SAVE NIGERIA!

Dear fellow Nigerians, our dear country is becoming more and more dangerous each passing day. Everywhere we go it is the cry of the victims, friends or families of the victims of a crime. No day passes by without the news of kidnapping, theft, robbery, killings, ritual, etc. One of the major reasons these crimes are been committed is as a result of much poverty and joblessness in the country. This evil of impoverishment is a deliberate system enshrined in the mainstream of governance before and after independence by successive governments and accepted by naive masses who will never see beyond their nose.

However, I am not justifying the crimes neither supporting them, but honestly speaking, wherever poverty reigns a godless person would not think twice of doing something very deadly or uncalled for, for the sake of acquiring money in order for him to discharge his responsibilities. It takes the Grace of Almighty Allah, the Exalted, to shun evil in order to meet the end means in such society. The system we operate as a nation encourages corruption in money acquisition. Those who have jobs could not survive with their take home, while a very large number of graduates is unemployed. Most employers take the advantage of high level of unemployment to grossly underpaying their workers. Government agencies in charge of workers welfares and the so called NLC are in their payrolls.

Consequently, the nation is gradually tilting towards anarchy. Every now and then we live in a state of perpetual fear, when we are walking in the street, driving, when in any gathering, in places of worship, in schools, in the market, in our places of work, medical institutions, etc, we are being engulfed by fear. Poverty is the root cause of this unprecedented evil.

It is not a curse but should the country remain in this state, we are yet to see the worst of this criminals. We may have not been affected in any way by all the crimes and atrocities been committed so far, but we are vulnerable and prone to experience it should things go on this way unabated.

Just imagine, our kids are now been scared of going to schools, especially the ones in the boarding schools. When they are there, we are so much scared with the thought of what could happen to them in the next moment. As a parent, I can imagine the pains and agony of the parents of the children that were kidnapped recently. The hirelings are easily lured into this gruesome venture by certain incentive which the country of theirs could not provide.

We should not keep quiet over all that is happening and keep supporting this failed government hoping things will get better. As far as I am concerned, this government is a total failure. Why do we keep deceiving ourselves? Why can't we be sincere with ourselves for once? Why don't we wake up from our slumber and admit we were wrong all the while supporting this government and even the past governments. They are one and the same in different guise. It is total overhauling we need not recycling the old mediocre that misruled us. If we had looked critically into the affairs of this nation, then we would have seen that the evil perpetuators of these crimes are always a step ahead of the clueless government.

We define our fate in this country, if we want a changed and a better Nigeria we have to take the right step. In as much as we keep silent and still doing the wrong thing as citizens of this great country, we will never get to the promised land and our generation will suffer much more than we have suffered.

Ya Allah! Protect and liberate this country from the hands of its foes, bi haqqi Muhammad wa ale Muhammad.

اَللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَّعَجِّلْ فَرَجَهُمْ

Assalam aleikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh!


Farida Oizamsi Sanni
Mahjubah of Ahlulbait (A.S.)