Disreputable Nigeria Police Force
One good man can alter the destiny of a Country and one bad man can ruin a Nation.
I take passion in writing about Nigeria Politics but now I realized that am only focusing on the hole in ‘Doughnut’ while taking my eyes away from the rounded fence. At times, we need to stop talking about politics and talk about what degrades our society. Here, I’ll like to talk about the Nigeria Police Force.
If you look at the traffic controllers on our roads (check-points), you will think that they are decent men, but if you look intently at them very well, you will find out that they are rotten carcasses, criminals and the likes.
They keep disgracing the country on check-points. Although they are given salaries, yet they beg (at times they Shakara) for 20 naira on the roads; they turned themselves to professional beggars. They turned the check-points for safety to extortion-points; at times they carry-out road-blocks at night if they made a small amount of money during the day. They are armed robbers in disguise.
My 2 hours Experience on Ilesa-Akura Expressway:
It was on a Friday evening, On my journey to nowhere, I was stopped by a Policeman (name withheld) on-getting to a town second junction. The Policeman asked of the Car Particulars I drove; though I was a learner then, I showed him my ‘Learner’s Permit’, he told me to park the car very well and come down, I did; I asked of my offence after showing him my ‘learner’s permit’, he kept quiet; he later said, ‘Chairman, Una be Student na, Una Suppose know the next step of action, abi una wan stay here for hours ni?’, all he wants is for me to dip my hand into my pocket and give him money which he never worked for.
I made up my mind that I won’t do such a thing, I won’t add to the degrading factors of my beloved country ; he said I should sit down if I can’t ‘Roja’ him. Immediately, a thought came to my mind that why can’t I sit down to witness what I have been hearing about the disgraceful act of our Policemen, then I told the man that it will even be my pleasure to play with him. He told me to sit on a bench beside the road which they sits-on. On that bench, there are also his two colleagues; I greeted them and sat beside them.
His colleagues asked me what happened and I told them, I think they could help but they kept quiet when they discovered that I didn’t ‘Kun ile l’oda’ (drop money). I kept quiet and pretend as if am a complete gentle guy, not knowing that I was watching all the discreditable act of their colleague on road. I looked intently at him very well.
Whenever a Motor approaches him, He tells the motorist to ‘ROJA ME’, if the man behind the steering looks like somebody who can part with some cash. I mean if the motorist looks like a big man (rich), the policeman will stamp his feet on the ground, flings his right hand up in a warm salute and shout; ‘Area Calm Sir’, or he tells the man; ‘Your Boys are here Sir’, or he may say; ‘Wetin Una Chop Remain Sir?’, at time he says; ‘E funwa l’owo Pure Water Sir’. But, if it’s those NURTW people, he will say ‘Una don pass here today?’ or ‘Una don see us today?’ at times he says ‘Oga U never drop o’ (they understand since they see themselves everyday), if a Motorcyclist (Okada man), or a Taxi (kabu-kabu) driver approaches the policeman, he will boom and say; ‘Wetin Una Carry?’, Imagine!
Are Policemen no longer being paid salaries?
It degrades the Police when its officers carry the handbags of Politicians’ wives at parties. They are made to run unsavoury errands, including being bouncers at such revelries. But the worst abuse occurs when the Police are used to subvert the will of the people in Vote grabbing, thereby stifling democracy. They, by so doing, prevent willy-nilly the essence of their calling by confusing their responsibility to the State with their blind loyalty to the men holding the ‘Levers of Power’.
FLASHBACK:
In April 2007, during the general elections, the Police were deployed into civil society to sanitise the elections but stuffing of ballot boxes, vote’s inflation, intimidation of voters, electoral fraud happened under their eyes, even with their connivance.
From my research, I learnt that Nigeria Police Force has a historical knack for corruption, inconsistency, torture, blackmail, armed robbery, suppression, oppression, repression, extortion, intimidation, murder and the likes. I think we need to reform the Police force before it becomes a menace to our society (before becoming a ‘thorn in our flesh’ like Niger Delta Militants, Boko Haram Sect.).
A friend suggested that maybe their dark uniform should be changed because the symbolism of the dark uniform of the Police conveys a presentment of Evil, giving the men a kind of mournful appearance. This provokes deep thoughts about their minds. Many Kids do ask their parent when they see a Policeman that are they devils, since they read in their textbooks that devil is black. Now, I’ll like to ask, are Policemen devil in the uniform, considering their excesses?
To the suggestion of my friend, I don’t think the solution will be the changing of their dark uniform but they need revolution of minds. They need to know that they’re disgracing themselves and the country with their disreputable acts on our roads. They need a paradigm shift in the way they think if all their thinking is all about money, money, money without defending the integrity of our Country.
It sickens me when I hear that we fight crime with Nigeria Police as is presently constituted, they are the real criminals, and we should do away with them.
What will you say of Inspector ‘Oluwaseunre Okechukwu Aminu’ who is the Chief and Protector of Armed Robbers (‘oludaabobo’, ‘agbode gba’, ‘baba isale’ awon ‘adigunjale’)? He has his own boys that operates at night in the State he oversees; they share the stolen goods at equal rate. Whenever any of his boys is caught and brought before him, he will free the person; does this man not constitute nuisance? If the Inspector is transferred to another State, his boys will follow him so that they can get their so-called divine protection from their Chief.
NB:
The above name doesn’t exist; it’s just my mere imagination but this is what is happening in our society and it requires an urgent attention before it gotten out of hand.
What future does a country like NIGERIA have where crime is also being perpetrated by our so-called Policemen? It is truly a sad development and tells of how we have truly failed as a Nation. Things have been this bad and it calls for urgent concern by our leaders.
One good man can alter the destiny of a Country and one bad man can ruin a Nation. So, we urgently need to Reform and Strengthen the Nigeria Police Force.
Reform the Nigeria Police Force Now!
Long Live Federal Republic of Nigeria!
God Bless Nigeria!!
God Bless You All!!!
Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde.
Thursday, 18 August 2011
NIGERIA: John F. Kennedy’s Quote!
NIGERIA: John F. Kennedy’s Quote!
“Ask not what your country can do for you, rather ask what you can for your country” - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Ask not what “NIGERIA” can do for you, rather ask what you can do for “NIGERIA” as a Nigerian” – Oluwatomilola Kennedy Boyinde
There is no doubt that every one of us reads the above quote daily and ponders. Thinking of what to do for one’s Country is a great thing and even something we should take with Passion but we Nigerians really need to take time to ask ourselves some reflecting questions about the quote of John F. Kennedy.
Questions like; What is the interior motive of John F. Kennedy when he said it? Where did he say it? How does the surrounding looks like when he said it? What character is of the person who said the word? What has the person himself done for the Nation he said they should think of what to do for? How developed is the country of where John Fitzgerald Kennedy from? How comfortable is the citizen of the country? How developed is the minds of the leaders of his country? How have the leaders of his country impacted life into the citizens?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is an American, America‘s youngest President; he did a lot for his Beloved Country and he’s a person of a good character. I don’t need to tell you how developed America is; you already know how comfortable Americans are; we know how developed the minds of leaders of America; we know how they care for the people they serve; I need not tell you how they think about the comfort of the citizens.
Thinking of what to do for one’s Country is a great thing and even something we should take with Passion but are we Nigerians Unjustified if we do nothing for our Country considering the hardship we are today? An adage says ‘parents are the television the children watch’; my point here is not about parents and children but about we Nigerians and our Rulers (supposed leaders). Our leaders who are supposed to be of good examples are not helping matters at all; most of them are of questionable characters. They pollute the minds of the citizens with their disreputable act.
Here in NIGERIA, Our leaders fool us daily with promises and demagoguery, and believe us to be super suckers; Which is why they daily promise us good life but they’re inflicting economic hardship on us instead. Instead of delivering the ‘Dividends of Democracy’ to us, they are delivering ‘Dividends of D’em’ocracy’, they STEAL our collective money to build mansions, buy expensive jeeps and add wives and concubines to their harem. Also, they throw big parties with the most expensive drinks (Champagne, Hennessey, Vino tinto and the likes) with our money in utter merriment of their birthdays or in any ceremony. Rather than to use it to feed, clothe and educate their compatriots and provide jobs and health care for us and pay us decent salaries/wages and repair the broken infrastructures and give us at least a glimpse of the good life. With these, do you think Nigerians will ever think of what to do for Nigeria?
Section 33, Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, states that ‘The first duty of a serious government is to guarantee the security of the lives and properties of its Citizens’.
Here in NIGERIA, house owners provide layers and layers of security. All the windows are provided with burglar proofs, fences are put round the houses and on top of the fences are puts broken bottles or sharp iron, iron studs or barbwire, upon all, house owners will still employ ‘security man’ (Maigadi), all in an attempt to secure life and property to the extent that their own houses has become a semi prison-yard. In fact, we are extremely lucky in this country that the incidence of fire is very few and far between. Imagine what could have happened if fire was a regular occurrence in Nigeria, many people will fall victim to fire in their barb-wired houses. Can an In-secure person think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, the citizens are poorer, poverty is everywhere except in the houses of Nations LOOTERS; the dividends of democracy don’t trickle down to sundry all; the people are daily being killed by the violence of the poverty. Some people are crying for food, some people’s bellies are getting big while some necks are getting longer. A society that cannot help the many that are poor, but can help the few that is rich. The citizens are hapless and helpless, yet, we have a Government, the one that the people voted for. Can a hungry man think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, We pay PHCN bills despite generating our own light with the aid of Generators because there is epileptic power supply; several homes have gone without electricity supply for many months running. Where this available at all, the erratic nature of the supply which comes on and off; sometimes at an interval of 2 minutes, has been a source of anguish to many Nigerians. In this situation, several home gadgets such as TV Sets, Refrigerators, Air Conditioners and others have been blown up or damaged, some beyond repairs. Can a person who sleeps in darkness think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, things are overpriced. Lands, houses, foods, cars, est. are sold at ridiculously high prices as if they are meant for aliens and not for we the people; things are exorbitant. They are classified for the super rich; honest, growing and working people have no chance. A good life in Nigeria is so expensive and is only reserved for only a few. Can an Uncomfortable man think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, the rule of law does not exist; there is lack of due process/rule of law. There are different laws for different social class. Justice comes in hiccups. The rule of law gives way to rule of brutality and bribery. The lawmakers are the lawbreakers. Laws are only made for the poor people while the opulent lives with their wicked acts; the poor people are Voiceless. Can a Jilted Citizen think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, Parents suffer to educate their wards, but thereafter no jobs for them; more people are in the unemployment market. They’ll get to all the nooks and crannies of a city everyday, all in the name of seeking job. Can an Unemployed person think of what he/she can do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, we have hospitals without doctors, medicines or power. All the doctors and nurses have gone abroad and the rest are waiting to go also. Our hospitals have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. More are dying from preventable diseases. Can an Uncared-for Sick person think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, there is No qualitative education, the schools has no teachers and its classrooms has no roof and its students listen to lectures through windows. Due to lack of materials and the likes, our school produces educated illiterates every year. Can a Learned Unlearned person think of something better to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, road transportation is a risky business, It is dangerous to travel on our bad roads because they are pit-of-hell and not safe. One may be killed by bad roads (road accident) or by armed robbers or even angry policemen demanding their ‘Pound of Flesh’ of Nigeria’s looted patrimony. Can a person who one of his family members is being killed on the road think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, there is no potable water; we pay Water Cooperation bills even when we have our own boreholes. The people drink any water they see; due to this, there is widespread of Cholera. The people die daily because of the dirty water they drink. Can a person who is down with Cholera (due to the water he/she drinks) think of what to do for Nigeria?
Will Nigerians think of what to do for Nigeria when they hear about Youth Corps Members who are willing to serve the Country for a year without a dime, but finds deadly reward after a life time struggle? They are brutally killed, some having their heads cut off, their bodies burnt or being raped by their host community, like what happens in the Northern part of our Beloved Country ‘NIGERIA’.
The quality of life of NIGERIANS has been reduced in terms of access to safe water, electricity, good education, basic health care facilities, EST.
Can Nigerians really think of what to do for Nigeria?
If Our Country was developed, we would all become Patriotic and we would be able to say like ‘John Fitzgerald Kennedy’ that said “Ask not what your country can do for you, rather ask what you can for your country” – Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde
Long Live Federal Republic of Nigeria!
God Bless Nigeria!!
God Bless You All!!!
Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde,
A Change Agent.
NB:
My this write-up is not to discourage Nigerians from doing something for the Country but it’s to point-out how our leaders hve failed us.
“Ask not what your country can do for you, rather ask what you can for your country” - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Ask not what “NIGERIA” can do for you, rather ask what you can do for “NIGERIA” as a Nigerian” – Oluwatomilola Kennedy Boyinde
There is no doubt that every one of us reads the above quote daily and ponders. Thinking of what to do for one’s Country is a great thing and even something we should take with Passion but we Nigerians really need to take time to ask ourselves some reflecting questions about the quote of John F. Kennedy.
Questions like; What is the interior motive of John F. Kennedy when he said it? Where did he say it? How does the surrounding looks like when he said it? What character is of the person who said the word? What has the person himself done for the Nation he said they should think of what to do for? How developed is the country of where John Fitzgerald Kennedy from? How comfortable is the citizen of the country? How developed is the minds of the leaders of his country? How have the leaders of his country impacted life into the citizens?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is an American, America‘s youngest President; he did a lot for his Beloved Country and he’s a person of a good character. I don’t need to tell you how developed America is; you already know how comfortable Americans are; we know how developed the minds of leaders of America; we know how they care for the people they serve; I need not tell you how they think about the comfort of the citizens.
Thinking of what to do for one’s Country is a great thing and even something we should take with Passion but are we Nigerians Unjustified if we do nothing for our Country considering the hardship we are today? An adage says ‘parents are the television the children watch’; my point here is not about parents and children but about we Nigerians and our Rulers (supposed leaders). Our leaders who are supposed to be of good examples are not helping matters at all; most of them are of questionable characters. They pollute the minds of the citizens with their disreputable act.
Here in NIGERIA, Our leaders fool us daily with promises and demagoguery, and believe us to be super suckers; Which is why they daily promise us good life but they’re inflicting economic hardship on us instead. Instead of delivering the ‘Dividends of Democracy’ to us, they are delivering ‘Dividends of D’em’ocracy’, they STEAL our collective money to build mansions, buy expensive jeeps and add wives and concubines to their harem. Also, they throw big parties with the most expensive drinks (Champagne, Hennessey, Vino tinto and the likes) with our money in utter merriment of their birthdays or in any ceremony. Rather than to use it to feed, clothe and educate their compatriots and provide jobs and health care for us and pay us decent salaries/wages and repair the broken infrastructures and give us at least a glimpse of the good life. With these, do you think Nigerians will ever think of what to do for Nigeria?
Section 33, Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, states that ‘The first duty of a serious government is to guarantee the security of the lives and properties of its Citizens’.
