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A Word For Nigerians by SavageGarden(m): 11:11pm On Dec 11, 2014 |
Why has fate been so cruel to us and why has our star dimmed and refused to shine brightly? Why do we always take ten steps forward and twenty steps backwards? Why is our case and example one of constant failure, ineptitude, defeat, shame, lack and incompetence? What is wrong with the Federal Republic of Nigeria and what plagues and afflicts the Nigerian people? Since 1960 every single one of our potential deliverers have failed. They have not been allowed to emerge and even when they do emerge they have not been allowed to succceed. They have either been killed, jailed, villified, belittled or destroyed by the system and the neo-colonial conservative forces that have sworn to resist change. Worse still the sheer naivety, nauseating timidity and simple lack of insight and foresight of the ordinary people, who seem to have cultivated an extraordinary capacity to tolerate injustice, incompetence, wickedness and evil in their land, does not help. As a matter of fact it is that attitude and that cowardly and weak mindset that has sustained the disasterous sytem that has held Nigeria captive since 1960. The average Nigerian would rather go to the church or to the mosque to bear his or her mind to the priest or imam and pray about his or her numerous challenges rather than march in the streets and demand a change for the better from their Government and President. Yet it is only in our country that men and women suffer from such a lack of firm resolve and such a sorry and tepid affliction. Karl Marx's view that ''religion is the opium of the masses'' has no greater meaning or significance anywhere in the world than in Nigeria where we all, in a most cowardly manner, hide behind the cleric and imam's ornate robes and refuse to insist on our God-given rights from the government and the state. What a tragedy we have become. We deserve nothing but pity. |
Re: A Word For Nigerians by SavageGarden(m): 11:12pm On Dec 11, 2014 |
If God raises a deliverer today it is the followership that will be the first to question his credentials, oppose him, condemn him, crucify him and kill him even though his mission and objective is to fight for them and improve their sorry lot in life.. That is the most tragic aspect of the situation. Yet things are getting worse by the day. Just heard on the BBC how 160 people were killed and buried in a mass grave by BH in some north western border town in Nigeria just yesterday. Worst still, quite apart from the working classes and the teeming and suffering poor masses both in the urban centres and rural areas, no less than 80 per cent of our University graduates in Nigeria are unemployed and have little hope for the future. We are faced with all this yet our people accept it all with a level of calm and stoicism that is utterly shameful and quite unnatural. Man is geared and configured to fight for his life and his future but not the Nigerian. |
Re: A Word For Nigerians by SavageGarden(m): 11:15pm On Dec 11, 2014 |
The Nigerian would rather sit down calmly whilst his oppressors cut his throat and he would even say a prayer for them as they do it. It is almost as if we have been bewitched or are under a spell. We have become a nation of sadists, masochists and sociopaths who do not value human life, do not care about the future of our nation or children and who do care that in just five years from now, if we continue sliding down this slippery slope, our country will be worse of than Congo Zaire. And of course once we get to that point the situation becomes irredeemable. |
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