Nigeria: What Is Truly The Way Forward?

What Is Truly The Way Forward?

We have come to the point in our nation, Nigeria and asking everyone deeply concerned about the economic, political, security and social crisis what is truly the way forward.

The young bullies the old as seen by the organised kidnappings of grandmothers for a huge ransom. Neighbors now oppress one another with power, position and wealth; the poor of the land are being crushed and isolated; the ignoble of the land insult and mock the honorable; many destinies have been manipulated and cut short; many have gone home before their time from human blood sacrifice needed by members of the pagan cults for protection, position and power.

The resultant effect of such human sacrifices are shrubs who grow into trees overnight recognizable with their gloomy wealth and positions. The resultant effect of such human sacrifices are servants who usurp their master's position. A strange experience witnessed in our time: servants riding horses; kings and queens begging for food and trekking under the hot sun. Highly educated and honorable men living in foreign countries. Manipulations of our era!

Dedicated and genuine leadership at the national level are almost non achievable. It is the time now where leadership is cheap, and anyone with money seeks it. The saying, Where money talks bullshit works is applicable. This man-made bullshit has gradually and overtime being translated into pain  felt by the people of the land, which goes beyond the physical. It is now a deeper and unstated pain of the heart that needs quick intersection. This pain has been experienced  before, but not in this magnitude. A national explosion of deep pain suffered by both the rich and poor. 

The catalytic agent for change and revolutionary point of departure is this deep pain experienced by the rich, poor, old, young, children and infants yet unborn.

Many are aware the heart beat of the nation is not functioning properly. Thus, many now seek solutions secretly and violently at all cost.

The receptivities of the moment (where anything not genuine works) would be long gone as that unstated pain spreads like wild fire causing mass scale destruction. This pain is hitting many in places they least expect like me in the case of my father. I remember it has not been the same since 2007 when he passed on in a mysterious way.

The receptivities of the moment cannot be held for too long. 

Nigerians are ready for a shuffling of the card that has been dealt with them over an extended period of time. 

Radical change that would rock the nation is not far- fetched. It does not matter your tribe or what community or cult you belong. The receptivities of the moment cannot be held for too long. Nigerians and especially the masses both home and abroad now seek one road. What is this new road?

I tell you brother and sisters: An epoch is around the corner where all the powerful men belonging to various political parties contesting for leadership positions would hate to be considered for any leadership role. None can boldly undertake to remedy the mounting external problems as the family front would have deep issues requiring immediate solutions. Therefore, it gets to that point where the external front would be ignored when domestic issues have not been addressed. There would be an interregnum: A period of groping and stumbling. Many would build houses, but would not live in them. The upper crust of the society would diminish in no time, and every kind of pride would be humbled. People would be confused and finding the next step to take and what road to take.

Many would run away from the same leadership, which many of them are fighting and killing to get in.

Conversations would be held within and privately: how do I put out fire burning outside when the internal fire cannot be quenched? How do I go to a more powerful war outside when I have been defeated within the mediocre internal war? This is the time where people would seriously consider cleansing first within the family unit putting away all those secret idols that have polluted the environment with human blood, corruption and immorality for such a longtime. 

Everyone would start looking for just one road to take: A road of justice, respect, humanity, values, love, kindness and peace. The former road that led to stumbling and groping would be closed forever. Where people begin to understand the deep need for the genuine as opposed to the short lived counterfeit. The mass mobilization for change period.

It is around the corner my people. Get ready!

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