Here in NIGERIA, house owners provide layers and layers of security. All the windows are provided with burglar proofs, fences are put round the houses and on top of the fences are puts broken bottles or sharp iron, iron studs or barbwire, upon all, house owners will still employ ‘security man’ (Maigadi), all in an attempt to secure life and property to the extent that their own houses has become a semi prison-yard. In fact, we are extremely lucky in this country that the incidence of fire is very few and far between. Imagine what could have happened if fire was a regular occurrence in Nigeria, many people will fall victim to fire in their barb-wired houses. Can an In-secure person think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, the citizens are poorer, poverty is everywhere except in the houses of Nations LOOTERS; the dividends of democracy don’t trickle down to sundry all; the people are daily being killed by the violence of the poverty. Some people are crying for food, some people’s bellies are getting big while some necks are getting longer. A society that cannot help the many that are poor, but can help the few that is rich. The citizens are hapless and helpless, yet, we have a Government, the one that the people voted for. Can a hungry man think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, We pay PHCN bills despite generating our own light with the aid of Generators because there is epileptic power supply; several homes have gone without electricity supply for many months running. Where this available at all, the erratic nature of the supply which comes on and off; sometimes at an interval of 2 minutes, has been a source of anguish to many Nigerians. In this situation, several home gadgets such as TV Sets, Refrigerators, Air Conditioners and others have been blown up or damaged, some beyond repairs. Can a person who sleeps in darkness think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, things are overpriced. Lands, houses, foods, cars, est. are sold at ridiculously high prices as if they are meant for aliens and not for we the people; things are exorbitant. They are classified for the super rich; honest, growing and working people have no chance. A good life in Nigeria is so expensive and is only reserved for only a few. Can an Uncomfortable man think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, the rule of law does not exist; there is lack of due process/rule of law. There are different laws for different social class. Justice comes in hiccups. The rule of law gives way to rule of brutality and bribery. The lawmakers are the lawbreakers. Laws are only made for the poor people while the opulent lives with their wicked acts; the poor people are Voiceless. Can a Jilted Citizen think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, Parents suffer to educate their wards, but thereafter no jobs for them; more people are in the unemployment market. They’ll get to all the nooks and crannies of a city everyday, all in the name of seeking job. Can an Unemployed person think of what he/she can do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, we have hospitals without doctors, medicines or power. All the doctors and nurses have gone abroad and the rest are waiting to go also. Our hospitals have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. More are dying from preventable diseases. Can an Uncared-for Sick person think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, there is No qualitative education, the schools has no teachers and its classrooms has no roof and its students listen to lectures through windows. Due to lack of materials and the likes, our school produces educated illiterates every year. Can a Learned Unlearned person think of something better to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, road transportation is a risky business, It is dangerous to travel on our bad roads because they are pit-of-hell and not safe. One may be killed by bad roads (road accident) or by armed robbers or even angry policemen demanding their ‘Pound of Flesh’ of Nigeria’s looted patrimony. Can a person who one of his family members is being killed on the road think of what to do for Nigeria?
Here in NIGERIA, there is no potable water; we pay Water Cooperation bills even when we have our own boreholes. The people drink any water they see; due to this, there is widespread of Cholera. The people die daily because of the dirty water they drink. Can a person who is down with Cholera (due to the water he/she drinks) think of what to do for Nigeria?
Will Nigerians think of what to do for Nigeria when they hear about Youth Corps Members who are willing to serve the Country for a year without a dime, but finds deadly reward after a life time struggle? They are brutally killed, some having their heads cut off, their bodies burnt or being raped by their host community, like what happens in the Northern part of our Beloved Country ‘NIGERIA’.
The quality of life of NIGERIANS has been reduced in terms of access to safe water, electricity, good education, basic health care facilities, EST.
Can Nigerians really think of what to do for Nigeria?
If Our Country was developed, we would all become Patriotic and we would be able to say like ‘John Fitzgerald Kennedy’ that said “Ask not what your country can do for you, rather ask what you can for your country” – Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde
Long Live Federal Republic of Nigeria!
God Bless Nigeria!!
God Bless You All!!!
Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde,
A Change Agent.
NB:
My this write-up is not to discourage Nigerians from doing something for the Country but it’s to point-out how our leaders hve failed us.
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Together We Can Build Nigeria
Together We Can Build Nigeria
“Ask not what “NIGERIA” can do for you, rather ask what your can do for “NIGERIA” as a Nigerian” – Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde
“It is the Love of “NIGERIA” that has Lighted and keep Glowing the Holy Fire of Patriotism in me.” – Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde
Dear Compatriots,
Fellow Compatriots of this Great Nation (Nigeria),
I have now come to discovered and agreed that we are the only
one that can build Nigeria. So, we have to join hands together and participate in the building of Our Country by doing what we know best in moving our Nation (Nigeria) forward so that history will not pose an unable to answered question to us.
If you are a Famous Young Writer, and you do not write about the quandary of Nigerians, history will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
If you are a Prolific Young Journalist, and you say nothing about corrupt politicians who embezzle public funds, posterity will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
If you are a Flourishing Young Entrepreneur, and you do not contribute to the improvement of the lives of the destitute in Nigeria, future generations will ask: Where were you, and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
If you are a Singer, and you do not sing in defence of the downtrodden masses, history will also pose a question to you: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
If you are a Pastor that refuses to seek the face God for the betterment of Nigeria, instead, you keep praying for your own betterment (remember that the ‘betterment of a Nation is the betterment of the inhabitants’), posterity will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to deteriorate?
If you are a Teacher that teaches the Students formal education but you forget to teach them morals, future generations will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
If you a President that the people voted for, with the aim of developing the Nigeria (because they believed in you, your ability and capability that you will deliver to the downtrodden) but you got there and served your pocket, history will also pose a question to you: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to disintegrate?
It does not matter what kind of work you do, there is a role you can/must play to stop the perversion of our Country (Nigeria). Your success will mean nothing if it is not connected with the general advancement of Nigeria. Remember a quote that says “A man is not remembered for what he possessed on earth but he’s remembered for his contribution to the Development and Enlargement of his Nation and his Kindred”; our own Nation is Nigeria and our Kindred are Nigerians.
Frantz Fanon said something in ((Wretched of the Earth)) one of his books I read:
I quote; ‘…We who are citizens of the under-developed countries, we aught to seek every occasion for contacts with the rural masses; we aught never to lose contact with the people [who have] battled for [their] independence and for the concrete betterment of [their] existence.’
‘…We the Citizens of Nigeria (Developing Country), we aught to think on how to better the lives of other Citizens (be it morally or financially), we aught to think on how to contribute to the development of Nigeria, we aught to ponder what we can do to make Nigeria Great.’ Ask yourself now, How and When will I respond to Frantz Fanon’s call?
If you do not ask yourself this soul-searching question, you might find yourself unable to respond when future generations ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
Who amongst you does not blame on the government for not developing Nigeria without Greater Nation remembering the word of John Fitzgerald Kennedy that says “Let us not ask what our country should do for us, rather let us ask what we shall do for our country” and this way, I think that we will be on the right path to building a. It is not about how late we start, it is all about starting first that defines our Goal, Motive, Mission and Vision to building a Great Nation “Nigeria”. (It is not how far, but it is how well)?
Remember that ‘when you point an accusing finger (1) at someone, the remaining four (4) fingers points to you.’ Please, don’t get me wrong here, It is good to Criticize a Government that is not working, but, as you criticize, try to ask yourself this question ‘what has been my contribution to the development of my Country?’ The Government can’t provide all our needs. So, let us ask ourselves what we can do for Nigeria to make her Great. It is not about how late we start, it is all about starting first that defines our Goal, Motive, Mission and Vision to building a Great Nigeria.
I see no person better than You & I that can rescue Nigeria from trending a destructive path. I see no other person better than You & I to lead Nigeria to the Path of Greatness. I also think You & I have an immediate responsibility to halt Nigeria’s slide into Hopelessness. But when You & I do it, keep in mind that future generations will still ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate? I guess by then, we will be able to give an answer to the question.
Where were you, and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate? Will you be able to give an answer to this question when future generations ask you?
Arise, Nigeria is Calling You!
Heed to the Clarion Call!
Together We Can Build Nigeria!
Long Live You & I!
Long Live Federal Republic of Nigeria!!
God Bless Nigeria!!!
God Bless You All!
Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde,
A Change Agent.
“Ask not what “NIGERIA” can do for you, rather ask what your can do for “NIGERIA” as a Nigerian” – Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde
“It is the Love of “NIGERIA” that has Lighted and keep Glowing the Holy Fire of Patriotism in me.” – Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde
Dear Compatriots,
Fellow Compatriots of this Great Nation (Nigeria),
I have now come to discovered and agreed that we are the only
one that can build Nigeria. So, we have to join hands together and participate in the building of Our Country by doing what we know best in moving our Nation (Nigeria) forward so that history will not pose an unable to answered question to us.
If you are a Famous Young Writer, and you do not write about the quandary of Nigerians, history will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
If you are a Prolific Young Journalist, and you say nothing about corrupt politicians who embezzle public funds, posterity will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
If you are a Flourishing Young Entrepreneur, and you do not contribute to the improvement of the lives of the destitute in Nigeria, future generations will ask: Where were you, and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
If you are a Singer, and you do not sing in defence of the downtrodden masses, history will also pose a question to you: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
If you are a Pastor that refuses to seek the face God for the betterment of Nigeria, instead, you keep praying for your own betterment (remember that the ‘betterment of a Nation is the betterment of the inhabitants’), posterity will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to deteriorate?
If you are a Teacher that teaches the Students formal education but you forget to teach them morals, future generations will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
If you a President that the people voted for, with the aim of developing the Nigeria (because they believed in you, your ability and capability that you will deliver to the downtrodden) but you got there and served your pocket, history will also pose a question to you: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to disintegrate?
It does not matter what kind of work you do, there is a role you can/must play to stop the perversion of our Country (Nigeria). Your success will mean nothing if it is not connected with the general advancement of Nigeria. Remember a quote that says “A man is not remembered for what he possessed on earth but he’s remembered for his contribution to the Development and Enlargement of his Nation and his Kindred”; our own Nation is Nigeria and our Kindred are Nigerians.
Frantz Fanon said something in ((Wretched of the Earth)) one of his books I read:
I quote; ‘…We who are citizens of the under-developed countries, we aught to seek every occasion for contacts with the rural masses; we aught never to lose contact with the people [who have] battled for [their] independence and for the concrete betterment of [their] existence.’
‘…We the Citizens of Nigeria (Developing Country), we aught to think on how to better the lives of other Citizens (be it morally or financially), we aught to think on how to contribute to the development of Nigeria, we aught to ponder what we can do to make Nigeria Great.’ Ask yourself now, How and When will I respond to Frantz Fanon’s call?
If you do not ask yourself this soul-searching question, you might find yourself unable to respond when future generations ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate?
Who amongst you does not blame on the government for not developing Nigeria without Greater Nation remembering the word of John Fitzgerald Kennedy that says “Let us not ask what our country should do for us, rather let us ask what we shall do for our country” and this way, I think that we will be on the right path to building a. It is not about how late we start, it is all about starting first that defines our Goal, Motive, Mission and Vision to building a Great Nation “Nigeria”. (It is not how far, but it is how well)?
Remember that ‘when you point an accusing finger (1) at someone, the remaining four (4) fingers points to you.’ Please, don’t get me wrong here, It is good to Criticize a Government that is not working, but, as you criticize, try to ask yourself this question ‘what has been my contribution to the development of my Country?’ The Government can’t provide all our needs. So, let us ask ourselves what we can do for Nigeria to make her Great. It is not about how late we start, it is all about starting first that defines our Goal, Motive, Mission and Vision to building a Great Nigeria.
I see no person better than You & I that can rescue Nigeria from trending a destructive path. I see no other person better than You & I to lead Nigeria to the Path of Greatness. I also think You & I have an immediate responsibility to halt Nigeria’s slide into Hopelessness. But when You & I do it, keep in mind that future generations will still ask: Where were you and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate? I guess by then, we will be able to give an answer to the question.
Where were you, and what did you do when Nigeria began to degenerate? Will you be able to give an answer to this question when future generations ask you?
Arise, Nigeria is Calling You!
Heed to the Clarion Call!
Together We Can Build Nigeria!
Long Live You & I!
Long Live Federal Republic of Nigeria!!
God Bless Nigeria!!!
God Bless You All!
Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde,
A Change Agent.
Sunday, 3 July 2011
IKEJI ILE INDIGENES/PATRIOTS; A NEED FOR VISION
IKEJI ILE INDIGENES/PATRIOTS; A NEED FOR VISION
IKEJI ILE PATRIOTS; A NEED FOR VISION.
It is time for us to dream new dreams for Ikeji Ile Ijesa; Ikeji Ile Ijesa is the cradle of our birth and the temple of our progenitors. It is our Zion, our own Jerusalem here on earth. We have the human and natural resources to move her to a NEW FRONTIERS and Greater heights. What is your vision for Ikeji Ile Ijesa?
We need VISION for attainment of Ikeji Ile goals and aspirations. We need VISION for Ikeji Ile Ijesa Commonwealth and Development. We need a new humane society where there is a new social order, peace progress and prosperity. May our visions come to reality.
The Bible says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” vision is not solely a religious issue. We need vision for our Ikeji Ile Ijesa society to move forward. The world is created by divine vision. It would have not been better place for us to live, if there is no power of vision; the third eye of creativity of men and women who have contributed to civilization and modernization.
The story was told in the Bible about men who have vision and imagination, Men that built the very first skyscraper in the world (The Tower of Babel). Even God knows that there is power in their vision and imagination. “And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have one language and this they begin to do; and now nothing will restrained from them, which they imagined to do” (Genesis 11:6). I have read about the seven wonders of the ancient world and even of the hi-tech and breakthroughs of our contemporary times. They are invention of men who have power of vision.
Vision and idealism rules the world. The world is an autobiography of men and women of vision and idealism. Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs visionary and ideal patriots to move her to new frontiers and development.
Patriots can be Teachers, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Journalists, Accountants, Administrators, Politicians, Human right activists, Writers, Philanthropists, Business Men & Women, Clergy men , Farmers, Artisans, Musicians, Students or Youths etc.
Patriots are the lovers and ardent supporters of their country (home town) irrespective of their career or vocation. Patriotism is not only an emotional thing, it is a function of vision, idealism and pragmatic approach to the good of the public's’ common wealth and the country who have virtue; Patriots are altruists and not chauvinists.
Patriots are men who are honest, loyal and dedicated to the service of their fatherland. Patriots are lovers of peace, progress and prosperity of their nation and its people. Patriots are non-violent and passive resistant, but lover of justice, equity and they play the game of the society in camaraderie relationship and the spirit of sports-man ship.
Patriots are haters of violence; thuggery, egoism, corruption and anything that can undermine or injure the good of the society. Patriots are humane, welfarist, philanthropist, pious and Godly men who have vision for themselves, their neighbour, and their nation. Patriots’ ends and aims are “their country, their God’s and truth’s’.’
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs more of patriots to move her forward.
Ikeji Ile Ijesa Patriots; Arise, Ikeji Ile Ijesa is calling you!
God Bless Ikeji Ile Ijesa, A Town under God!!!
LONG LIVE IKEJI ILE IJESA!
LONG LIVE ORIADE LOCAL GOVT!
LONG LIVE IJESHA LAND!
LONG LIVE OSUN STATE!
LONG LIVE YORUBA LAND!
LONG LIVE NIGERIA!
GOD BLESS NIGERIA!!!
© Oluwatimilehin Boyinde,
G 27, Oluwaseyi House,
Odo Ipo Str, Ikeji Arakeji Road,
IKEJI ILE IJESA.
IKEJI ILE PATRIOTS; A NEED FOR VISION.
