share in common, what we have together (which only spread into different
areas), then, there is no any composure that extinction will come to erase this
challenge. But what is the way out to exonerate this credence?
Untrustworthy
is a great disease that wreck down the image of this nation. Every day and
night, the many people learn how to survive from angle of life they find
themselves. It is not a worthy note that you see a young graduate from the
university or any college giving account of jobless situation he has
encountered. Many of them strive to perch themselves in a small scale
businesses so that three square meal per day will come their way.
However, some
graduates in the country found no time to think of engaging in small scale
businesses, but many believe that there is no hope for them because no means of
income assails their way. Therefore, they hang out with their friends who
manage to work somewhere like cyber café.
During this time, the second party who is unable to secure a job may
play with the computer just to make him busy and in the process of chatting
with his friends on the internet both share their economy status of their
country to each other. Thus unwaged fellow will find way of hiding his problem
but the only thing that will be on his mindset is how to scam his friend on the
internet. This attitude goes round many areas like so the culture of ‘yahoo-yahoo’
begins in the country.
Greediness is
another common trait found around the corner of this nation’s cheeks. Everyone
cares for his pocket irrespective of arm it may cause to others. There are a
lot of these traits among many citizens except those who fear God and take life
simple as it is in yore. We do not know
this attitude thrived in the heart of the people and pass to generation like
folklore. Since the time of our independent as a sovereign state, every mortal
under the sky of this country thought of any other thing except for what will
lift him up from the people in grassroots by hook and cook. Even if a
conscience fellow emerge from a family to fight for the right of the people and
mobilize other on what is right, it is obvious that conscience will later in
the day when there is no more courage from the people (because everyone sings
‘me and my own’). Thus, this imprudent character germinates in many souls from
grass level to the top of the leaves.
We should not be
baffled if we see any of our political office holders representing their pocket
and not the people. The phrase, ‘bad leadership’ is like a nursery rhyme
everyone aware of all the time. Before our leaders are elected to different
offices, many of them prostrate before each door we have in the country to
foretell their eagerness and commitment to service for if they attain the
power. But reverse is the case since we have gained independent till date. You
will surprise how our representatives in the House of Assembly talk with top of
their voice while filing up the bill for annual budget, but no one will know
the consequence of the money when it has been issued to respected areas.
Undoubtedly, we all know that corruption is the bedrock of this country.
Nonetheless, we all
aware of what happen in the country, but the question is, who and when this
menace will be buried under the earth of our feet that situation in the country
nowadays will end? Are you the one who will change this? Maybe you don’t know it
is this present generation that must rise to the call of orphan country. We must
stand affirm to our goal so that what not enough in the past will be sufficient
for everyone, and for the generation hereafter, they will not experience this
again. If this can possible, our country will be the fore-horse to other
countries in the world.
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