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Heralding The ‘EMBER' Months by Babafaros(m): 11:57am On Sep 02, 2014 |
HOW time flies! We are already in the beginning of the quartet of September, October, November and December – otherwise known as the ember months. These are the crowning or capping months of every calendar year. Rightly or wrongly, many believe that these are fast-paced months. Some, superstitiously, believe that the ember months come with evil foreboding. What no one can deny, however, is the fact that road mishaps, banks and internet frauds, armed robbery and other criminal activities are usually in the ascendancy during this period which also serves as annual convention and thanksgiving season for most faith-based organizations (FBOs). Experts’ explanation for the high rate of crime and accidents recorded during this period has to do with the frenzy and obsession to end the year on a note of grandeur and financially well-oiled celebration(s). In the bid to catch up with the Joneses, like the Americans would say, every Tom, Dick and Harry resort to both legitimate and illegitimate sources of generating additional income in readiness for the spending spree that usually characterize this period of the year. While swindlers and scammers throw their spanners to work with a view to defrauding as many victims as possible, women of easy virtues also see this period as a season of boom for their sinful and dehumanizing trade. Sadden still, our commercial drivers usually throw caution to the wind, overloading their vehicles and speeding with reckless abandon all in a bid to increase the number of trips in a day and rake in extra money during this period. The unfortunate outcome is usually increase in road mishaps and needless loss of human lives. These warped mindsets and extreme approaches to the ember months are unfortunate and condemnable. We view this period as one of stocktaking and evaluation than anything else. It ought, rightly, to be a season of looking back to see how far one has fared vis-à-vis the targets one has set for the fading year. And, on the basis of such retrospective evaluation, what becomes expedient is some level of restrategizing to ensure that the set goals are achieved before the year winds up. This, certainly, can be done without recourse to criminality or illegitimacy. We find it curious that many wait for the ember months to set in before they embark on an avoid rush and frenzy to get so many things done. Like they say in Africa, why wait for the war before embarking on arms acquisition? This is a cut and dried case of planlessness that is avoidable in the first place. We, therefore, call on individuals and even organisastions to resort to meticulous planning as well as set feasible goals at the dawn of every year as antidote to the needless fire-brigade approach to the end- of-year seasons. Since prevention, they say, is better than cure, the onus is on the security agencies, particularly the Police to ensure adequate security and a crime-free society during this period; the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) to evolve strategies that would reduce to the barest minimum incidents of road mishap and so on. Deltans and, by extension, Nigerians should realize that security is a collective responsibility. They should, therefore, collaborate with security agencies by volunteering useful information that would aid their operations and, more importantly, strive to live within the confines of the law throughout this season and beyond HOW time flies! Today marks the beginning of the quartet of September, October, November and December – otherwise known as the ember months. These are the crowning or capping months of every calendar year. Rightly or wrongly, many believe that these are fast-paced months. Some, superstitiously, believe that the ember months come with evil foreboding. What no one can deny, however, is the fact that road mishaps, banks and internet frauds, armed robbery and other criminal activities are usually in the ascendancy during this period which also serves as annual convention and thanksgiving season for most faith-based organizations (FBOs). Experts’ explanation for the high rate of crime and accidents recorded during this period has to do with the frenzy and obsession to end the year on a note of grandeur and financially well-oiled celebration(s). In the bid to catch up with the Joneses, like the Americans would say, every Tom, Dick and Harry resort to both legitimate and illegitimate sources of generating additional income in readiness for the spending spree that usually characterize this period of the year. While swindlers and scammers throw their spanners to work with a view to defrauding as many victims as possible, women of easy virtues also see this period as a season of boom for their sinful and dehumanizing trade. Sadden still, our commercial drivers usually throw caution to the wind, overloading their vehicles and speeding with reckless abandon all in a bid to increase the number of trips in a day and rake in extra money during this period. The unfortunate outcome is usually increase in road mishaps and needless loss of human lives. These warped mindsets and extreme approaches to the ember months are unfortunate and condemnable. We view this period as one of stocktaking and evaluation than anything else. It ought, rightly, to be a season of looking back to see how far one has fared vis-à-vis the targets one has set for the fading year. And, on the basis of such retrospective evaluation, what becomes expedient is some level of restrategizing to ensure that the set goals are achieved before the year winds up. This, certainly, can be done without recourse to criminality or illegitimacy. We find it curious that many wait for the ember months to set in before they embark on an avoid rush and frenzy to get so many things done. Like they say in Africa, why wait for the war before embarking on arms acquisition? This is a cut and dried case of planlessness that is avoidable in the first place. We, therefore, call on individuals and even organisastions to resort to meticulous planning as well as set feasible goals at the dawn of every year as antidote to the needless fire-brigade approach to the end- of-year seasons. Since prevention, they say, is better than cure, the onus is on the security agencies, particularly the Police to ensure adequate security and a crime-free society during this period; the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) to evolve strategies that would reduce to the barest minimum incidents of road mishap and so on. Deltans and, by extension, Nigerians should realize that security is a collective responsibility. They should, therefore, collaborate with security agencies by volunteering useful information that would aid their operations and, more importantly, strive to live within the confines of the law throughout this season and beyond source http://thepointernewsonline.com/?p=25352 |
Re: Heralding The ‘EMBER' Months by Babafaros(m): 11:58am On Sep 02, 2014 |
Patience is the key to all doors of success, Patience teaches us the art of hard work, We should do this practice, so we can find the real concept of success and happiness. Let us be patient in this last quarter of 2014 |
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