UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL.
BY: TOSIN IYIOLA DAMILARE

It is only a blind and deaf person that will agree that Nigeria is currently a pacific country. Without blindfolding one another with sooth words Nigerians is not in any means living as a united people. They have been segregated over years by some powerful fellows. Am always imbuing of worrisome when I hear people saying Nigeria is in unity. If truly we are, why do we often hear cases of man inhumanity to man, intricacy cases of innocent people being killed by a group called BOKO HARAM?

The BOKO HARAM are massacre in nature, killing fellow countrymen like animal, bashing people to death like goat, and setting properties ablaze to burn to ashes. On what reasons should we deceive ourselves calling black white? When we knows it is black. Nigerians are not living like brothers and sisters rather than enemy to enemy, we abase one another and bring misfortune upon ourselves. The menace of BOKO HARAM can be traced to lack of unity and solidarity.

Indeed, if unity we truly stand on, it will be difficult for corruption, selfishness, maladministration, indiscipline, injustice and other social vices to penetrate into government parastatal and amidst the masses as a whole. No other words, Nigerians are the architect of their problem. In lack of love and disloyalty we associate together. We elect selfish leaders in egocentric of our pockets and expect miracle overnight. We ourselves are the problem of ourselves; we are the maggot in the faeces making it deleterious, we preach love but fail to practice it.

We pretend to be magnanimous in our act but we are beastial in our thinking. We don’t sow the seed of love among our youths but we expect to reap it. Perhaps, the problem of this country is convoluted to comprehend as our leaders’ characters depict they never care for the masses, they enslave us and rule with disdain. Corruption, selfishness and mismanagement have become culture and order of the day. Without love we can’t achieve something, even the bible confirmed it, says in love everything is acquire, love your neighbour and enemies like yourself but reverse is the case these days.

To combat and eliminate the problems of this country, we need to practice love and stand firm on solidarity and unity. Kick against corrupt leaders, and abnegate man inhumanity to man irrespective of culture or tribes. In one voice vote for a leader who has the welfare of people at heart, then it will be “unity we stand and divided we fall”.