HOLD YOUR LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE.

By:
Ajukura, Fidelis O.
ajukurafidelisobi@gmail.com
07031523329

In a society where people think through their stomach: where hunger and poverty is rife, people are likely to betray themselves. They lie against themselves - call a thing white even when they know it is black. Every so often, they are seen milling around politicians; running dishonourable errands, singing mirthless songs, extolling inglorious deeds just to get a morsel of bread. These sort of obsequious characters can do anything to defend their benefactors action(s) regardless of how morally perverse or reprehensible they are.

While peanut is shared among the hungry and malleable supporters to defend every tactless policy, some do not even need a stipend to do the unspeakable as far as they have the privilege of picking off the crumbs from the table. Obviously, the only thing that can emanate from this type of damning sychophancy is backwardness.

Rather than make progress, backwardness will continue to take a tole on us. While the politicians steal and loot our common wealth, many members of the society continue to shower them with immeasurable encomium even when their atrocities are known by the babes and suckling.

It is said that the way you behave is certainly the same way your visitors will behave. If you choose to defecate in your living room, your visitors will have no choice than to do same when they are pressed. Many of our leaders have turned their communities to their cash cows. They are obstacles to the growth and development of their communities. They quietly collude with the foreigners to obfuscate and retard the progress of their community in order to further their selfish ends. Overtime, these foreigners become convinced that the people do not deserve anything good - they are like lavatory paper, only good for wiping the anus. With this conviction, they begin to treat the people with unmitigated levity: In this way, they begin to deprive the people of their benefits as well as rights even without recourse to their collaborators, the leaders.

What the leaders have succeded in doing in this regard is to truncate the progress of their communities for selfish reasons. These type of greedy leaders have no iota of love for their communities - when they have the opportunity to, on behalf of their communities engage foreigners in negotiations, they willfully sabotage their people. They struggle to handle contracts they know absolutely nothing about. In road construction for instance, they collect contract of constructing roads with two side drainages but end up delivering a substandard road with no drainage at all.

Since they have deliberately created a situation where people swim in abject poverty; all they need to do is throw some few naira in the air and praises will begin to rain.

In most of our communities, things work abysmally even though we are blessed with both human and natural resources. No water. No medical facilities. No power supply. No road etc. The most pathetic is the experience of the oil/gas producing communities. In fact, it does appear to me that; the more wealth a community possesses, the more it is likely to be attacked by the 'ravenous wolves'. Oil producing communities are among the most ravaged in Nigeria. This agony is not inflicted on the people by foreigners but by members of their elite class.

What possibly could be the solution to this menace? To resist the temptation of being swayed by the few naira that is hauled at us by our greedy leaders but to hold them accountable for whatever untoward situation they have precipitated us into. We must, without fear of intimidation and victimization demand for accountability of their stewardship.

Remain blessed!

16/03/2021