It is time for us to dream new dreams for Ikeji Ile Ijesa; Ikeji Ile Ijesa is the cradle of our birth and the temple of our progenitors. It is our Zion, our own Jerusalem here on earth. We have the human and natural resources to move her to a NEW FRONTIERS and Greater heights. What is your vision for Ikeji Ile Ijesa?
We need VISION for attainment of Ikeji Ile goals and aspirations. We need VISION for Ikeji Ile Ijesa Commonwealth and Development. We need a new humane society where there is a new social order, peace progress and prosperity. May our visions come to reality.
The Bible says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” vision is not solely a religious issue. We need vision for our Ikeji Ile Ijesa society to move forward. The world is created by divine vision. It would have not been better place for us to live, if there is no power of vision; the third eye of creativity of men and women who have contributed to civilization and modernization.
The story was told in the Bible about men who have vision and imagination, Men that built the very first skyscraper in the world (The Tower of Babel). Even God knows that there is power in their vision and imagination. “And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have one language and this they begin to do; and now nothing will restrained from them, which they imagined to do” (Genesis 11:6). I have read about the seven wonders of the ancient world and even of the hi-tech and breakthroughs of our contemporary times. They are invention of men who have power of vision.
Vision and idealism rules the world. The world is an autobiography of men and women of vision and idealism. Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs visionary and ideal patriots to move her to new frontiers and development.
Patriots can be Teachers, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Journalists, Accountants, Administrators, Politicians, Human right activists, Writers, Philanthropists, Business Men & Women, Clergy men , Farmers, Artisans, Musicians, Students or Youths etc.
Patriots are the lovers and ardent supporters of their country (home town) irrespective of their career or vocation. Patriotism is not only an emotional thing, it is a function of vision, idealism and pragmatic approach to the good of the public's’ common wealth and the country who have virtue; Patriots are altruists and not chauvinists.
Patriots are men who are honest, loyal and dedicated to the service of their fatherland. Patriots are lovers of peace, progress and prosperity of their nation and its people. Patriots are non-violent and passive resistant, but lover of justice, equity and they play the game of the society in camaraderie relationship and the spirit of sports-man ship.
Patriots are haters of violence; thuggery, egoism, corruption and anything that can undermine or injure the good of the society. Patriots are humane, welfarist, philanthropist, pious and Godly men who have vision for themselves, their neighbour, and their nation. Patriots’ ends and aims are “their country, their God’s and truth’s’.’
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs more of patriots to move her forward.
Ikeji Ile Ijesa Patriots; Arise, Ikeji Ile Ijesa is calling you!
God Bless Ikeji Ile Ijesa, A Town under God!!!
LONG LIVE IKEJI ILE IJESA!
LONG LIVE ORIADE LOCAL GOVT!
LONG LIVE IJESHA LAND!
LONG LIVE OSUN STATE!
LONG LIVE YORUBA LAND!
LONG LIVE NIGERIA!
GOD BLESS NIGERIA!!!
© Oluwatimilehin Boyinde,
G 27, Oluwaseyi House,
Odo Ipo Str, Ikeji Arakeji Road,
IKEJI ILE IJESA.
IKEJI ILE IJESA NEEDS YOU & I @ THIS CRITICAL MOMENT
IKEJI ILE IJESA NEEDS YOU & I @ THIS CRITICAL MOMENT
Heeding To The Clarion call
It is the Love of Country/Community that has Lighted and Keeps Glowing the Holy Fire of Patriotism. – J. Horace Macfarland
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to move her forward!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs people like the Biblical Joshua to raise her hands every time!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to take her to a Greater height!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to make her a haven of God-fearing people!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to put her on the Path of Greatness!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to Rescue her from the bottomless pit of Teenage Pregnancy which it has sunk!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to get the present youths living in the town Enlightened! We need to Inform the Unformed how life is being run. We need to Organise Pundit Talk Shows, Quiz, Debates, Lectures, Discussions, Round-table Conferences, Symposiums est. (like a Symposium I attended in 2005, organised by Advance Club held in Ikeji Ile Ijesa Town Hall, since then, we’ve never seen such again) not every time we should be organising party, party, party that keep aiding the rampant teenage pregnancy we are seeing in our town today. We need to witness this good old days again.
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to inform the young boys living in town that “igbo ati oti mimu, pelu sina sise” is not the best way of enjoying life. We need to tell them that thuggery is not a way of proving big boy. We need to inform the girls that flirting around loosing their human-hood integrity to just some minute’s ‘thinked’ enjoyment is not the best for them.
They need to be enlightened to make them have a Paradigm Shift in the way they think this time around; they need to be told that Teenage Pregnancy is a barricade to their Aiming goals (that is even if they have any).
They need to change their thinking that if you’re not ‘After/Plus 1(having a child)’, ‘Minus 1 (you born a baby and he/she dies)’, ‘1 Minus 1 (1-1) (you’ve terminated a pregnancy)’, 2 Minus 2 (2-2) (you’ve terminated two pregnancies)’, (and so on) that the person is not A big ‘Omo to Jasi’ girl. They need to be brainwashed!
To the both Guys and Girls living in Ikeji Ile Ijesa presently, we need to be forthright with them; we need to ask them some painstaking questions like ‘Do you want to ever remain in abject poverty? Do you want to be impoverished for life? Do you want to take back the ‘osuka ege’ your mother left (will leave)? Do you want to be the servants of your mates in other cities? Do you still want to live in a fantasy world? Of course, their answer will always be a Kapital ‘NO’, A Stagnant ‘NO’, A ‘No’ that will never be followed with Actions. Is this the set of unschooled people that will uplift Ikeji Ile Ijesa? What a pity!
Parenthesis! On our (My Dad, Prince Olusegun Ogunmokun, a.k.a SEGMOK and I) journey to Osogbo on a lovely Monday morning, bla…bla…bla…we talked about Osun State Politics all-along, when we got to a place in Ilesa, my father dropped to see someone and it remains Prince & I inside the car. We both kept quiet for some minutes, suddenly he turned to my side and asked passionately ‘ewo niwo naa n baaka (what are you also doing around)? I replied by telling him my Educational Status, he smiles and then wished me well on my desired discipline. We talked about degradation of Ikeji Ile Ijesa, we talked about the dog-like behaviour (kissing, romancing, hugging rubbing each other every night in ‘Odo Arigbo’) of the present youths living in the town, we talked about the ‘maybe’ cause of Ikeji Ile Stagnation, we charted the way forward to ‘New Ikeji Ile Ijesa.’
What brings my story is about what he said lastly, he said ‘the future of Ikeji Ile Ijesa are not those living presently there, they are those that are living in other lands, thriving, they are those that knows what the future holds.’ Let me quote what he said about the youths living in Ikeji Ile Ijesa, I quote “They don’t ever think of their future, they have no future ambition, they don’t have any goal in life, they have no goal to pursue, they don’t really aim higher, they like living an inferior life, they like to die in their plank carrying business (pako riru), they don’t have any dream to make a reality, they like living in a daydream world, they have no vision, visionless set of people, they are of no use to Ikeji Ile Ijesa, they are even useless to themselves, useless set of people.” We then continue to talk about the oscillating Pendulum in the then Osun State Gubernatorial Election Tribunal Judgement.
When I got to my destination, I sat down and think about what he said; I noticed nothing but the truth from his word. I asked myself a question that ‘is this man really right or wrong about what he said?’ My Brothers and Sisters, please help me out in answering this unanswered question. With my above emphasis about the present youths living in Ikeji Ile Ijesa, I am convinced to say that Prince Olusegun Ogunmokun is utterly right with what he said.
At this juncture, I will like to share with you my discussion with a guy in SSS3, Ikeji Ile High School. Below is the discussion;
Me: bawo laye e oni?
Him: aye mi oni daa.
Me: how is your study?
Him: a n ti (we dey push am, as if sey na truck).
Me: now that you will be leaving secondary school, what is your dream about the future? Ur aiming goals?
Him: actually I can’t say but after my secondary school, I’ll stay at home for like three years to enjoy myself jare before I think of looking for a work to learn.
Me: work to learn? Don’t you wish to further your education? Why don’t you even think of sitting for Jamb this year?
Him: my brother there is no time jare, they even say that jamb is too hard and I can’t waste my ‘don’t have money.’ (Hopelessness)
It might be funny but it’s not funny, this is what is going on in our community, they don’t think in the right direction. They need nothing but enlightenment from You & I. We need to get across to this kind of people and tell them the value of education in our society. We need to update them that this is one of the problems we have in Ikeji Ile Ijesa, the people are illiterates, and the learned don’t want to come home because they never imagined themselves associated with illiterates. They need You & I to show them the real world.
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to create a space for Progress!
An adage says “A river that forgets it source will dry up.” Forget Not Ikeji Ile Ijesa. You may be enjoying in London, Paris, Dublin, Washington D.C, even in Accra, est., please try to remember where you come from, try to sit down and make a retreat about your beginning, your contribution to the development of where you’re from. Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to contribute our own quota to her Progress and Greatness!
Don’t think only about how get money across to Mum and Dad; remember that an adage says “A rich person in the middle of 7 poor people is also a poor person.” Think of how to develop Ikeji Ile, if Ikeji Ile develops, your Mother and Father will also develop. This is a bitter truth I must say; I don’t care where it hits you. Thank God am a Truther, What about You?
Ikeji Ile Ijesa is our Zion, our own Jerusalem here on earth. This haven needs our help, let’s build it together. Let’s make an Ikeji Ile Ijesa which everyone will be proud of. Let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa which everyone of us will be free and happy to put in our hometown here on facebook (many of us here don’t put Ikeji Ile Ijesa in our hometown, even me, because we think people will see us as inferiors).
Let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa that we will be boastful of, let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa that will be smooth to say in our mouth anywhere we’re asked to introduce ourselves. Let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa that Lagosians and even Americans will be jealous of. Let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa that will be the Capital of Nigeria and even Africa (if we have).
Let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa that will be the centre-point of this country’s progress. It is You & I that recognise as Ikeji Ile Ijesa itself, it is you and I that will make ourselves great. I remember a Quote that Says “If American did not make America great, Can it be the world power? If English did not make England great, can we be hearing of their greatness today?” So therefore, it is You & I will/must make Ikeji Ile great. Together We Can Make Ikeji Ile Ijesa Great!!!
Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa can’t be great? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa can’t be the world centre-point? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa can’t be a place that the ‘Oyinbos’ will be dreaming of visiting? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa won’t grow? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa can’t turn from Village (maybe town as they do call it) to City? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa people can’t be a kind of people the world will be dieing to see?
Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa won’t be a place where this country we depend-on in the production of ‘Ege (cassava)?’ Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa won’t produce Great Men and Women? Who tells you that an Indegene of Ikeji Ile Ijesa can’t rule this country? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa Indigenes will ever remain impoverished? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa will ever remain in darkness? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa will ever remain Stagnant? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa will never progress?
Ikeji Ile Ijesa! Ikeji Ile Ijesa!! Ikeji Ile Ijesa!!! My Beloved Jerusalem!!!
Loke loke Ni ilu Ikeji Ile Ijesa a maa lo, Ase Ooo…!
Above all, Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs Our Prayers!
The Dry Bones of Ikeji Ile Ijesa Shall Rise Again!
Arise, Ikeji Ile Ijesa is calling you!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I at this critical moment!
Heed to the Clarion’s call!
Its time for a call to duty!
I will like to drop my articulate pen here because my fingers are already aching, when next am inspired to write about Ikeji Ile Ijesa, I will do just that. Ikeji Ile Ijesa must/will progress during this our own generation.
God Bless Ikeji Ile Ijesa!!!
© Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde,
E3, Boyinde’s Compound,
Oke Oja / Odo Ipo Street,
Ikeji Arakeji Road,
Ikeji Ile Ijesa.
Heeding To The Clarion call
It is the Love of Country/Community that has Lighted and Keeps Glowing the Holy Fire of Patriotism. – J. Horace Macfarland
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to move her forward!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs people like the Biblical Joshua to raise her hands every time!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to take her to a Greater height!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to make her a haven of God-fearing people!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to put her on the Path of Greatness!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to Rescue her from the bottomless pit of Teenage Pregnancy which it has sunk!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to get the present youths living in the town Enlightened! We need to Inform the Unformed how life is being run. We need to Organise Pundit Talk Shows, Quiz, Debates, Lectures, Discussions, Round-table Conferences, Symposiums est. (like a Symposium I attended in 2005, organised by Advance Club held in Ikeji Ile Ijesa Town Hall, since then, we’ve never seen such again) not every time we should be organising party, party, party that keep aiding the rampant teenage pregnancy we are seeing in our town today. We need to witness this good old days again.
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to inform the young boys living in town that “igbo ati oti mimu, pelu sina sise” is not the best way of enjoying life. We need to tell them that thuggery is not a way of proving big boy. We need to inform the girls that flirting around loosing their human-hood integrity to just some minute’s ‘thinked’ enjoyment is not the best for them.
They need to be enlightened to make them have a Paradigm Shift in the way they think this time around; they need to be told that Teenage Pregnancy is a barricade to their Aiming goals (that is even if they have any).
They need to change their thinking that if you’re not ‘After/Plus 1(having a child)’, ‘Minus 1 (you born a baby and he/she dies)’, ‘1 Minus 1 (1-1) (you’ve terminated a pregnancy)’, 2 Minus 2 (2-2) (you’ve terminated two pregnancies)’, (and so on) that the person is not A big ‘Omo to Jasi’ girl. They need to be brainwashed!
To the both Guys and Girls living in Ikeji Ile Ijesa presently, we need to be forthright with them; we need to ask them some painstaking questions like ‘Do you want to ever remain in abject poverty? Do you want to be impoverished for life? Do you want to take back the ‘osuka ege’ your mother left (will leave)? Do you want to be the servants of your mates in other cities? Do you still want to live in a fantasy world? Of course, their answer will always be a Kapital ‘NO’, A Stagnant ‘NO’, A ‘No’ that will never be followed with Actions. Is this the set of unschooled people that will uplift Ikeji Ile Ijesa? What a pity!
Parenthesis! On our (My Dad, Prince Olusegun Ogunmokun, a.k.a SEGMOK and I) journey to Osogbo on a lovely Monday morning, bla…bla…bla…we talked about Osun State Politics all-along, when we got to a place in Ilesa, my father dropped to see someone and it remains Prince & I inside the car. We both kept quiet for some minutes, suddenly he turned to my side and asked passionately ‘ewo niwo naa n baaka (what are you also doing around)? I replied by telling him my Educational Status, he smiles and then wished me well on my desired discipline. We talked about degradation of Ikeji Ile Ijesa, we talked about the dog-like behaviour (kissing, romancing, hugging rubbing each other every night in ‘Odo Arigbo’) of the present youths living in the town, we talked about the ‘maybe’ cause of Ikeji Ile Stagnation, we charted the way forward to ‘New Ikeji Ile Ijesa.’
What brings my story is about what he said lastly, he said ‘the future of Ikeji Ile Ijesa are not those living presently there, they are those that are living in other lands, thriving, they are those that knows what the future holds.’ Let me quote what he said about the youths living in Ikeji Ile Ijesa, I quote “They don’t ever think of their future, they have no future ambition, they don’t have any goal in life, they have no goal to pursue, they don’t really aim higher, they like living an inferior life, they like to die in their plank carrying business (pako riru), they don’t have any dream to make a reality, they like living in a daydream world, they have no vision, visionless set of people, they are of no use to Ikeji Ile Ijesa, they are even useless to themselves, useless set of people.” We then continue to talk about the oscillating Pendulum in the then Osun State Gubernatorial Election Tribunal Judgement.
