My dear Naijapal analysts let us for once be positive analysts. Nigeria today is rotten to the root and we too including me are not helping matters as to how we can best revive this rotten nation of ours. Our daily judgments are been beclouded with selfish interests either to protect our ergo, our covetous friends, our local governments, our failed political parties, our rotten tribes, our under-developed states, etc. Our government and YOU out there have failed us. When I talk about our failed government, I am also talking about our failed YOU. Our “failed” selves start from the community around us. We have failed ourselves in almost all areas of life- from the individual self to our family; from our family to our little village community; from our little village community to our bigger community to our town; from our towns down to our states and to a greater responsibility to our nation etc.
Our so-called vision is geared towards the self as I said before. Our sense of right is beclouded to what we can do to better yourself only. In other words, we all in one way or the other are an “I BEFORE OTHERS (IBO) instead of “OTHERS BEFORE I” (OBI). Check out the difference! When our only vision of life, the “self” or the “I” realization is achieved, nothing again around you is meaningful. We continue to acquire on and on. No other hard work. What matter is the “national cake”. By the way, who is baking this national cake) Where does he/she replenish whatever items he/she uses in baking the national cake? No replenishment, until the cake is finished. In the days and years of eating from the national cake, again nothing counts except the source. Whether somebody is sick, hungry, dying, going to school, etc around you becomes insignificant to you. This is the vision for every Nigerian today and always. This is our orientation. When the self interest is lacking, we become failed in life, we agitate, we become indignant, and we become aggressive. We carry this on and on and inflict it on and on. We criticize on and on. A failed person can not and can never resurrect anything.
The moment we make ourselves true and good and live by it, the better we become “OTHERS BEFORE I” This is the true person who thinks about the affairs of others and his community, his state, his nation. He does not start his ergo vision from the self. He is the leader material. He is the presidential candidate. This is the true politician. In a bigger picture, this is the person that meditates always on: “what can he/she offer or do for his/her nation? He sacrifices himself or herself for the good and service of his/her people. He criticizes positively for the interest of the public. He does not incite, instigate or sponsor war and hatred, suggests for anarchy in the land or in public places and strikes etc. In a small picture, he does not cheat or fraud his customers, clients, look for occasions for cheating etc. He does not increase the prices if his commodity during festive seasons. He is not inconsiderate to his neighbors with his/her generating plants carbon emissions. He does not twitter like the soldier in this article while on duty, chat, but care for his/her job, the environment and all and sundry etc
Do we have such people in our country today? Do we have such people in politics today? Do we have such people in the military today? Do we have such people in all spheres of our national institutions, companies, factories, higher institutions of learning? The answers to such endless questions are simply NO. Who is such a person without fault in Nigeria? Nigeria is rotten to the root as I said earlier because the soil on which Nigeria stands is no longer fertile. Nigeria is facing draught today because there is nobody to water it all. Like Majek Fashek, let us pray God to “send down the rain” which is YOU and I to water and give food to this “tree”. Nigeria. All the Nigeria administrations have failed us in the past. GEJ administration has failed us. YOU and I out there have failed us. The only thing that is constant is Change. Change is all we need to a better Nigeria. This Change subsists in reality. And this reality is YOU and I.
Posted: at 6-01-2015 07:10 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie |
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