Our need for repentance from
our corrupt way of life is really rather urgent. This is regardless of the fact that past and
present rulers of Nigeria think that they are having a ball marauding this
country the way they are doing.
We have a National Assembly
that only question the President when they want additional monetary
allocation. Our National Assembly is
only reactive in their approach to legislative business. They are never able to come up with
anything. Whenever their failure has led
to a major national disaster, they gladly hurriedly organize ad-hoc committees
purportedly to investigate. They end up
collecting bribes from those they are investigating. They turn around and make huge claims for
sitting in such committees in allowances.
We have a National Assembly that takes bribe from Ministers to clear
them for appointment and to approve their annual budgetary proposals for
appropriation.
Among our Ministers, we have
had a Works and Housing Minister who squandered N300 billion without finishing
a kilometer of road whether repaired or freshly completed and never created a
single housing estate. We have had a
Power Minister who squandered US$16 Billion without providing a candle but
instead left the power generation programme of the country in a state of
confusion. We have had an Interior
Minister who committed suicide in prison without accounting for more than
US$300 million for National Identity Card which was never issued to anybody in
Nigeria.
We have had and still have a
Presidency who gallivants around the globe attending even wedding ceremonies
when there are national disasters in our country.
A former Managing Director
of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported that all the money stolen by
Nigerian leaders from Independence to date if laid on the ground could reach
the planet Mars seven times and back.
Nigeria has had oil wealth
for more than four decades now. There is
no single motorable road in Nigeria except for the roads built by three
governors in the South-South and South-East in their states.
As an oil producing nation
of one hundred and sixty million people, there are only four refineries that do
not function in which more than one hundred billion Naira each is spent
annually for their ‘turnaround’ maintenance without any result.
We ought to have nothing
less than fifty functioning refineries now for just the Nigerian market not
talk of the West African market begging for attention.
The Nigerian educational
system is in complete collapse. A state
like Abia, people go to secondary school on school premises without any roof on
the buildings. Some schools have only
one building with a roof and that is the Principal’s office and it is leaking
profusely that when it rains, the Principal packs all his records into his car.
The above are mere tips of
the iceberg. This country has been
robbed blind by pretender leaders. I
prefer to call them rulers. Leaders are
usually righteous people helping their people.
What we have in Nigeria are rogue rulers.
The whole situation is
worsened by the kind of followers that Nigerians are. Nigerians are the most idiotic citizenry I
have countered in my existence. I have
travelled around a little bit and have also read and studied history of several
peoples and cultures. There is nowhere I
have encountered the type of imbecilic citizenry as I have seen in
Nigeria. They either do not care about
the roguish rulers astride over them or they are waiting for their own
opportunity to put their dirty hands on the pie.
Otherwise, how can you explain
the fact that there are no regular demonstrations in Nigeria against the
decimating fraudulence of Nigerian rulers?
How can anyone explain the fact that there is the type of governance in
a place like Abia State for instance where for 13 years now, all the Federal
allocation and the internally generated revenue have been stolen and no one is
demonstrating?
We must stem the tide of
corruption by repentance or change from stealing public resources to building
our society with the resources which God had so generously endowed us. If not, our slide into general and widespread
anarchy cannot be avoided. And those who
have stolen from the country all these while would lose everything they have
illicitly amassed as riches. All their
buildings, cars, estates and all other fraudulently acquired material things
would be laid desolate before their own eyes.
What this combination of
thieving rulers and irresponsible citizenship has created includes but not
limited to the following:
- · Militancy as we have in the Niger Delta
- · Area Boys, Girls, men and women who ask for ‘marching ground’ from even industrialist who would be providing jobs for their children and families
- · Governors who ask for bribe before an industry could be sited in their states.
- · Kidnapping for ransom as we have everywhere in the country right now
- · Terrorism as is poured upon us now by Boko Haram
- · Incessant highway robberies
- · Increasing home invasions by armed robbers
- · Scandalous trafficking in persons
- · Drug trafficking
- · Scandalous ritual murders
- · Scandalous corruption in high and low places
- · Unemployment
·
Mind boggling
Prostitution among both male and female youngsters
The so-called leaders of
Nigeria are procurers of these crimes and sponsors of the criminals who carry
them out in most cases.
These are sins against the
order of the Creator of the heavens and the earth. The sufferings of Nigerians, a people who
have been so blessed with lots of human and material resources, is as a result
of the wickedness of people who have stolen authority and sovereignty and have
stolen all the resources of the land.
You call them leaders and I call them roguish rulers be they the British
colonists or the Nigerians who replaced them.
A curse has been placed upon
this land of Nigeria because of all the above evil perpetrated by the roguish
rulers of Nigeria since it became Nigeria.
In a book of scriptures, a Prophet prophesied thus:
“And
he said: Thus saith the Lord God – Cursed shall be the land, yea, this land,
unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, unto destruction, which do
wickedly, when they are fully ripe; and as I have said so shall it be; for this
is the cursing and the blessing of God upon the land, for the Lord cannot look
upon sin with the least degree of allowance.
Nigerian ‘leaders’ and all
those who have worked with them to create and perpetuate this wickedness
through corruption and the several other heinous crimes, militancy and
terrorism pervading the land now need to repent, otherwise, this land is cursed
for their sake and for them. This
country would collapse on their heads and they and their posterity shall become
a hiss regardless of how much money they have stolen.
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