Independence!!!
A country celebrates independence when there is "independence"
Nigeria celebrates 57years of dependence all in the name of independence...
Let's not go far.. A question for all of us.. Are we really free?? Do we have or have acquired what it takes to celebrate independence as in freedom??
How can we celebrate when a child doesn't have right to education??,, how can we celebrate when the hospital management keeps a patient hostage simply because one can't pay for treatment given?? How can we celebrate when even pastors are scared to stand on altars to preach so as not to get burnt by same country men??? We talk of independence and an arm of the government still fights for independence till date..
We await Independence Day and 80% Nigerians are not free from poverty..
A Nigerian finds it difficult to complete square meals for the day and you expect him to join the rich at the eagle's square celebrating freedom when he's still in the chains of hunger!!!
We talk about independence and a representative of a people can stand on the floor of the green house to say NGOs should be checked and balanced...
We talk about independence and there are still developmental bills waiting to be passed in the national assembly through its readings.. #sad
Oh what a country.. I weep for this great Nigerian race!!!
Independence can only by be when we are dependent of ourselves...
In 1914, Lord Lugard the great politician of the queen’s Kingdom sat in an office with a ceiling fan that blew heat instead of breeze hanging from the ceiling. That day, with blue blood flowing from a royal pen, he mixed sand and salt and proffered the result as a country.
That was then, almost half a decade of in fighting by the constituent components of that result, the royal pen still stood in the favour of that hot afternoon’s decision . in this salt-sand mixture, there was the north – predominantly Muslim and the South - predominantly Christian. These constituent components fought several cold wars, so many felt that the mixture was wrong and doomed from the heat of that afternoon but the forces kept the result sacrosanct.
It was 1960,and amidst all the ant Hill challenges the mixture result faced, they bind it one hot afternoon. They gave it independence. Now the dictionary quotes that term to be “a state of freedom from external control and internal insurrection”. 57 years after the pomp and pageantry of that other afternoon, the union of the salt and sand still suffers chemical and physical problems.
Today, in the North West East and South, the people in this contraption silently scream for a revolution, one that should begin from the homes of each. A revolution that will check the very essence of the result of that hot afternoon. A revolution that extracts religious differences from the unity of national life. A revolution that will teach to posterity, the mixture’s past, build the present and determine its future.
Bearing in mind the deteriorating turn of events now in the mixture result called - Nigeria, it is evident that big political talks by the wordsmiths will not salvage the existence of the country, neither will insensitive politicking do good. Rather, a pure revolution the will touch every constituent component of this mixture is the way forward.
Can a country that imports virtually everything including tooth pick call itself an independent state??
Too sad because my beloved Nigeria falls into this category.. Even our so-called mineral endowment is useless if outsiders don't buy from us.. Oil is the main aim of the nation but just three refineries...
With anger I ask us... Why do we even have guts to mention "freedom" when the country isn't free??
A leader once said the hope of the country lies in the future of the upcoming ones..
We as a people preach about saying the youths are the leaders of tomorrow yet they are not given the chance to showcase their God given young talents as regards the development of the country..
There is always the case of embezzlement of government funds by individuals yet,, the future of the said country are gathered in a place not conducive and are labelled "internally displaced persons" otherwise known as the IDPs...
Before we join the big wigs in the country to celebrate,,, let's ask ourselves this: IS THE COUNTRY WORTH CELEBRATING AFTER 57YEARS???
written by:Oyameda Eddie &Onwutuelo Donatus
#letsmakenaijagreat...