When I got to my destination, I sat down and think about what he said; I noticed nothing but the truth from his word. I asked myself a question that ‘is this man really right or wrong about what he said?’ My Brothers and Sisters, please help me out in answering this unanswered question. With my above emphasis about the present youths living in Ikeji Ile Ijesa, I am convinced to say that Prince Olusegun Ogunmokun is utterly right with what he said.
At this juncture, I will like to share with you my discussion with a guy in SSS3, Ikeji Ile High School. Below is the discussion;
Me: bawo laye e oni?
Him: aye mi oni daa.
Me: how is your study?
Him: a n ti (we dey push am, as if sey na truck).
Me: now that you will be leaving secondary school, what is your dream about the future? Ur aiming goals?
Him: actually I can’t say but after my secondary school, I’ll stay at home for like three years to enjoy myself jare before I think of looking for a work to learn.
Me: work to learn? Don’t you wish to further your education? Why don’t you even think of sitting for Jamb this year?
Him: my brother there is no time jare, they even say that jamb is too hard and I can’t waste my ‘don’t have money.’ (Hopelessness)
It might be funny but it’s not funny, this is what is going on in our community, they don’t think in the right direction. They need nothing but enlightenment from You & I. We need to get across to this kind of people and tell them the value of education in our society. We need to update them that this is one of the problems we have in Ikeji Ile Ijesa, the people are illiterates, and the learned don’t want to come home because they never imagined themselves associated with illiterates. They need You & I to show them the real world.
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to create a space for Progress!
An adage says “A river that forgets it source will dry up.” Forget Not Ikeji Ile Ijesa. You may be enjoying in London, Paris, Dublin, Washington D.C, even in Accra, est., please try to remember where you come from, try to sit down and make a retreat about your beginning, your contribution to the development of where you’re from. Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I to contribute our own quota to her Progress and Greatness!
Don’t think only about how get money across to Mum and Dad; remember that an adage says “A rich person in the middle of 7 poor people is also a poor person.” Think of how to develop Ikeji Ile, if Ikeji Ile develops, your Mother and Father will also develop. This is a bitter truth I must say; I don’t care where it hits you. Thank God am a Truther, What about You?
Ikeji Ile Ijesa is our Zion, our own Jerusalem here on earth. This haven needs our help, let’s build it together. Let’s make an Ikeji Ile Ijesa which everyone will be proud of. Let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa which everyone of us will be free and happy to put in our hometown here on facebook (many of us here don’t put Ikeji Ile Ijesa in our hometown, even me, because we think people will see us as inferiors).
Let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa that we will be boastful of, let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa that will be smooth to say in our mouth anywhere we’re asked to introduce ourselves. Let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa that Lagosians and even Americans will be jealous of. Let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa that will be the Capital of Nigeria and even Africa (if we have).
Let’s build an Ikeji Ile Ijesa that will be the centre-point of this country’s progress. It is You & I that recognise as Ikeji Ile Ijesa itself, it is you and I that will make ourselves great. I remember a Quote that Says “If American did not make America great, Can it be the world power? If English did not make England great, can we be hearing of their greatness today?” So therefore, it is You & I will/must make Ikeji Ile great. Together We Can Make Ikeji Ile Ijesa Great!!!
Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa can’t be great? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa can’t be the world centre-point? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa can’t be a place that the ‘Oyinbos’ will be dreaming of visiting? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa won’t grow? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa can’t turn from Village (maybe town as they do call it) to City? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa people can’t be a kind of people the world will be dieing to see?
Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa won’t be a place where this country we depend-on in the production of ‘Ege (cassava)?’ Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa won’t produce Great Men and Women? Who tells you that an Indegene of Ikeji Ile Ijesa can’t rule this country? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa Indigenes will ever remain impoverished? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa will ever remain in darkness? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa will ever remain Stagnant? Who tells you that Ikeji Ile Ijesa will never progress?
Ikeji Ile Ijesa! Ikeji Ile Ijesa!! Ikeji Ile Ijesa!!! My Beloved Jerusalem!!!
Loke loke Ni ilu Ikeji Ile Ijesa a maa lo, Ase Ooo…!
Above all, Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs Our Prayers!
The Dry Bones of Ikeji Ile Ijesa Shall Rise Again!
Arise, Ikeji Ile Ijesa is calling you!
Ikeji Ile Ijesa needs You & I at this critical moment!
Heed to the Clarion’s call!
Its time for a call to duty!
I will like to drop my articulate pen here because my fingers are already aching, when next am inspired to write about Ikeji Ile Ijesa, I will do just that. Ikeji Ile Ijesa must/will progress during this our own generation.
God Bless Ikeji Ile Ijesa!!!
© Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde,
E3, Boyinde’s Compound,
Oke Oja / Odo Ipo Street,
Ikeji Arakeji Road,
Ikeji Ile Ijesa.
Where Were You & What Did You Do When Ikeji Ile Ijesa Began To Degenerate?
Where Were You & What Did You Do When Ikeji Ile Ijesa Began To Degenerate?
Dear Indigenes!
Fellow Indigene of this Great Community (Ikeji Ile Ijesa),
I have now come to discovered and agreed that we are the only
one that can build Ikeji Ile Ijesa. So, we have to join hands together and participate in the building of Ikeji Ile Ijesa by doing what we know best in moving our Jerusalem (Ikeji Ile Ijesa) forward so that history will not pose an unable to answered question to us.
If you are a famous young writer, and you do not write about the quandary of Ikeji Ile Ijesa Indigenes, history will ask: Where were you, and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
If you are a prolific young journalist, and you say nothing about corrupt politicians who shares the money for the development of Ikeji Ile Ijesa, posterity will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
If you are a flourishing young entrepreneur, and you do not contribute to the improvement of the lives of the destitute in Ikeji Ile Ijesa, future generations will ask: Where were you, and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
If you are a singer, and you do not sing in defence of the downtrodden in Ikeji Ile Ijesa, history will also pose a question to you: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
If you are a pastor that refuses to seek the face God for the betterment of Ikeji Ile Ijesa, instead, you keep praying for your self-interest (remember that the ‘betterment of Jerusalem is the betterment of the Jews’), posterity will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to deteriorate?
If you are a teacher that teaches the student formal education but you forget to teach them morals, future generations will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
If you a Councillor that the people voted for, with the aim of developing the community (because they believed in you, your ability and capability that you will deliver to the downtrodden) but you got there and served your pocket, history will also pose a question to you: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to disintegrate?
It does not matter what kind of work you do, there is a role you can/must play to stop the perversion of our Jerusalem (Ikeji Ile Ijesa). Your success will mean nothing if it is not connected with the general advancement of Ikeji Ile Ijesa. Remember a quote that says “A man is not remembered for what he possessed on earth but he’s remembered for his contribution to the Development and Enlargement of his Nation/Community and his Kindred”; our own Community is Ikeji Ile Ijesa and our Kindred are the people in Ikeji Ile Ijesa.
Frantz Fanon said something in ((Wretched of the Earth)) one of his books I read:
I quote; ‘…We who are citizens of the under-developed countries, we aught to seek every occasion for contacts with the rural masses; we aught never to lose contact with the people [who have] battled for [their] independence and for the concrete betterment of [their] existence.’
Extracting my point out of the quote;
‘…We the natives/indigenes of Ikeji Ile Ijesa, we aught to think on how to better the lives of other indigenes (be it morally or financially), we aught to think on how to contribute to the development of Ikeji Ile Ijesa, we aught to ponder what we can do to make Ikeji Ile Ijesa Great.’ Ask yourself now, How and When will I respond to Frantz Fanon’s call?
If you do not ask yourself this soul-searching question, you might find yourself unable to respond when future generations ask: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
Who amongst you does not blame on the government for not developing Nigeria without remembering the word of John Fitzgerald Kennedy that says “Let us not ask what our country should do for us, rather let us ask what we shall do for our country” and this way, I think that we will be on the right path to building a greater nation. It is not about how late we start, it is all about starting first that defines our goal, motive, mission and vision to building a great nation “Nigeria”. (It is not how far, but it is how well)? Remember that ‘when you point an accusing finger at someone, the remaining four (4) points to you.’ Please, don’t get me wrong here, It is good to Criticize a Government that is not working, but, as you criticize, try to ask yourself this question ‘what has been my contribution to the development of my Community?’ The Government can’t provide all our needs. So, let us ask ourselves what we can do for Ikeji Ile Ijesa to make her Great. It is not about how late we start, it is all about starting first that defines our goal, motive, mission and vision to building a great Ikeji Ile Ijesa.
I see no person better than You & I to rescue our town from ignorance (which is poverty, poverty of idea) on the side of Ikeji Ile Ijesa based youths. I see no other group of young people better than You & I to lead Ikeji Ile Ijesa to the Path of Greatness. I also think You & I have an immediate responsibility to halt Ikeji Ile Ijesa’s slide into hopelessness. But when You & I do it, keep in mind that future generations will still ask: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate? I guess by then, we will be able to give an answer to the question.
Where were you, and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate? Will you be able to give an answer to this question when future generations ask you?
Thank you very much!
May Peace Be With You All (Amen)!
Together We Can Build Ikeji Ile Ijesa!
God Bless Ikeji Ile Ijesa!!
God Bless You All!!!
© Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde,
E3/G27, Boyinde’s Compound,
Oke Oja/Odo Ipo Street,
Ikeji Arakeji Road,
Ikeji Ile Ijesa.
Dear Indigenes!
Fellow Indigene of this Great Community (Ikeji Ile Ijesa),
I have now come to discovered and agreed that we are the only
one that can build Ikeji Ile Ijesa. So, we have to join hands together and participate in the building of Ikeji Ile Ijesa by doing what we know best in moving our Jerusalem (Ikeji Ile Ijesa) forward so that history will not pose an unable to answered question to us.
If you are a famous young writer, and you do not write about the quandary of Ikeji Ile Ijesa Indigenes, history will ask: Where were you, and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
If you are a prolific young journalist, and you say nothing about corrupt politicians who shares the money for the development of Ikeji Ile Ijesa, posterity will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
If you are a flourishing young entrepreneur, and you do not contribute to the improvement of the lives of the destitute in Ikeji Ile Ijesa, future generations will ask: Where were you, and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
If you are a singer, and you do not sing in defence of the downtrodden in Ikeji Ile Ijesa, history will also pose a question to you: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
If you are a pastor that refuses to seek the face God for the betterment of Ikeji Ile Ijesa, instead, you keep praying for your self-interest (remember that the ‘betterment of Jerusalem is the betterment of the Jews’), posterity will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to deteriorate?
If you are a teacher that teaches the student formal education but you forget to teach them morals, future generations will ask: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
If you a Councillor that the people voted for, with the aim of developing the community (because they believed in you, your ability and capability that you will deliver to the downtrodden) but you got there and served your pocket, history will also pose a question to you: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to disintegrate?
It does not matter what kind of work you do, there is a role you can/must play to stop the perversion of our Jerusalem (Ikeji Ile Ijesa). Your success will mean nothing if it is not connected with the general advancement of Ikeji Ile Ijesa. Remember a quote that says “A man is not remembered for what he possessed on earth but he’s remembered for his contribution to the Development and Enlargement of his Nation/Community and his Kindred”; our own Community is Ikeji Ile Ijesa and our Kindred are the people in Ikeji Ile Ijesa.
Frantz Fanon said something in ((Wretched of the Earth)) one of his books I read:
I quote; ‘…We who are citizens of the under-developed countries, we aught to seek every occasion for contacts with the rural masses; we aught never to lose contact with the people [who have] battled for [their] independence and for the concrete betterment of [their] existence.’
Extracting my point out of the quote;
‘…We the natives/indigenes of Ikeji Ile Ijesa, we aught to think on how to better the lives of other indigenes (be it morally or financially), we aught to think on how to contribute to the development of Ikeji Ile Ijesa, we aught to ponder what we can do to make Ikeji Ile Ijesa Great.’ Ask yourself now, How and When will I respond to Frantz Fanon’s call?
If you do not ask yourself this soul-searching question, you might find yourself unable to respond when future generations ask: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate?
Who amongst you does not blame on the government for not developing Nigeria without remembering the word of John Fitzgerald Kennedy that says “Let us not ask what our country should do for us, rather let us ask what we shall do for our country” and this way, I think that we will be on the right path to building a greater nation. It is not about how late we start, it is all about starting first that defines our goal, motive, mission and vision to building a great nation “Nigeria”. (It is not how far, but it is how well)? Remember that ‘when you point an accusing finger at someone, the remaining four (4) points to you.’ Please, don’t get me wrong here, It is good to Criticize a Government that is not working, but, as you criticize, try to ask yourself this question ‘what has been my contribution to the development of my Community?’ The Government can’t provide all our needs. So, let us ask ourselves what we can do for Ikeji Ile Ijesa to make her Great. It is not about how late we start, it is all about starting first that defines our goal, motive, mission and vision to building a great Ikeji Ile Ijesa.
I see no person better than You & I to rescue our town from ignorance (which is poverty, poverty of idea) on the side of Ikeji Ile Ijesa based youths. I see no other group of young people better than You & I to lead Ikeji Ile Ijesa to the Path of Greatness. I also think You & I have an immediate responsibility to halt Ikeji Ile Ijesa’s slide into hopelessness. But when You & I do it, keep in mind that future generations will still ask: Where were you and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate? I guess by then, we will be able to give an answer to the question.
Where were you, and what did you do when Ikeji Ile Ijesa began to degenerate? Will you be able to give an answer to this question when future generations ask you?
Thank you very much!
May Peace Be With You All (Amen)!
Together We Can Build Ikeji Ile Ijesa!
God Bless Ikeji Ile Ijesa!!
God Bless You All!!!
© Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde,
E3/G27, Boyinde’s Compound,
Oke Oja/Odo Ipo Street,
Ikeji Arakeji Road,
Ikeji Ile Ijesa.
Why Our Generation Can’t Wait!
Juvenile Generation!
Our Generation must get to that long awaited ‘Promise Land’ but we must take steps out of this ‘Waste Land.’
Our Generation can’t wait anymore because we want A Boyinde ( Ba’Oyinde, ‘Oyin means ‘Good New’, So, Boyinde means ‘to Come with Good News’) Generation! – Oluwatomilola Kennedy omo Boyinde (BKO). A GoodNews Generation!
.....we've waited for too long for the "dividends of democracy" to TRICKLE DOWN on all and sundry and OUR GENERATION can't wait no more.........! - Gbolahan Olubowale (Gbola Bowale X) MSW, President & CEO, Nigeria & Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc.
There is CHANGE hanging in the air...I can smell its energy and fell its smell. It's in the not distant future (Our Generation). It's Inevitable and Incorruptible. This CHANGE shall HIT this CONTINENT (Africa) and shake its COUNTRIES. No one knows when but I sense it's NOW! This is Why We Can’t Wait! - Abeku Adams
This CHANGE is always with us and has been since1960. It is just that we were not ready to romance with it, but now as Bob Marley once said “It is high time we emancipated ourselves from Mental Slavery, nobody can set us free but our Minds”. So, my Generation can’t wait any more because we want to Emancipate ourselves from Mental Slavery, Political Slavery and also Civilian Dictatorship. - Babatunde Idowu Ebenezeri
Our Generation is a Generation that concur with the word of Mahatma Ghandi that says “…the emancipation of humanity can never be permanently halted. It can be temporarily, forcibly, or otherwise adjourned. But it can never be everlastingly arrested. Emancipation is the freeing of people from the covert or overt conditions of constraint, imposed by others, which limit the ability of people to develop their capacities and talents to the full, individually or collectively. It means equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state, equality before the law, regardless of religion, property, and other private characteristics of individual persons. Emancipation also carries in its meaning in tolerance and equality of otherness. For it to find its fuller scope it requires the acknowledgement and coexistence of difference, free association, social interpretation and above all equality.” A Liberated Generation!
