I start this new 12 months with my first weekly opinion which is a serving to homily. What’s a homily? It’s a type of exhortation, a written or spoken expression meant to uplift and information, encouraging resilience and fortitude. It invitations reflection on one’s life, beliefs, and values, and serves as a beacon to assist people make moral choices. It helps the individuals stand sturdy with out capitulating to enemies or surrendering to those that ought to give up to them in conflict. What I write within the new 12 months is a serving to and soothing homily. However above all, this homily sends a transparent message to oppressors in Nigeria: Your days are numbered!
Because the historic surreal sojourn of the kids of Isreal in Egypt, and since their definitive departure from the torture chambers of Pharaoh who knew not Joseph, I’ve not recognized a individuals who have suffered as a lot within the fingers of their oppressors as Nigerians. These proficient women and men have endured battering and clubbing because the days of the navy. Within the aftermath of navy domination of the purlieu of energy, a transition to democratic rule was launched in 1999. Sadly, the federal government of the individuals for the individuals and by the individuals has not finished a lot for the individuals. The needle of progress has not moved a lot as a result of the destiny of our nation is basically managed by crafty and unscrupulous characters, who, just like the infamous Cruella De Vil, have trapped the individuals in an limitless cycle of hardship. They slither by means of authorities places of work, scheming and manipulating, digging deep holes within the nation’s assets. With one scandal after one other, with ugly tales of lacking funds, frenzied monetary recklessness, and public cash mismanagement, these leaders by no means appear to alter. However I can really feel it in my spirit, particularly on this New Yr that the times of the individuals’s oppressors are numbered.
In Nigeria, working in any department of presidency has, sadly, turn out to be a fast and straightforward route for anybody to amass wealth. The one qualification wanted to run for workplace is commonly a highschool certificates—whether or not real or fabricated. This lax requirement has paved the best way for a lot of unqualified people to flood the political panorama. The Nigerian veranda of energy is crammed with these figures, who, by means of deceit and manipulation, handle to carry energy over the educated and sensible.
However who’s responsible for this? The reply lies with the Nigerian individuals. They’ve allowed this free move to misrule—opening the door for theft, corruption, and destruction. Too lots of Nigeria’s politicians are uneducated, reckless, and uninformed. Their foremost agenda is to safe political energy and, as soon as in workplace, loot the general public purse. The guarantees of a brighter future for Nigeria are empty goals within the fingers of corrupt leaders. While you elect criminals to workplace, don’t anticipate any good to come back from it.
At one level previously, the federal government spent $1.545bn to buy 9 gasoline generators for energy era, whereas one other African nation spent simply $404m for 18 related generators. Because of this Nigeria spent thrice more cash on far fewer generators. In Brazil, Geometric Energy invested $12bn to generate 12,000 megawatts, whereas Nigeria spent $16bn to generate simply 2,500 to three,000 megawatts. But, regardless of these big expenditures, Nigeria nonetheless struggles with common energy provide. Numerous sums of cash have disappeared. Accompanying the heisting is accompanying an limitless stream of excuses for the nation’s struggles. I simply really feel it in my spirit that the times of the individuals’s oppressors in Nigeria are numbered.
Governments, as we now have learn in historical past, both contact lives for good; or torch human souls with unquenchable hearth of fright about right this moment, and hopelessness about tomorrow. The federal government is an efficient software that helps put smiles on the faces of the dejected and rejected if correctly put to work by males with conscience and character. If it really works proper, the individuals are blissful. But when it’s a frontier of waste and wickedness, the individuals groan. No person in Nigeria wins in any election till all Nigerians win their wars towards starvation, poverty, illness, and illness. What many of those oppressors don’t see coming will certainly come. Somebody ought to inform them they should feed the individuals, not fleece them. Any person ought to counsel them that they serve the individuals sincerely and in truth, not make them serfs.
Let all thieving individuals in authorities know that actions have penalties that may sooner or later manifest. For larcenous leaders, these penalties can be detrimental, and so they might go a protracted distance hitting their youngsters and grandchildren. The season of karma turns into the judgment day. Sadly, grasping, gluttonous, depraved, and larcenous leaders, don’t see it coming.
Crossing into 2025 could be likened to crossing the Crimson Sea. The long run is unsure, however we step ahead with hope. We pray for enchancment, for higher climate in our religious lives, for better pleasure, louder testimonies, and solutions to our unanswered prayers. We yearn for a decision to our unresolved issues and for a life that’s extra livable than ever earlier than. And our message should at all times exit with out ceasing to the individuals’s oppressors: Your days are numbered.
Nigeria is at present in all method of bother, albeit, by selection. However her present issues are usually not everlasting as a result of, I’m satisfied, they weren’t made everlasting by God. If the solar withdraws itself every day and is changed by the displaying of the moon, then no situation is everlasting. Nigeria is pathetically problematic, and its governance is sophisticated and sophisticated. The revamping of the nation is past one man’s name of obligation. It’s past one particular person from one area or faith; past one one who speaks in a single sure approach and who builds round himself a sure creed and breed of individuals. To assume opposite to my assertion is a ginger towards a false and childish hope. It then turns into crucial for all our fingers to be on the wheel collectively lest the ship spins right into a wreck. We should not relent in telling the individuals’s oppressors that their days are numbered!
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