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



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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