We can’t wait again to remain Stagnant, its time to move this Country to a Greater height. Our Generation wants to build a Nigeria (not Nai’jiriya’) that everybody will be proud of, A Generation that will build a ‘New Nigeria’ without greed that we have been yarning for, A Generation that will make ‘Nigeria’ a better place to live. A Well-being Generation!
Our Generation can’t wait like this Wasted Generation has waited and Stagnation has been their portion. Our Generation is a Progressing Generation and there is no more time for Progression in Stagnation and even Retrogression, A Generation that will stop the Under Development, Mass Impoverishment, Kleptomania, Stagnation, e.t.c, in Nigeria. A Moving Generation!
Our Generation is a Generation that want to build a Nigeria where there will be Satisfaction of Basic Necessities; Food for the People, Bread for the Hungry, Jobs for the Unemployed and Land for the Peasants. There will be Improvement instead of Impoverishment. A Generation that will banish, even sentence Poverty to life Imprisonment. A Blessed Generation!
Our Generation is that Generation that we use the Permutation and Combination method to Subtract ‘Corruption’ which has progressed from Arithmetic Progression to Geometric Progression in this Country and reduce it to Zero Unity. A Generation that will stop Corruption at all level, A Generation that will put a stop to a Nation where Corruption has been Institutionalized. An Honest Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will put an end to Official corruption & Corrupt Practices, A Generation that will create a “Nigeria” where Public Servants at every level serve the public and not their own pockets, A Generation that will change our Characters, Behaviours and our Mentality towards Corruption. A Well-Behaved, Well-Bred, Well-Mannered, Refined, Distinguished (Boyinde Family) Generation! A Best-Ever Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will create a Nigeria where crime does not daily threaten our Lives and Possessions, A Generation that will build a ‘Secured Nigeria’ where there will be security for every Citizens and they will be able to have Rest of Mind and sleep with their two eyes closed, A Secured Generation!
Our Generation is a Generation that will make a Jerry Rawlings Revolution. A Generation that will make all eaters vomit what they have eaten. A Generation that will believe in the ‘rule of law’, A Generation that will make all those who trample on the face of the ‘rule of law’ have their comeuppance, A Generation that will make ‘Egalitarianism’ a ‘Watchword’. A Generation that will Stand on Justice and Equity. A God-fearing Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will make the Citizens have a rethink and say with their mouth again that “Honesty is the Best Policy.” A Generation that we make people believe again that Good Name is better than Money and Gold. A Reasoned Generation!
• Our Generation is the Generation that will bring a Government that will exist solely for the Welfare of the People. A Government irrevocably Committed to the Development of every Stratum of our Community. A Government that will Unlock the Dormant Potentials in the People. A Government which will be an Unusual Government and the Citizens will be Boastful of. A Committed Generation!
Our Generation is a Motivating Generation. A Generation that will bring a new ‘style of leadership’, a leadership that will Empower and Motivate People to solve problems within their own Communities. A Motivational Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will turn around the quote that says “It seems that politics here in Nigeria has been transformed into its opposite. Instead of a way of solving problems, politics has often become a problem itself. Instead of improving people’s lives, it is claiming lives” A Live-Sheltered Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will make Democracy work. A Generation that will make Democracy be all about Service Delivery and not the Emasculation and Suffocation that we have today. A Generation that will create a Paradigm Shift in the way we think by bringing a new thinking, the right thinking, for a right direction. Our Generation is the Generation that will practice Democracy in full, A Generation that will turn the present Regression State of our Democracy to Progression State. A Progressive Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will reform the Nigeria Police Force and cleanse it break the bound of the historical knack for Corruption, Inconsistency, Torture, Blackmail, Armed Robbery, Suppression, Oppression, Repression, Extortion, Intimidation, Murder and a lot more. Here comes the Generation that will clear the Aegean Tube. An Unblemished Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that can/will overcome the Bogeys of Mindless Corruption, Sectionalism, Ethnicity, Religious, Bigotry, Self-serving Politics of Intolerance and Lack of Commitment to National Ideas. A Conqueror Generation!
Enough is Enough! Nigeria needs not to be treated like Puppets anymore. It is time to have a Prudent, Transparent, and Dedicated Leaders to lead Our Dear Nation Nigeria to the Long Awaited Promise Land. Nigeria needs fresh people with fresh and refreshing ideas at the helm of its affairs and Our Generation will be that Generation that will bring along this kind of Leaders. A Right Thinking Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will remove the Name of Nigeria from the List of the Failed States. A Generation that will make everything work. A Generation that will provide Social Infrastructures; there will be provision of Electricity 24/7 (A Generation that will move Nigeria out of darkness into light. Let there be Light, Jesus Proclaimed), Water (taps will run), Hospitals will be equipped (Our wives will be able to give birth safely. Even if they like, they can give birth twice or thrice a day because of the provision of a Dependable and Accessible Health Services), Recreational Centres for the young and old, Schools with well -equipped Sophisticated materials and many more. A Boyinde ( Ba’Oyinde, ‘Oyin means ‘Good New’, So, Boyinde means ‘to Come with Good News’) Generation!
We’ve waited enough for a Better Education but all we’ve seen is ‘abe igi, owo yin lo jewa logun& bowowo’ style of education, which has put our Educational Sector in shambles, A Generation that will make the Educational Sector to have a good run. A Learned Generation!
Our Generation can’t afford to wait in this Blood Bleeding Land that will soon perish like Sodom and Gomorrah if we don’t turn a new leaf, A Generation that will stop the illegal killings in the Northern part of this Country, A Generation that will put an end to Boko Haram Bombing Series, A Generation that will stop the killing of innocent people, A Generation that will have respect for human lives. A Peace-loving Generation!
Our Generation will be a Generation that will preach ‘Love and Unity’ instead of planting ‘seeds of discord’ in the Nation, A Generation that will seek for Peace to end the barbarism of the privileged few-breaking Our Virgin Foals Roughshod. A Loving Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will rescue Nigeria from the Bottomless pit of Hopelessness into which it has sunk. A Rescuing Generation!
Our Generation is a Generation that will devote Time and Energy to Diagnose and solve the problems of the Country. A Workaholic Generation!
Our Generation is that Generation that won’t let the ‘Labour of our Heroes Past be in Vain’. A Restoration Generation!
Our Generation is that Generation that will return our ‘beloved Country’ “Nigeria” to the Path of Greatness. A Great Generation!
We can’t wait because we’ve waited enough!!!
TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE is in OUR GENERATION ….and we don’t have time on our side anymore as we have callously and prodigally WASTED the last 50 Better Forgotten YEARS and we can’t let the coming YEARS be WASTED - Gbola Bowale X, President & CEO, Nigeria & Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc.
Here Comes The God Sent Generation !
Join the Train that will bring that Generation that is ready to make “A NEW NIGERIA” Possible.
The Train that will bring this Generation is ready to take off and Now is the right time for you to join the “TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAIN” that may Land in Nigeria Come 2015!
Are You Ready To Join The “TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAIN” today? Procrastinate Not, Today is the right day for you to join the “Transformational Train” so that you won’t Waste with this Wasted Generation because tomorrow might be too late.
This is Time for us (YOUTHS) to rule this Great Nation “NIGERIA”. As long as we are given the chance to ‘rule’, I believe there will be a “LANDMARK CHANGE.” – Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde
WATCHOUT …!!!
Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde,
A Change Agent.
Our Generation must get to that long awaited ‘Promise Land’ but we must take steps out of this ‘Waste Land.’
Our Generation can’t wait anymore because we want A Boyinde ( Ba’Oyinde, ‘Oyin means ‘Good New’, So, Boyinde means ‘to Come with Good News’) Generation! – Oluwatomilola Kennedy omo Boyinde (BKO). A GoodNews Generation!
.....we've waited for too long for the "dividends of democracy" to TRICKLE DOWN on all and sundry and OUR GENERATION can't wait no more.........! - Gbolahan Olubowale (Gbola Bowale X) MSW, President & CEO, Nigeria & Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc.
There is CHANGE hanging in the air...I can smell its energy and fell its smell. It's in the not distant future (Our Generation). It's Inevitable and Incorruptible. This CHANGE shall HIT this CONTINENT (Africa) and shake its COUNTRIES. No one knows when but I sense it's NOW! This is Why We Can’t Wait! - Abeku Adams
This CHANGE is always with us and has been since1960. It is just that we were not ready to romance with it, but now as Bob Marley once said “It is high time we emancipated ourselves from Mental Slavery, nobody can set us free but our Minds”. So, my Generation can’t wait any more because we want to Emancipate ourselves from Mental Slavery, Political Slavery and also Civilian Dictatorship. - Babatunde Idowu Ebenezeri
Our Generation is a Generation that concur with the word of Mahatma Ghandi that says “…the emancipation of humanity can never be permanently halted. It can be temporarily, forcibly, or otherwise adjourned. But it can never be everlastingly arrested. Emancipation is the freeing of people from the covert or overt conditions of constraint, imposed by others, which limit the ability of people to develop their capacities and talents to the full, individually or collectively. It means equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state, equality before the law, regardless of religion, property, and other private characteristics of individual persons. Emancipation also carries in its meaning in tolerance and equality of otherness. For it to find its fuller scope it requires the acknowledgement and coexistence of difference, free association, social interpretation and above all equality.” A Liberated Generation!
We can’t wait again to remain Stagnant, its time to move this Country to a Greater height. Our Generation wants to build a Nigeria (not Nai’jiriya’) that everybody will be proud of, A Generation that will build a ‘New Nigeria’ without greed that we have been yarning for, A Generation that will make ‘Nigeria’ a better place to live. A Well-being Generation!
Our Generation can’t wait like this Wasted Generation has waited and Stagnation has been their portion. Our Generation is a Progressing Generation and there is no more time for Progression in Stagnation and even Retrogression, A Generation that will stop the Under Development, Mass Impoverishment, Kleptomania, Stagnation, e.t.c, in Nigeria. A Moving Generation!
Our Generation is a Generation that want to build a Nigeria where there will be Satisfaction of Basic Necessities; Food for the People, Bread for the Hungry, Jobs for the Unemployed and Land for the Peasants. There will be Improvement instead of Impoverishment. A Generation that will banish, even sentence Poverty to life Imprisonment. A Blessed Generation!
Our Generation is that Generation that we use the Permutation and Combination method to Subtract ‘Corruption’ which has progressed from Arithmetic Progression to Geometric Progression in this Country and reduce it to Zero Unity. A Generation that will stop Corruption at all level, A Generation that will put a stop to a Nation where Corruption has been Institutionalized. An Honest Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will put an end to Official corruption & Corrupt Practices, A Generation that will create a “Nigeria” where Public Servants at every level serve the public and not their own pockets, A Generation that will change our Characters, Behaviours and our Mentality towards Corruption. A Well-Behaved, Well-Bred, Well-Mannered, Refined, Distinguished (Boyinde Family) Generation! A Best-Ever Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will create a Nigeria where crime does not daily threaten our Lives and Possessions, A Generation that will build a ‘Secured Nigeria’ where there will be security for every Citizens and they will be able to have Rest of Mind and sleep with their two eyes closed, A Secured Generation!
Our Generation is a Generation that will make a Jerry Rawlings Revolution. A Generation that will make all eaters vomit what they have eaten. A Generation that will believe in the ‘rule of law’, A Generation that will make all those who trample on the face of the ‘rule of law’ have their comeuppance, A Generation that will make ‘Egalitarianism’ a ‘Watchword’. A Generation that will Stand on Justice and Equity. A God-fearing Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will make the Citizens have a rethink and say with their mouth again that “Honesty is the Best Policy.” A Generation that we make people believe again that Good Name is better than Money and Gold. A Reasoned Generation!
• Our Generation is the Generation that will bring a Government that will exist solely for the Welfare of the People. A Government irrevocably Committed to the Development of every Stratum of our Community. A Government that will Unlock the Dormant Potentials in the People. A Government which will be an Unusual Government and the Citizens will be Boastful of. A Committed Generation!
Our Generation is a Motivating Generation. A Generation that will bring a new ‘style of leadership’, a leadership that will Empower and Motivate People to solve problems within their own Communities. A Motivational Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will turn around the quote that says “It seems that politics here in Nigeria has been transformed into its opposite. Instead of a way of solving problems, politics has often become a problem itself. Instead of improving people’s lives, it is claiming lives” A Live-Sheltered Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will make Democracy work. A Generation that will make Democracy be all about Service Delivery and not the Emasculation and Suffocation that we have today. A Generation that will create a Paradigm Shift in the way we think by bringing a new thinking, the right thinking, for a right direction. Our Generation is the Generation that will practice Democracy in full, A Generation that will turn the present Regression State of our Democracy to Progression State. A Progressive Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will reform the Nigeria Police Force and cleanse it break the bound of the historical knack for Corruption, Inconsistency, Torture, Blackmail, Armed Robbery, Suppression, Oppression, Repression, Extortion, Intimidation, Murder and a lot more. Here comes the Generation that will clear the Aegean Tube. An Unblemished Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that can/will overcome the Bogeys of Mindless Corruption, Sectionalism, Ethnicity, Religious, Bigotry, Self-serving Politics of Intolerance and Lack of Commitment to National Ideas. A Conqueror Generation!
Enough is Enough! Nigeria needs not to be treated like Puppets anymore. It is time to have a Prudent, Transparent, and Dedicated Leaders to lead Our Dear Nation Nigeria to the Long Awaited Promise Land. Nigeria needs fresh people with fresh and refreshing ideas at the helm of its affairs and Our Generation will be that Generation that will bring along this kind of Leaders. A Right Thinking Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will remove the Name of Nigeria from the List of the Failed States. A Generation that will make everything work. A Generation that will provide Social Infrastructures; there will be provision of Electricity 24/7 (A Generation that will move Nigeria out of darkness into light. Let there be Light, Jesus Proclaimed), Water (taps will run), Hospitals will be equipped (Our wives will be able to give birth safely. Even if they like, they can give birth twice or thrice a day because of the provision of a Dependable and Accessible Health Services), Recreational Centres for the young and old, Schools with well -equipped Sophisticated materials and many more. A Boyinde ( Ba’Oyinde, ‘Oyin means ‘Good New’, So, Boyinde means ‘to Come with Good News’) Generation!
We’ve waited enough for a Better Education but all we’ve seen is ‘abe igi, owo yin lo jewa logun& bowowo’ style of education, which has put our Educational Sector in shambles, A Generation that will make the Educational Sector to have a good run. A Learned Generation!
Our Generation can’t afford to wait in this Blood Bleeding Land that will soon perish like Sodom and Gomorrah if we don’t turn a new leaf, A Generation that will stop the illegal killings in the Northern part of this Country, A Generation that will put an end to Boko Haram Bombing Series, A Generation that will stop the killing of innocent people, A Generation that will have respect for human lives. A Peace-loving Generation!
