WHO WILL HELP ME FAST-FORWARD THIS REGIME. Written by Prof. Godfrey O. Ozumba
Before now I had held my peace counting down on the days left for this administration to wind down. Each passing day increased the tempo of my joy. Because, this meant that our days of captivity are reducing. But, you know what, with the opening of the recent can of worms concerning our Accountant General, followed by NIMAMSA Chair alleged to have cornered our patrimony to the tune of billions and trillions respectively, I became sick and bewildered. The one year left for this administration now seems an eternity for me. This is why I am looking for someone who will help me fast-forward this regime and bring it to an abrupt close before we all perish.
As if those were not enough another news came that one Nsima Ekere stole his billions, then, came Senator Okorocha now in EFCC for also stealing his own billions. This thriving competition of stealing now in billions and trillions should bother every well meaning Nigerian. This is the reason why our government cannot and will never be able to finance education in Nigeria.
I'm very worried that sooner than later our leaders will desert governance after they have stolen all there is to steal and borrowed all that can be borrowed. At that time they will be begging you and I to come and take over the reins of power.
As I was still holding my breath in patience, I heard of the evil of burning a student alive for blasphemy, then, the beheading of a Lawmaker in Anambra, then, the most recent case of killing a pregnant woman with her four children in Anambra, I shuddered. This is why I am looking for someone to come quickly and help me fast-forward this regime before we are all roasted.
What a regime of blood!
What a regime of corruption!
What a regime of impunity!
What a regime of nepotism!
What a regime of divisiveness!
What a regime of hypocrisy!
What a rudderless nation!
A country where the only business that thrives is politics, where impunity is preferred to the rule of law, where ignorance is rated high above education, where people mistake imposition for consensus, where consensus is mistaken for democracy. This is a country where the masses are impoverished so they will accept peanut as bribes to continue to recycle deadwoods in politics.This is a country where people know what to do but because of vested interests will keep quiet. This is a regime that has shed so much blood that you wonder whether we're now exporting blood instead of oil.
This regime that promised us security but has given us insecurity, promised us functional refineries but have given us more fraud through subsidy, they promised us bouyant economy but have given us poverty and business collapse. They promised us power supply but now we can only boast of heightened darkness. This is a regime that promised us rail transportation but has turned it into business for kidnappers. It is the regime that fiddles while the nation burns, a regime that majors on minors and minors on majors. This is indeed a regime that prefers consumption to production. It certainly prefers sharing( among the already rich) to conserving. It's a regime that builds infrastructure but never maintains them. A regime that sacrifices the future of her youth for the pleasure of her rulers. A regime that kills for her prophets against the will of her prophets. I am really suffocating. Is there any brave person to deliver me from all these by fast-forwarding this regime?
This is a regime that Pamper bandits but kill freedom fighters. A regime that rejects UTAS (homegrown) technology in preference for an imported technology just for pecuniary benefits. A regime that rates election above education. A regime that has nothing to do with tomorrow but only concerned about today. A regime that builds new factories but simultaneously kill old ones. I'm in doldrums! I'm in quagmire! I'm axphysiating! Is there any one who can fast-forward this regime for me!
A regime that breeds more unrest than rest, more bandits than citizens, more ritualists than pious men and women. It's indeed unfortunate. The list of our woes are endless. But my fear is that if nothing is done quickly we may all be swallowed up. This is why I am looking for someone to come quickly come and fast-forward this regime for me.
Three ways this can be done is to say No to the buying of the conscience of party delegates. Rejection of PDP and APC (because they are the same Siamese twins) at the polls or voting for only proven and credible candidates. Or, we all drug ourselves with any available soporific/opium that will lead us all to a long sleep that will see us waking up on the eve of the elections, so, with our votes we can fast-forward the end of this regime.
Nigerians - Adult, Youth, Children, ( Men, women, students, ) have suffered untold hardship in the hands of this regime. Those who may have suffered most are those in education related sector. Please when next you vote, vote for education compliant president and governors otherwise we will willy-nilly find ourselves in this same boat of inertia. On a closing note, I beg those who know how to fast-forward this regime to do so before we all perish.
Let us continue in prayer as one of the ways of supernaturally fast-forwarding this regime. We seem to be at the thresholds of either survival or somersault, eldorado or nuncdimitis, implosion or explosion, etc. However, as an incurable optimist, I believe that the God of heaven who loves Nigeria so much will still find a way of delivering us. My confidence is anchored on the fact that I know there are men and women who are in the trenches of intercession holding the horns of the altar. It's in line with God's word that "if my people who are called by name will humble themselves and pray and turn away from their wicked ways He will hear from heaven and heal our land". Surely Nigeria will be saved but by the whiskers! May we never return to folly from 2023. Nigeria must be rebuilt and restructured if we are to survive in the nearest future. A word is enough for the wise.
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