Our world is filled with both Good and Evil and it is left to us to utilise our God given wisdom to decipher between right and wrong and hopefully follow the path of righteousness.
The era we are in is filled with so much chaos, so much evil which overshadows the little good that still exist. All things being equal, when we wake up at dawn, we get down on our knees and thank Our Maker for preserving our lives and continue with our daily chores.
Personally whenever I spend some time with a relative in a house with a patio overlooking a river, I feel a sense of tranquillity, peace and awe with nature. I take a look around and see the bananas, plantains, mangrove and other vegetative plants growing on the river bank. I look at the river when the tide’s high and see the fishes swimming or causing ripples beneath or the birds diving down for the kill and when the tide’s low, I can see the crabs and periwinkles all about the riverbed. All these get me thinking about how Awesome Our Creator is.
Sometimes I let my mind wonder and think hard about the various happenings around the globe and recall predictions from notable personalities (clerics and the likes of the infamous Nostradamus) and can’t help but come back to Earth and think of our dear country, Nigeria and its apparent decline in virtually all areas of our existence as a country be it the economy, social welfare, health, education and the list just goes on and on.
My people, please help me understand where are we heading to? One minute we are having problems like strikes and administrative issues in health, oil, and education where the rate of student admission is alarmingly high and as such we churn out half baked graduates due lack of required attention in relation to student-teacher interaction; next minute might be security issues with Boko Haram, MEND or some other aggrieved Nigerian sect.
This period we seem to have renewed our air disaster syndrome with not just one but two crashes in Lagos and the Nigerian cargo plane in Ghana. I couldn’t help think of the lives that had been lost; of people who had become fatherless, motherless, widows, widowers and orphans or simply put innocent blood that had been shed. You may not comprehend the trauma of losing a loved one until it happens to you because it happened to me though not via air crash. I still have sleepless nights trying to make sense of it all.
Please can anyone explain or help others and I understand why a plane that was known to be faulty, undergoing maintenance and still had problems be ALLOWED to take to the skies? At least you and I heard a lady (probably affiliated to DANA Airlines) and a legislator (who had previously flown in the ill-fated airplane to Uyo around May 22nd 2012) attest to this claim despite the denial from DANA Airlines management. So please tell me Why? Why?? Why??? Must so much blood be spilled before it dawns on us that the country is heading downhill?
Education is nothing to write home about otherwise our legislators should enact a law compelling everyone including themselves to train their families and wards in Nigeria. We strive to go to school and graduate and end up in the unemployment market and pray for someone to notice our CVs despite their scanty nature (especially for the fresh graduates). How do employers expect to get good employees with 5 and above years of experience when they rarely give jobseekers opportunities to prove themselves? Academics help but it isn’t everything; we should thing of the individual’s vocational skills as well. Take a look at Bill Gates and Face Book’s Mark and our very own Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka.
The Health sector is another headache. Whenever there is a strike, services are skeletal and no doctors to treat people and as such the fatality are high. If one is lucky meetings are held, consensus reached BUT the crux of the matter is implementation which unfortunately Nigeria has a problem in carrying out.
There are so many other aspects of our lives that need help especially Divine Assistance, because we don’t want to listen to ourselves. As for corruption, May God help us because it is now deeply rooted in our psyche to the point that even though we have EFCC and other agencies, we Naijans know how to circumvent the law.
So my people where are we heading and is what we have today the legacy we’d keep for our children of tomorrow? We seriously need to rethink otherwise…
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