Our Generation will be a Generation that will preach ‘Love and Unity’ instead of planting ‘seeds of discord’ in the Nation, A Generation that will seek for Peace to end the barbarism of the privileged few-breaking Our Virgin Foals Roughshod. A Loving Generation!
Our Generation is the Generation that will rescue Nigeria from the Bottomless pit of Hopelessness into which it has sunk. A Rescuing Generation!
Our Generation is a Generation that will devote Time and Energy to Diagnose and solve the problems of the Country. A Workaholic Generation!
Our Generation is that Generation that won’t let the ‘Labour of our Heroes Past be in Vain’. A Restoration Generation!
Our Generation is that Generation that will return our ‘beloved Country’ “Nigeria” to the Path of Greatness. A Great Generation!
We can’t wait because we’ve waited enough!!!
TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE is in OUR GENERATION ….and we don’t have time on our side anymore as we have callously and prodigally WASTED the last 50 Better Forgotten YEARS and we can’t let the coming YEARS be WASTED - Gbola Bowale X, President & CEO, Nigeria & Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc.
Here Comes The God Sent Generation !
Join the Train that will bring that Generation that is ready to make “A NEW NIGERIA” Possible.
The Train that will bring this Generation is ready to take off and Now is the right time for you to join the “TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAIN” that may Land in Nigeria Come 2015!
Are You Ready To Join The “TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAIN” today? Procrastinate Not, Today is the right day for you to join the “Transformational Train” so that you won’t Waste with this Wasted Generation because tomorrow might be too late.
This is Time for us (YOUTHS) to rule this Great Nation “NIGERIA”. As long as we are given the chance to ‘rule’, I believe there will be a “LANDMARK CHANGE.” – Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde
WATCHOUT …!!!
Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde,
A Change Agent.
Saturday, 25 June 2011
Friday, 24 June 2011
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Nigeria and Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc.: Nigeria; Change/Transformation is coming!
Nigeria and Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc.: Nigeria; Change/Transformation is coming!: ".....you can't stop a CHANGE/TRANSFORMATION whose TIME has come!!! Federal Republic of Nigeria, 'you' will be CHANGED/TRANSFORMED by all me..."
Nigeria and Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc.: Nigeria; Change/Transformation is coming!
Nigeria and Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc.: Nigeria; Change/Transformation is coming!: ".....you can't stop a CHANGE/TRANSFORMATION whose TIME has come!!! Federal Republic of Nigeria, 'you' will be CHANGED/TRANSFORMED by all me..."
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
THEIR BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS
THEIR BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS
The youth corps members that was killed in the quest of serving their fatherland during the election time in Northern areas of this junk called Nigeria, there blood on your hands.
Are you a president who could not preside on the truth, a leader who leads others on the ruinous path? Are you the governor who armed them, used them when it was right to do so? Did you dupe and dump them afterwards? Are you that who was friend to them yesterday and now betray them? Are you the fire-eating critic of today after you shamelessly urged them on the day before? The blood of these victims will hound you, I assure.
Are you a teacher who taught others to do what you would never have your children do, or instructors on that which is vain and unwholesome? Then you share a part of the guilt, their blood will haunt you for ever.
Are you the marabout who prescribed poison to the motherless; the herbalist who dished hemlock to the uninitiated? Are you the doctor who recommended untested potions to others; and raked in the gain from their makers? Your days are numbered; the dead are planning their revolt. Their blood, you should know, is on your hands.
Maybe you are the security agent, asked to get the facts to nip the bud, but you cook what is farce and present them as if that is the fad? You are paid to protect but you guide those who rape the souls in your care. You call the thief unto roguery and then sound the alarm to alert the householder. Then, your day of reckoning is nigh. Someone would have to pay for the innocent blood, that you shed everyday; the reggae man sang long ago. That someone is you.
Are you the journalist: the columnist, who compares the incomparable, befuddles others with lies; leaves the truth in search of falsehood; more fanatical than the fanatic and yet hides under intellectual sanctimony? Are you? Your day of judgement will soon come. The blood is flowing. And when it meets at the tributary of nemesis, it will down the voices of the mongers of falsehood. Yours will be chief, because their bloods is on your hands.
Are you the leader of that ethnic group? The one who stokes hatred in the unwary and reaps from gun-running to quell their rebellion? Are you that who made them poor and turned their poverty into your prosperity?
The blood of those turned into common felons; of those you made orphans, of the fathers mowed down long ago, of the mothers rendered childless in your bid to hold on to power, they are here to haunt you; you, you and you. Remember you sheared the lips of the suckling child from its firm grips on the crying mother’s breast. His wall was sweet music to your sick ears. Now, the blood is on a mission of vengeance. And your hands bear traces of the waste.
You were the pastor who divined midnight sacrifice to your blighted god, in the name of the true God; the Mallam who taught children to turn other’s laughter to sadness with no compulsion. You made butchers of the innocent and turned them on the sinless, then turn round to mow them down; the innocent and the sinless. There is blood dripping from your hands.
Neither the refutation of a million years, denials in hidden and open places, appeasement of unknown gods, nor the purchase of the conscience of many, will remove from your guilt. You are guilty without being charged, for the punishment you mete unto the blameless.
You could hide in exotic abodes, swathe yourself in pretentious grandeur or cover your emptiness in garbled logic, the truth is sure to find you out. Time will definitely unmask you. You will be rendered naked; your inheritance will be laid to waste, for you plotted evil against the guiltless.
The tongue you profess will not save you, your religion will not be a relief, the colour of your skin will not shield you; the geography of your origin will not secure you. When nemesis comes in rampaging angst, you and yours will not be spared. North, South, West, East, North by South or South by the Midwest; where you come from will count little. What you have will not matter, for it will soon be judgement day.
Some will say we have heard this before, it will never come in our time, even though I speak not if the second coming, yet I mean the final coming; when you can no longer change what you are, you can no longer decide what you will be. Then the full weight of the blood you have shed; by your actions or inactions, your silence or your rants and all that you did in between, will come crashing on you and your house of straws.
To the youth corps members that died in the Northern areas for serving their fatherland: may your rest in perfect peace. My heartfelt sympathy goes their families. R I P. E Sun re ooo…………..
Article culled from Thenationonlineng.net (2006).
Re-edited by: Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde
The youth corps members that was killed in the quest of serving their fatherland during the election time in Northern areas of this junk called Nigeria, there blood on your hands.
Are you a president who could not preside on the truth, a leader who leads others on the ruinous path? Are you the governor who armed them, used them when it was right to do so? Did you dupe and dump them afterwards? Are you that who was friend to them yesterday and now betray them? Are you the fire-eating critic of today after you shamelessly urged them on the day before? The blood of these victims will hound you, I assure.
Are you a teacher who taught others to do what you would never have your children do, or instructors on that which is vain and unwholesome? Then you share a part of the guilt, their blood will haunt you for ever.
Are you the marabout who prescribed poison to the motherless; the herbalist who dished hemlock to the uninitiated? Are you the doctor who recommended untested potions to others; and raked in the gain from their makers? Your days are numbered; the dead are planning their revolt. Their blood, you should know, is on your hands.
Maybe you are the security agent, asked to get the facts to nip the bud, but you cook what is farce and present them as if that is the fad? You are paid to protect but you guide those who rape the souls in your care. You call the thief unto roguery and then sound the alarm to alert the householder. Then, your day of reckoning is nigh. Someone would have to pay for the innocent blood, that you shed everyday; the reggae man sang long ago. That someone is you.
Are you the journalist: the columnist, who compares the incomparable, befuddles others with lies; leaves the truth in search of falsehood; more fanatical than the fanatic and yet hides under intellectual sanctimony? Are you? Your day of judgement will soon come. The blood is flowing. And when it meets at the tributary of nemesis, it will down the voices of the mongers of falsehood. Yours will be chief, because their bloods is on your hands.
Are you the leader of that ethnic group? The one who stokes hatred in the unwary and reaps from gun-running to quell their rebellion? Are you that who made them poor and turned their poverty into your prosperity?
The blood of those turned into common felons; of those you made orphans, of the fathers mowed down long ago, of the mothers rendered childless in your bid to hold on to power, they are here to haunt you; you, you and you. Remember you sheared the lips of the suckling child from its firm grips on the crying mother’s breast. His wall was sweet music to your sick ears. Now, the blood is on a mission of vengeance. And your hands bear traces of the waste.
You were the pastor who divined midnight sacrifice to your blighted god, in the name of the true God; the Mallam who taught children to turn other’s laughter to sadness with no compulsion. You made butchers of the innocent and turned them on the sinless, then turn round to mow them down; the innocent and the sinless. There is blood dripping from your hands.
Neither the refutation of a million years, denials in hidden and open places, appeasement of unknown gods, nor the purchase of the conscience of many, will remove from your guilt. You are guilty without being charged, for the punishment you mete unto the blameless.
You could hide in exotic abodes, swathe yourself in pretentious grandeur or cover your emptiness in garbled logic, the truth is sure to find you out. Time will definitely unmask you. You will be rendered naked; your inheritance will be laid to waste, for you plotted evil against the guiltless.
The tongue you profess will not save you, your religion will not be a relief, the colour of your skin will not shield you; the geography of your origin will not secure you. When nemesis comes in rampaging angst, you and yours will not be spared. North, South, West, East, North by South or South by the Midwest; where you come from will count little. What you have will not matter, for it will soon be judgement day.
Some will say we have heard this before, it will never come in our time, even though I speak not if the second coming, yet I mean the final coming; when you can no longer change what you are, you can no longer decide what you will be. Then the full weight of the blood you have shed; by your actions or inactions, your silence or your rants and all that you did in between, will come crashing on you and your house of straws.
To the youth corps members that died in the Northern areas for serving their fatherland: may your rest in perfect peace. My heartfelt sympathy goes their families. R I P. E Sun re ooo…………..
Article culled from Thenationonlineng.net (2006).
Re-edited by: Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde
The Time Has Come
The Time Has Come
I believe that the time has come to honour the legacy for which so many gave their lives.
I believe that the time has come to honour the legacy for which so many gave their lives.
- The time has come for change.
- The time has come for hope!
- The time has come for a return to values that characterise clean governance.
- The time has come – and it is long, long overdue – that our people have food security.
- The time has come for efficient delivery to serve the people of Nigeria.
- The time has come to create a society that fulfils its promises to its young.
- The time has come to create an authentically non-racial, non-sexist society.
- The time has come to create a Nigeria where public servants at every level serve the public and not their own pockets.
- The time has come to create a Nigeria where crime does not daily threaten the lives and possessions of our people.
- The time has come for people to hold their parties and government in check.
- The time has come to ensure that, institutions of our society, like the Judiciary, INEC and the Constitution are afforded the respect due to them. When these institutions are undermined, society disintegrates.
- The time has come for a clear distinction to be made between party interests and state responsibilities.
- The time has come for members of all political parties to have the right to gather in a violence-free environment.
- The time has really come to be free from democracy dictatorship.
- The time has come to make Nigeria a better place to live.
- The time has come to build a New and Better Nigeria.
Nigeria we hail thee!
Nigeria we hail thee
Our own dear native land
Though tribe and tongue may differ
In brotherhood we stand
Nigerians all and proud to serve
Our sovereign motherland
Our flag shall be a symbol
That truth and justice reign
In peace or battle honour
And this we count as gain
To pass unto our children
A banner without stain
O God of all creation
Grant this our one request
Help us to build a nation
Where no man is oppressed
And so with peace and plenty
Nigeria may be blessed.
If only we can have it as above?
The Old National Anthem.
Our own dear native land
Though tribe and tongue may differ
In brotherhood we stand
Nigerians all and proud to serve
Our sovereign motherland
Our flag shall be a symbol
That truth and justice reign
In peace or battle honour
And this we count as gain
To pass unto our children
A banner without stain
O God of all creation
Grant this our one request
Help us to build a nation
Where no man is oppressed
And so with peace and plenty
Nigeria may be blessed.
If only we can have it as above?
The Old National Anthem.
Nigeria Of My dream.Only REVOLUTION Can make It Happen Great Nation!
Together they produce one thing.............A GREAT NATION! Nigeria, a great nation Rich in natural resources and not disasters A people with one voice United in diversity and not divided A large population But with strength in our numbers Our leaders, ever ready to serve Always willing to make sacrifices With determination in our minds And love in our hearts The sky is but our beginning We stand out from the crowd We stand out the best GREAT you shall remain! A Teacher teaches pupils A Lawyer defends clients A Trader buys and sells goods A Nurse cares for the sick A Soldier protects the people A Policeman maintains peace and order A Tailor sews clothes A Driver drives vehicles A Cleaner cleans-up dirt A Photographer takes pictures A Mechanic repairs cars .....Different jobs but one purpose.....SERVICE Solving problems and meeting needs None is better; None is best Each one is important Each one is necessary For together they produce one thing.A GREAT NATION! Nigerians must learn one important lesson. We must only appoint people to sensitive government positions on MERIT. OUR ELDERS FAILED TO DO THIS. THAT IS WHY WE ARE IN THIS MESS TODAY.With united Nigeria we get there Yes We Can! Join Forces of peaceful revolution ,ant-Enemy of progres Together We Can Save Nigeria,People Like IBB must stay away from Nigeria Politics,To give young people with new idea chance of developed Nigeria and Africa.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
PREAMBLE
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
Article 1.
Article 2.
Article 3.
Article 4.
Article 5.
Article 6.
Article 7.
Article 8.
Article 9.
Article 10.
Article 11.
Article 12.
Article 13.
Article 14.
Article 15.
Article 16.
Article 17.
Article 18.
Article 19.
Article 20.
Article 21.
Article 22.
Article 23.
Article 24.
Article 25.
Article 26.
Article 27.
Article 28.
Article 29.
Article 30.
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
Article 1.
- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2.
- Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3.
- Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4.
- No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5.
- No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6.
- Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7.
- All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 8.
- Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 9.
- No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10.
- Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Article 11.
- (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
- (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Article 12.
- No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13.
- (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
- (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 14.
- (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
- (2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 15.
- (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
- (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Article 16.
- (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
- (2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
- (3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17.
- (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
- (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18.
- Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19.
- Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20.
- (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
- (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21.
- (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
- (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
- (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 22.
- Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Article 23.
- (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
- (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
- (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
- (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24.
- Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25.
- (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
- (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Article 26.
- (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
- (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
- (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Article 27.
- (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
- (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Article 28.
- Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 29.
- (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
- (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
- (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 30.
- Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
PREDATORS AS PHILANTROPISTS
They were not armed, save for some indecipherable skills and or pretences to them. There was no age barrier or limit. From the young to the not so young, the able and the slightly or totally challenged, they were beggars at a recent social function. The casual observer will hardly understand the deadly manifestation of the societal decay captured by their reality.
It was a battle ground in which an army of prey was being shadowed by a legion of predators. The apparent prize was some Naira notes in different stages of disuse. The real price however is the moral value of the society. The conclusion a dispassionate observer could draw is that we are further down than we are all prepared to accept.
The group dishing out music from the bandstand was excellent by all local standards. The tunes were coming from well-handed musical instruments even when the songs were ‘remix’ of other people’s hits. The dancers and the ‘prayers’ were well decked in ‘Proudly Nigeria’ Ankara, at least most of them. But the hoards of people heckling and pestering the dancers for money or other things were quite an eyesore. In their dressing, business approach and etiquettes, one needs little more to conclude that all is not well.
