My heart is heavy, my spirit is weak, my mind is empty and hands are shaking; confused, vexed, angry and feeling like a walking bomb killing every single local government chairman, every governor, every minister, every pastor, every imam and anyone who contributed to the monumental mental slavery of the Nigerian people. The destruction of the moral & structural fabric of the Nigerian state is enough wickedness to last generations; I am perpetually vexed; particularly with what our people have become. Our gullibility, our docility, our shallowness, our functional and educational illiteracy, our mental corruption, our developmental weakness and our leadership emptiness is killing me softly; it is draining me mentally, it is hurting me greatly and the revolutionary anger is so intense, that sometimes I feel like a walking time-bomb.
My fellow Northerners have spent so little time aggressively seeking workable solutions to the Almajiri menace, The very deep educational gap, the continuing Islamic extremist and fundamental ideology penetration within our youthful population, who are becoming addicted to violence extremism. But, they have been very vocal with the issues of hijab, issues of religion, issues of continuing gender suppression and the struggle over local and state governmental handouts. Our local and state governments have no fear of we the people, they do whatever they want, they know we will be religiously occupied with non-issues and trivialities and they have been prophetic to say the least. Oh; What a waste we are to humanity?...
My fellow Easterners have spent so little time asking their local, state and spiritual leaders to account for the Billions in Federal Allocations, The Billions from Church offerings, The damaging infrastructural problems, the failures of regional industrialization and slowing education capacity of our youths. But, they have been vocal with the fraud call BIAFRA, they have been vocal in their defence of CORRUPTION, they have been active in creating anti-Nigeria sentiments and they have been blinded to their uniqueness in national diversification; Oh; How petty can a people with so much industry, be on the national stage?....
My brothers and sisters from the Niger Delta have spent so little time seeking solutions to the menace of our environmental degradation, the massive poverty in the region, the educational backwardness of our people, the lack of industrious mentality and the continuing moral decay in the region. Trillions from Federal Allocation, 13% Derivation, NDDC, Amnesty etc has yielded more poverty, illiteracy, infrastructural decay, immorality and mental slavery. Tompolo and Private Militias are now the key businesses of the Niger Delta people. Bursting pipelines, destroying our society, terrorising our people and becoming mini-gods is the new reality in the the Niger Delta. Oh; How can we so cursed with a natural resources that has made nations so strong?
From the South West, we have spent so little time in addressing the leadership corruption of our politicians at the state and local levels, we have allowed all our leaders to loot in the name of God, used our churches to milk the poor dry, our vanity has fuelled our corruption of the people's resources. As educated as we are in this region, we are the most used. The N86/86.50k PMS pricing is least implemented in the South West; because most of our political leaders are the marketers and they are our church members and fellow Muslims. The people must therefore hustle to death, while we pray for corruption to forever be present in our daily lives. Oh; what is the benefit of an educated people?
If every state government in the north of Nigeria is forced to commit N100million annual to the menace of Almajiris alone and more resources to the education of the most vulnerable, it will go a long way in helping to start a process of real education change. If every state government in the Niger Delta commits Resources and effort toward the rehabilitating and the provision of special education for the most vulnerable people in the creeks of the Niger Delta, it will start a process that can change the region. If every state in the South East dedicates resources, time and effort towards the industrialization of the region, there would be no need for the fraudulent BIAFRA agitation. If every state in the South West enforces the new PMS price in the region, the most vulnerable people in the region will not end up suffering even more. If only Nigerians are really serious about change, our leaders will begin to be afraid of what the people can do in the face of this unprecedented suffering of 90% of the Nigerian population.
But, because we as a people have failed to launch; our leaders are just too comfortable perpetuating suffering on us in continuum. PMB cannot do it alone...What are you doing to change this country, one step at a time?
It is 130 years since the death of Karl Marx. But why should
we commemorate a man who died in 1883? In the early 1960s the then Labour Prime
Minister Harold Wilson declared that we must not look for solutions in Highgate
cemetery. And who can disagree with that? In the aforementioned cemetery one
can only find old bones and dust and a rather ugly stone monument. However, when we speak of the relevance of Karl Marx today
we refer not to cemeteries but to ideas—ideas that have withstood the test of
time and have now emerged triumphant, as even some of the enemies of Marxism
have been reluctantly forced to accept. The economic collapse of 2008 showed
who was outdated, and it was certainly not Karl Marx. For decades the economists never tired of repeating that
Marx’s predictions of an economic downturn were totally outdated. They were
supposed to be ideas of the 19th century, and those who defended them were
dismissed as hopeless dogmatists. But it now turns out that it is the ideas of
the defenders of capitalism that must be consigned to the rubbish bin of
history, while Marx has been completely vindicated. Not so long ago, Gordon Brown confidently proclaimed “the
end of boom and bust”. After the crash of 2008 he was forced to eat his words.
The crisis of the euro shows that the bourgeoisie has no idea how to solve the
problems of Greece, Spain and Italy which in turn threaten the future of the
European common currency and even the EU itself. This can easily be the
catalyst for a new collapse on a world scale, which will be even deeper than
the crisis of 2008.
