How did we ever degenerate to this level? What happened to the "no nonsense" demeanor we are known for? These days we are so used to tolerating rubbish, we can't even think straight any more. All we do is call on God to come solve our problems, forgetting that heaven only helps those who help themselves.
I woke up some days back to the sad news of the murder of innocent secondary school students in yobe state. At first, I didn't really pay attention to the news, because I didn't realize they were secondary school students. I thought they were students of one of the tertiary institutions in yobe state, so I thought to myself "at least they are adults". I'm not saying its okay for adults to be slaughtered, but there's a different level of sympathy when you realize they were helpless teenagers, who couldn't even fight back even if they wanted to. Now imagine what has become of my humanity, because news of senseless killings in this country, is no longer news to the populace. All we do these days is pray not to be amongst the unfortunate few that may end up at the wrong place. It's really saddening that we may not realize it, but we're slowly losing our humanity. The worst part is that we're now contented with sitting at home and condemning those acts, or raining curses at the murderers. It's not good enough, we have to do more. We have to demand for more to be done. Sending soldiers to those places to engage those murderous monsters clearly isn't good enough. To end this senseless killing spree, more has to be done by the people that have mistaken serving us for ruling us.
I am personally tired of hearing my able president condemn these acts, of course we don't expect him to endorse it. We expect more than the condemnation of these acts. The populace is slowly losing its confidence in the leadership. Don't send soldiers to go there and die for nothing, since you've refused to equip them properly. Dont send soldiers there to die, thereby increasing the population of widows and fatherless children, except you're ready to take up the role of their father and provider. You would never know how painful it is unless you lose a loved one to these monsters and I pray you never do. Can you imagine going home to find our that your lovely brother, uncle or father was beheaded by some lunatic? Or that your amazing sister, wife or mother was kidnapped, raped and beheaded by those murderous monsters. Its worse when you hear they were teenagers, teenagers that could have been future leaders. And you think it's okay to just condemn the act? Please have a rethink. Talk is cheap. The military alone can't win this battle. We all have to fight with them and win this, and How do we ordinary citizens fight? First we have to realize we aren't ordinary. We own this country and we'll make our leaders do more and they must do more.
When I say we want our leaders to do more, I'm not just talking about the elected few that are more interested in looting our treasuries. I'm also referring to those that wake up every morning to tweet, talk, and point accusing fingers at our elected few, in the name of being the opposition. Like I said, talk is cheap. We don't need any more bickering. Prove you're honorable enough and join hands with our elected leaders to tackle this common enemy. If you wait till you're elected, I don't think there'll be anyone to elect you or a country to rule. I hope you also know that we're smarter than voting a particular party. We would vote the individuals that have proven themselves worthy enough. So if you like run to that party you think is sweeping people off their feet, you'll be in for a shocker.
Please I'm appealing to those at the helm of affairs, harken to the voice of the people. Dont make us lose our confidence in your ability, because if we decide to fight this battle ourselves, we won't just be fighting the initial evil, we'll also fight against those that had the power to protect us but chose otherwise. Be warned. The darkest part of hell are reserved for those that maintained their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Whether you're a Muslim, Christian or pagan, we have to come together as one and combat this common evil. It's not a respecter of tribe or religion. It's time we faced it as one. If you haven't noticed, It's bent on seperating us, because even it knows we are stronger as a united front and it won't be able to take us down if we fight united. So let's come together and fight our mutual enemy as one. God protect and save us from all evil and even the evil in us. God bless my Nigeria, your Nigeria, our Nigeria.
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A fabulous piece. Well writen
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