There is nothing wrong with getting some loose notes from a willing spender you would say, but when young children, offspring of peoples within the locality, get involved in shameless begging at social functions; when able bodied men harangue guests in provincial Yoruba land, then something has gone wrong with what we hold dear about our society.
A predator is an organism that feeds on another living organism or organisms known as prey; so one learnt from elementary ecology. There is the possibility that the prey is killed in such biological interactions during or after the act of feeding on them. Mutualism, a form of symbiosis, is a relationship of mutual benefit to the prey and its predator.
No where is the reality of the prey and predators better reflected than in the Southwest where such was hitherto strange? Here in the bowels of the Southwest, where dignity and respect used to be prime values, the sight of young children, contesting for leftovers was most difficult to bear. When did we sink this low? They were a different brand of predators, or preys as it really is. Cool and calculating, in one instance, daring and menacing in another. But that is not the distinguishing factor. Their preys or predators, though obvious of their nuisance capacities, lived with them enjoying their patronage. They were tolerated by their‘preys. Mutualism and not more, both felt. The reality is that one is always loosing and both will never gain.
What is creeping dangerously into provincial Yoruba looks on the face of it, like one that benefits both the prey and the predator? The young beggar, the old alms taker, the drummer and the women of the family see themselves as taking from the spenders as a way of sharing in the loot. The ‘Owambe’ spender feels that by doling out crisp naira notes, he is dispensing goodwill and displaying generosity. They are right so it seems. But is it really the way it appears.
In getting involved in begging, the beggar, particularly the able bodied one, shrinks his or her horizon for self actualisation. He incrementally disregards the attraction in toiling to survive. The premise is that the society is full of good people, who will always give to those who beg.
The giver beliefs that there will always be beggars; men who have become so self demeaned as to depend only on crumbs from others as a way of life. He wants them to remain beggars than become givers. He gives enough to discourage an honest day’s work but never enough to get the beggar off his misery. He would not stop giving so the beggar will not get sober enough to quit begging. Here is the pivot upon which what looks like a symbiotic existence is hung. But the Yoruba beggars one came across in the social event have dangerously close examples around them.
Since a misinterpreted form of mainstream politics has been forced down the throat of the Yoruba, the urge to affect lives progressively has been doused. Known means of survival for the states that make up the region have been thrown overboard. The economies, education and health realities of the people have become functions of federal allocations which we must agree have raised with the dollar fortunes of the country.
Rather than empower the people therefore, improved’ salaries, ‘better’ conditions of service and outright bribe of the elite have become the order of the day. Where ant mention is made of developing agriculture, forestry and other traditional means of generating revenues, it is always in position papers and programmes of action that end up inn government archives.
But the worst manifestation of the predator-prey relation is the use to token social service works as qualifying conditions for political office. Here, there and everywhere, you hear of office seekers who have paid school fees, bought Jamb forms and or provided drinking water. Those who make such provisions in their private capacities are most often found in parties and formations where provisions of such basics are hardly given serious consideration.
Worse, when they find themselves in government houses; most of the time by crook; they remember little of these needs. They argue unabashedly that they have paid enough as pre-election investments. The predators that they are have preyed on the appreciative nature of the people to get the more than commensurate worth for their ‘investments.’ The public till is seen then only as a pool from which dividends of pre-election investments could be drawn. They are in truth the predators and the people the prey. Even at that, symbiosis exists only in the imagination of the unwary.
The people ought to reject these crumbs served as generosity. The beggar must reject the hand downs of criminals dressed as philanthropists.
It was a battle ground in which an army of prey was being shadowed by a legion of predators. The apparent prize was some Naira notes in different stages of disuse. The real price however is the moral value of the society. The conclusion a dispassionate observer could draw is that we are further down than we are all prepared to accept.
The group dishing out music from the bandstand was excellent by all local standards. The tunes were coming from well-handed musical instruments even when the songs were ‘remix’ of other people’s hits. The dancers and the ‘prayers’ were well decked in ‘Proudly Nigeria’ Ankara, at least most of them. But the hoards of people heckling and pestering the dancers for money or other things were quite an eyesore. In their dressing, business approach and etiquettes, one needs little more to conclude that all is not well.
There is nothing wrong with getting some loose notes from a willing spender you would say, but when young children, offspring of peoples within the locality, get involved in shameless begging at social functions; when able bodied men harangue guests in provincial Yoruba land, then something has gone wrong with what we hold dear about our society.
A predator is an organism that feeds on another living organism or organisms known as prey; so one learnt from elementary ecology. There is the possibility that the prey is killed in such biological interactions during or after the act of feeding on them. Mutualism, a form of symbiosis, is a relationship of mutual benefit to the prey and its predator.
No where is the reality of the prey and predators better reflected than in the Southwest where such was hitherto strange? Here in the bowels of the Southwest, where dignity and respect used to be prime values, the sight of young children, contesting for leftovers was most difficult to bear. When did we sink this low? They were a different brand of predators, or preys as it really is. Cool and calculating, in one instance, daring and menacing in another. But that is not the distinguishing factor. Their preys or predators, though obvious of their nuisance capacities, lived with them enjoying their patronage. They were tolerated by their‘preys. Mutualism and not more, both felt. The reality is that one is always loosing and both will never gain.
What is creeping dangerously into provincial Yoruba looks on the face of it, like one that benefits both the prey and the predator? The young beggar, the old alms taker, the drummer and the women of the family see themselves as taking from the spenders as a way of sharing in the loot. The ‘Owambe’ spender feels that by doling out crisp naira notes, he is dispensing goodwill and displaying generosity. They are right so it seems. But is it really the way it appears.
In getting involved in begging, the beggar, particularly the able bodied one, shrinks his or her horizon for self actualisation. He incrementally disregards the attraction in toiling to survive. The premise is that the society is full of good people, who will always give to those who beg.
The giver beliefs that there will always be beggars; men who have become so self demeaned as to depend only on crumbs from others as a way of life. He wants them to remain beggars than become givers. He gives enough to discourage an honest day’s work but never enough to get the beggar off his misery. He would not stop giving so the beggar will not get sober enough to quit begging. Here is the pivot upon which what looks like a symbiotic existence is hung. But the Yoruba beggars one came across in the social event have dangerously close examples around them.
Since a misinterpreted form of mainstream politics has been forced down the throat of the Yoruba, the urge to affect lives progressively has been doused. Known means of survival for the states that make up the region have been thrown overboard. The economies, education and health realities of the people have become functions of federal allocations which we must agree have raised with the dollar fortunes of the country.
Rather than empower the people therefore, improved’ salaries, ‘better’ conditions of service and outright bribe of the elite have become the order of the day. Where ant mention is made of developing agriculture, forestry and other traditional means of generating revenues, it is always in position papers and programmes of action that end up inn government archives.
But the worst manifestation of the predator-prey relation is the use to token social service works as qualifying conditions for political office. Here, there and everywhere, you hear of office seekers who have paid school fees, bought Jamb forms and or provided drinking water. Those who make such provisions in their private capacities are most often found in parties and formations where provisions of such basics are hardly given serious consideration.
Worse, when they find themselves in government houses; most of the time by crook; they remember little of these needs. They argue unabashedly that they have paid enough as pre-election investments. The predators that they are have preyed on the appreciative nature of the people to get the more than commensurate worth for their ‘investments.’ The public till is seen then only as a pool from which dividends of pre-election investments could be drawn. They are in truth the predators and the people the prey. Even at that, symbiosis exists only in the imagination of the unwary.
The people ought to reject these crumbs served as generosity. The beggar must reject the hand downs of criminals dressed as philanthropists.
NIGERIA’S CANOE SINKING
Nigeria is a canoe on the stormy ‘River Nigeria’ depending for its survival on the cooperation of all its passengers and crew. The crew rotates but seems forced on the passengers by the more powerful who boast, bribe and intimidate. Any one of the passengers can sink the canoe by standing up, dancing, fighting, and shooting, rioting or stealing. If too many of them, rich or poor, stood or sat on one side of the canoe it would capsize and sink.
In other words, many passengers choose not to sink the canoe in spite of the humiliations and insults they receive. Perhaps I would prefer to compare Nigeria to the Titanic as it headed towards the iceberg, blinded by arrogance and circumstance. Our own River Nigeria has no iceberg but it does have rocks which are man-made, deliberately placed to destroy our canoe.
Our canoe even has those aboard in it, our people in America, UK among others. We are all in the sinking canoe and so is our wealth and we are not as poor as politicians say. In fact, Nigeria is very wealthy. Look at the load in the canoe- food, fruit, fish, oil, minerals, tourist attractions, internationally acceptable intellectual wealth earning billions abroad, common business sense- now called entrepreneurial skills- keeping alive pensioners and workers unpaid for years where their pension funds etc. were raped by government political appointees. The problem is that the wealth is not going around. We are not our brother’s keeper but the murderer of our brother’s children.
Behind our canoe is a huge raft of the possessions of the secretly wealthy at our expense. They are the financial criminals with funds made by denying the dead typhoid children preventive care and now in banks abroad or with fronts in major corporate interests in Nigeria.
The canoe does not make progress because while many are rowing forward, others are still rowing backwards. They wrongly think that Nigeria’s salvation lies in the old feudal ways of the ‘King and I’ when unitary government allowed kings to phone the CBN governor for cash and contracts that were never to be executed.
While man was inventing railways to move man and machine at minimum cost and maximum safety, these rowers backwards killed the railways in favour of personally owned trailers and tankers on every road, ruining the road and clogging it with traffic. Ruining the railways was the back-rowers specialty preventing even intra-city Lagos railway. Such backward ‘leaders’ are nationwide.
We Nigerians want to know whether the back-rowers can move forward. Nigeria is not sacrosanct. It is just a canoe and it needs all of us to stay afloat. We no longer row as slaves. For the past 11 years, we have rowed through very rough waters. Nigeria has been sold several times on the brink of liberation. Will it happen again? We are tired of sweet promises without delivering.
This time if things are not improved, the canoe will sink, but some of us have life jackets. Can the real leaders’ willing to help row Nigeria forward please stand up? Think where the canoe called Nigeria; railways and electricity would be if we had rowed in the same direction since the 60s.
In other words, many passengers choose not to sink the canoe in spite of the humiliations and insults they receive. Perhaps I would prefer to compare Nigeria to the Titanic as it headed towards the iceberg, blinded by arrogance and circumstance. Our own River Nigeria has no iceberg but it does have rocks which are man-made, deliberately placed to destroy our canoe.
Our canoe even has those aboard in it, our people in America, UK among others. We are all in the sinking canoe and so is our wealth and we are not as poor as politicians say. In fact, Nigeria is very wealthy. Look at the load in the canoe- food, fruit, fish, oil, minerals, tourist attractions, internationally acceptable intellectual wealth earning billions abroad, common business sense- now called entrepreneurial skills- keeping alive pensioners and workers unpaid for years where their pension funds etc. were raped by government political appointees. The problem is that the wealth is not going around. We are not our brother’s keeper but the murderer of our brother’s children.
Behind our canoe is a huge raft of the possessions of the secretly wealthy at our expense. They are the financial criminals with funds made by denying the dead typhoid children preventive care and now in banks abroad or with fronts in major corporate interests in Nigeria.
The canoe does not make progress because while many are rowing forward, others are still rowing backwards. They wrongly think that Nigeria’s salvation lies in the old feudal ways of the ‘King and I’ when unitary government allowed kings to phone the CBN governor for cash and contracts that were never to be executed.
While man was inventing railways to move man and machine at minimum cost and maximum safety, these rowers backwards killed the railways in favour of personally owned trailers and tankers on every road, ruining the road and clogging it with traffic. Ruining the railways was the back-rowers specialty preventing even intra-city Lagos railway. Such backward ‘leaders’ are nationwide.
We Nigerians want to know whether the back-rowers can move forward. Nigeria is not sacrosanct. It is just a canoe and it needs all of us to stay afloat. We no longer row as slaves. For the past 11 years, we have rowed through very rough waters. Nigeria has been sold several times on the brink of liberation. Will it happen again? We are tired of sweet promises without delivering.
This time if things are not improved, the canoe will sink, but some of us have life jackets. Can the real leaders’ willing to help row Nigeria forward please stand up? Think where the canoe called Nigeria; railways and electricity would be if we had rowed in the same direction since the 60s.
I WEEP FOR NIGERIA, MY BELOVED COUNTRY!
“I pledge to Nigeria my country, to be faithful, loyal and honest, to serve Nigeria with all my strength, to defend her unity, and uphold her honour and glory, so help me GOD”
These are the words/vows that majority of Nigerians have been taught to recite from childhood, almost all daily basis, during our primary and secondary school days.
Even our leaders of today had to recite this oath repeatedly during their school days, even when the Bible says who makes a vow and did not pay it is a fool. The pledge was and is still the foundation of all Nigerians who have been opportune to pass through primary and secondary schools.
Imagine the wordings of the pledge, imagine the sincerity and dedications in which they are daily recited, imagine the innocence at which this vows are doled out, imagine the products of this vows that span through years. These are indeed vows for a beloved country. A nation we all love to support. A location we love to defend and call our own.
Today I weep! I weep for Nigeria, my beloved country. I weep because our dear leaders have failed us, leaders that are so insensitive to the pains, labours and heavy laden of the led. Nigeria is in pains and our leaders are feasting. Our country is sick and our leaders cannot diagnose. Nigeria needs healing from her diseases, sicknesses and pains. Nigeria needs a surgical operation.
I weep, because truth, righteousness, modesty, zeal, excellence, hard work and the likes, have disappeared like the dew from our beloved country. A country where men of integrity in the beginning toiled day and night to lay her foundation and build.
Nigeria! A country where excellence is no more appreciated or encouraged, A country where servants now throw caution to the dustbin, A country where the likes of the Baloguns and Alams are celebrated and even worshipped. A country where evil doers are hailed as angel of light. Nigeria is my country, there no doubt about that.
And fellow Nigerians, I weep when everywhere I turn there is something to weep for. For Nigeria, my beloved country, I weep.
These are the words/vows that majority of Nigerians have been taught to recite from childhood, almost all daily basis, during our primary and secondary school days.
Even our leaders of today had to recite this oath repeatedly during their school days, even when the Bible says who makes a vow and did not pay it is a fool. The pledge was and is still the foundation of all Nigerians who have been opportune to pass through primary and secondary schools.
Imagine the wordings of the pledge, imagine the sincerity and dedications in which they are daily recited, imagine the innocence at which this vows are doled out, imagine the products of this vows that span through years. These are indeed vows for a beloved country. A nation we all love to support. A location we love to defend and call our own.
Today I weep! I weep for Nigeria, my beloved country. I weep because our dear leaders have failed us, leaders that are so insensitive to the pains, labours and heavy laden of the led. Nigeria is in pains and our leaders are feasting. Our country is sick and our leaders cannot diagnose. Nigeria needs healing from her diseases, sicknesses and pains. Nigeria needs a surgical operation.
I weep, because truth, righteousness, modesty, zeal, excellence, hard work and the likes, have disappeared like the dew from our beloved country. A country where men of integrity in the beginning toiled day and night to lay her foundation and build.
Nigeria! A country where excellence is no more appreciated or encouraged, A country where servants now throw caution to the dustbin, A country where the likes of the Baloguns and Alams are celebrated and even worshipped. A country where evil doers are hailed as angel of light. Nigeria is my country, there no doubt about that.
And fellow Nigerians, I weep when everywhere I turn there is something to weep for. For Nigeria, my beloved country, I weep.
Only Nigeria Does Unexplainable Things
Only Nigeria Does Unexplainable Things
It is sad that our country has become a laughing stock, though am not surprise because this is the only country that does unexplainable things. Imagine! This is the only country that runs a gold mine at loss. This is the only country that is importing what it has in abundance.
This is the only country where there will be fire outbreak but fire fighters would have no water to save the situation, despite being surrounded by water. This is a country where oil productions are produced at disunity. Her textiles are houses for rags dumping hall instead of being a new cloth production centre.
This is a country where there is no security, but sends troops to keep peace in another man’s land. This is a country that has dams, but no water. So, citizens drink ‘pure’ water that smash up their viscera. This is a country that has enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed itself.
This is a country that is blessed with vegetation that can sustain farming all year-round but have not been able to harness the resources effectively. The lands are fertile but we choose to import foods and commodities. This is a country that can produce anything, but import everything.
This is the only country that mints its currency abroad at a cost more than the value of the currency itself. This is the country where darkness persists while the countries we gave electricity enjoys it (despite the abundance resources). This is a country that runs her economy with generating sets which is even detrimental to human health, with fumes so hazardous to the environment. This is the country where its leader prefers to pay millions of dollars for medicines abroad than fixing the hospitals back home.
This is a country that has hospitals without doctors, medicines or power. All the nurses have left the country and the rest are already preparing to leave. It has the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world and future generations are dying before her. She’s hopeless, hapless and helpless and even every other ‘less’.
Our land is dead because of deforestation; over-flooding destroys property worth’s of millions during raining season because the drainage systems are bunged up; the fish are dead because the oil companies dump waste in the rivers; our communities are being eroded by erosion, and nothing is being done.
This is a country that has been sucked dry. She produces rice, but don’t eat it. She has millions of cows but no milk. Her citizens drive the best cars in the world but have no roads, so she crush her best brains in the caverns, craters and crevasses they crash into daily.
This is a country where the roads are pit of hell. The roads are full of drum holes not even pot holes. The railway corporation is begging for attention and the water transportation is no more. To climax it all, there is no good transportation network in this country. This is a country where transportation has become a risky business.
This is a country where its school has no teachers and its classroom has no roof and its students listen to lectures through windows. Her classrooms have no chairs and table, so students sit on the floor. This is a country where we have million candidates craving to enter universities, but our prison can only accommodate a tenth. This is a country where its professors have gone abroad, and the rest are awaiting visas. This is a country where we produce university graduate, but almost all are illiterates. Educated illiterates are all over this country.
This is a country that her youths have no past, present nor future. Her youths are now political thugs used by the desperate power seekers in paving their ways to the seat that belongs to the people’s choice. The youths are now ‘James Bond’, walk the streets of all cities. Imagine! The futures of this country are hustlers, drunkards and drug addicts. The young ladies have been trafficked to abroad for God-forbid business. The youths are now skilled and professional kidnappers.
This is a country that those who looted the public money walk the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private planes. They have looted the future of generations unborn and have more money than they can spend in several lifetimes, but their brothers die of starvation. They ought to live the rest of their lives in ‘kirikiri’ (a prison with tight security in Nigeria). This is a country where corruption is rearing its head virtually from every angle of the national life.
Her traditional rulers are intensely corrupt, Godless and very dishonourable in their conducts. They placed priority on money and wealth acquisition even to the detriment of their positions and the society at large. This is a country that has dullards as constitution makers and irresponsible lawmakers which are also lawbreakers. They want mind-boggling allowances as members of the legislative houses; they want to get paid for laws they never get to make or even obey. This is a country where there are selfish Federal Executive Council members.
Her political platform is filled with old folks. Her political ladder is climbed by rogues, daft, imbeciles, nonentity, social misfit, social miscreants, street urchins, nuisance, vagabonds, nincompoops and the likes. Her politicians are the greatest disappointment on the global political highway. Her leaders failed to protect citizens from human tragedies of corruption, greed, violence, war and inability to organise a free, fair and credible elections.
This is a country where the leaders don’t want to work. President wants to ride executive jets and feel nothing about providing basic needs. Their wives live big and they see other people wives toil day and night for stipends. They want to build houses in places of choice and so be able to protect themselves from the nuisance that the rest and exhaling to let out frustration and take rational decisions.
Her leaders’ indiscretion, predilection for corruption and wealth acquisition, jaundiced policies, lack of visionary and robust leadership at all levels; nepotism and godfatherism have been the bane of her development since independence in 1960. Her political ‘heroes’ are people who jump from poverty to extreme wealth rather than those who give up their riches and positions to voluntarily serve the poor.
This is a country where the citizens can do anything to get title; those who find it difficult to get a diploma do buy a Honourary Doctorate Degree. We now here of pastors before preaching, they introduce themselves as Senior Apostle, Prophet, Primate, Evangelist, His most Superior, Deacon, Deaconess, Reverend, Canon, Oniwaasu and the likes. Even a mere councillor can make your stay in the village a bitter one if you forget to add Honourable when calling him, since he his addressed as ‘Area Father’ by his thugs.
This is a country that is ruled by men in mufti, but not a democracy. This is a country where big men stay in their houses and write elections results. Her elections are won through intimidation and brutalization of people, snatching of ballot boxes and killing of opponents. Her elections are won by men and women who are unfit to win an election into their wives and husbands bedroom. This is a country where the electoral system is nothing to write home about but some politicians are using this defective system to get to power.
Her Police Force has a historical knack for corruption, consistency, torture, blackmail, armed robbery, suppression, oppression, repression, extortion, intimidation, murder et al. The policemen are all criminals, they aid public misconducts. They are like a rotten carcass. This is a country under robbers’ siege; their weapons are the best.
This is a country where corruption has progressed from Arithmetic progression to Geometric progression. This is a country where most of the people are corrupt; they look at every action taken as part of the things flowing from corruptive tendencies and system. This is a country that has yet to overcome the bogeys of mindless corruption, sectionalism, ethnicity, religious, bigotry, and self-serving politics of intolerance and lack of commitment to national ideas since 1st of October 1960 (Independence Day).
During election time, her people behaves like the pastor who was admonishing the congregation to follow Jesus, in rain or sunshine, in peace or war, or whether fire is burning or whatever, but when a rat ran past his feet in the pulpit, he jumped out and was screaming ‘the blood of Jesus’ and calling the names of the angels, from Gabriel to Raphael, to Raphael, to Michael and Uriel.
Her judiciary is like a house divided against itself, one side doing the job the way it should be done and the other side vertically sabotaging the reputation of the judiciary. The reputation of her judiciary is coming and going like the death and rise of ‘ABIKU’ and this portray her judiciary as another ‘ABIKU’ in disguise.
This is a country that the future of her judiciary is without focus. The rays of justice are gradually fading out. The tom-tom of justice, vindication and of hope that uses to beat in the heart of the citizens wherever a landmark judgement is delivered suddenly went silent. Court judgements are also rigged. This is a country where judges now become perverse of justice.
Her Christians and Muslim cleric are now sycophants of desperate office seekers. They fraternise with the public office holders without telling them the raw truth about the unprecedented depravity and poverty imposed on the majority of 140 million-plus people of this country. Pastors and Evangelists has left the truthful way and now leading the people to Sodom and Gomorrah (the land of destruction). Her Gospel Musicians are sons and daughters of Jezebel. They are now the latest and hottest harlots.
This is a country where a man elevates himself to the position of God; hardly can you convince him of his mortality; that he is just like an ordinary being.
This is a nation where money is better preferable to good name. This nation is not just a haven of different species, but a ‘nation and people’ wallowing in the quagmire of absurdity.
Governance has failed in Nigeria and we have failed ourselves also.
WE NEED TO RE-THINK. IN THIS COUNTRY
It is sad that our country has become a laughing stock, though am not surprise because this is the only country that does unexplainable things. Imagine! This is the only country that runs a gold mine at loss. This is the only country that is importing what it has in abundance.
This is the only country where there will be fire outbreak but fire fighters would have no water to save the situation, despite being surrounded by water. This is a country where oil productions are produced at disunity. Her textiles are houses for rags dumping hall instead of being a new cloth production centre.
This is a country where there is no security, but sends troops to keep peace in another man’s land. This is a country that has dams, but no water. So, citizens drink ‘pure’ water that smash up their viscera. This is a country that has enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed itself.
This is a country that is blessed with vegetation that can sustain farming all year-round but have not been able to harness the resources effectively. The lands are fertile but we choose to import foods and commodities. This is a country that can produce anything, but import everything.
This is the only country that mints its currency abroad at a cost more than the value of the currency itself. This is the country where darkness persists while the countries we gave electricity enjoys it (despite the abundance resources). This is a country that runs her economy with generating sets which is even detrimental to human health, with fumes so hazardous to the environment. This is the country where its leader prefers to pay millions of dollars for medicines abroad than fixing the hospitals back home.
This is a country that has hospitals without doctors, medicines or power. All the nurses have left the country and the rest are already preparing to leave. It has the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world and future generations are dying before her. She’s hopeless, hapless and helpless and even every other ‘less’.
Our land is dead because of deforestation; over-flooding destroys property worth’s of millions during raining season because the drainage systems are bunged up; the fish are dead because the oil companies dump waste in the rivers; our communities are being eroded by erosion, and nothing is being done.
This is a country that has been sucked dry. She produces rice, but don’t eat it. She has millions of cows but no milk. Her citizens drive the best cars in the world but have no roads, so she crush her best brains in the caverns, craters and crevasses they crash into daily.
This is a country where the roads are pit of hell. The roads are full of drum holes not even pot holes. The railway corporation is begging for attention and the water transportation is no more. To climax it all, there is no good transportation network in this country. This is a country where transportation has become a risky business.
This is a country where its school has no teachers and its classroom has no roof and its students listen to lectures through windows. Her classrooms have no chairs and table, so students sit on the floor. This is a country where we have million candidates craving to enter universities, but our prison can only accommodate a tenth. This is a country where its professors have gone abroad, and the rest are awaiting visas. This is a country where we produce university graduate, but almost all are illiterates. Educated illiterates are all over this country.
This is a country that her youths have no past, present nor future. Her youths are now political thugs used by the desperate power seekers in paving their ways to the seat that belongs to the people’s choice. The youths are now ‘James Bond’, walk the streets of all cities. Imagine! The futures of this country are hustlers, drunkards and drug addicts. The young ladies have been trafficked to abroad for God-forbid business. The youths are now skilled and professional kidnappers.
This is a country that those who looted the public money walk the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private planes. They have looted the future of generations unborn and have more money than they can spend in several lifetimes, but their brothers die of starvation. They ought to live the rest of their lives in ‘kirikiri’ (a prison with tight security in Nigeria). This is a country where corruption is rearing its head virtually from every angle of the national life.
Her traditional rulers are intensely corrupt, Godless and very dishonourable in their conducts. They placed priority on money and wealth acquisition even to the detriment of their positions and the society at large. This is a country that has dullards as constitution makers and irresponsible lawmakers which are also lawbreakers. They want mind-boggling allowances as members of the legislative houses; they want to get paid for laws they never get to make or even obey. This is a country where there are selfish Federal Executive Council members.
Her political platform is filled with old folks. Her political ladder is climbed by rogues, daft, imbeciles, nonentity, social misfit, social miscreants, street urchins, nuisance, vagabonds, nincompoops and the likes. Her politicians are the greatest disappointment on the global political highway. Her leaders failed to protect citizens from human tragedies of corruption, greed, violence, war and inability to organise a free, fair and credible elections.
This is a country where the leaders don’t want to work. President wants to ride executive jets and feel nothing about providing basic needs. Their wives live big and they see other people wives toil day and night for stipends. They want to build houses in places of choice and so be able to protect themselves from the nuisance that the rest and exhaling to let out frustration and take rational decisions.
Her leaders’ indiscretion, predilection for corruption and wealth acquisition, jaundiced policies, lack of visionary and robust leadership at all levels; nepotism and godfatherism have been the bane of her development since independence in 1960. Her political ‘heroes’ are people who jump from poverty to extreme wealth rather than those who give up their riches and positions to voluntarily serve the poor.
This is a country where the citizens can do anything to get title; those who find it difficult to get a diploma do buy a Honourary Doctorate Degree. We now here of pastors before preaching, they introduce themselves as Senior Apostle, Prophet, Primate, Evangelist, His most Superior, Deacon, Deaconess, Reverend, Canon, Oniwaasu and the likes. Even a mere councillor can make your stay in the village a bitter one if you forget to add Honourable when calling him, since he his addressed as ‘Area Father’ by his thugs.
This is a country that is ruled by men in mufti, but not a democracy. This is a country where big men stay in their houses and write elections results. Her elections are won through intimidation and brutalization of people, snatching of ballot boxes and killing of opponents. Her elections are won by men and women who are unfit to win an election into their wives and husbands bedroom. This is a country where the electoral system is nothing to write home about but some politicians are using this defective system to get to power.
Her Police Force has a historical knack for corruption, consistency, torture, blackmail, armed robbery, suppression, oppression, repression, extortion, intimidation, murder et al. The policemen are all criminals, they aid public misconducts. They are like a rotten carcass. This is a country under robbers’ siege; their weapons are the best.
This is a country where corruption has progressed from Arithmetic progression to Geometric progression. This is a country where most of the people are corrupt; they look at every action taken as part of the things flowing from corruptive tendencies and system. This is a country that has yet to overcome the bogeys of mindless corruption, sectionalism, ethnicity, religious, bigotry, and self-serving politics of intolerance and lack of commitment to national ideas since 1st of October 1960 (Independence Day).
During election time, her people behaves like the pastor who was admonishing the congregation to follow Jesus, in rain or sunshine, in peace or war, or whether fire is burning or whatever, but when a rat ran past his feet in the pulpit, he jumped out and was screaming ‘the blood of Jesus’ and calling the names of the angels, from Gabriel to Raphael, to Raphael, to Michael and Uriel.
Her judiciary is like a house divided against itself, one side doing the job the way it should be done and the other side vertically sabotaging the reputation of the judiciary. The reputation of her judiciary is coming and going like the death and rise of ‘ABIKU’ and this portray her judiciary as another ‘ABIKU’ in disguise.
This is a country that the future of her judiciary is without focus. The rays of justice are gradually fading out. The tom-tom of justice, vindication and of hope that uses to beat in the heart of the citizens wherever a landmark judgement is delivered suddenly went silent. Court judgements are also rigged. This is a country where judges now become perverse of justice.
Her Christians and Muslim cleric are now sycophants of desperate office seekers. They fraternise with the public office holders without telling them the raw truth about the unprecedented depravity and poverty imposed on the majority of 140 million-plus people of this country. Pastors and Evangelists has left the truthful way and now leading the people to Sodom and Gomorrah (the land of destruction). Her Gospel Musicians are sons and daughters of Jezebel. They are now the latest and hottest harlots.
This is a country where a man elevates himself to the position of God; hardly can you convince him of his mortality; that he is just like an ordinary being.
This is a nation where money is better preferable to good name. This nation is not just a haven of different species, but a ‘nation and people’ wallowing in the quagmire of absurdity.
Governance has failed in Nigeria and we have failed ourselves also.
WE NEED TO RE-THINK. IN THIS COUNTRY
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