The Inescapable: The Doomed Predator and The Invincible but Timid Prey

The Inescapable: The Doomed Predator and The Invincible but Timid Prey

They love life. They love life for the life itself or for nothingness. They are ready and in did are giving  up everything for their love for life. But they love no peace. Or perhaps they misconstrue love of life as love of peace. Truth is that peace like respect is neither given nor guaranteed to anyone or to any society by the goodwill of the others. One’s peace is guarantee by one’s demonstration of the ability and determination to secure it once threatened. Peace, like respect guaranteed by forces without is doomed and the beneficiaries are no better than slaves and the guarantor the master.

Thinking that they are giving peace a chance a people left their homes, villages, towns and cities and went to foreign lands. In the foreign lands they endured insults, racism, discrimination, assaults and all manners of humiliation and tribulation comparable to that that they faced at their native homes. Despite all sorts of humiliation and difficulties they face in the foreign lands these exiles persist and many succeed in finding a perceptional good life and peace guaranteed in many of  the nations that host them. Many of these exiles do not understand how their newly found life and peace are assured. They think that life and peace in their new homes are gifts from the host nations and its leaderships to the general citizenry. They neither see nor understand that the guarantee of life and peace in the host nations are the interplays of give and take among the citizens and that the outcome of these interplays is that none is giving nor taking. These exiles willfully fail to understand that the governments and the leaderships in the host nations are but umpires that serve to call out those that tend to tilt this interplay for selfish advantage. Many of these exiles know but choose not to acknowledge that many citizens of the host nations fought and many died and many are prepared to act to guarantee the mutual peaceful life that is manifest in their countries.  

By willfully choosing not to acknowledge that peace is neither given nor received but guaranteed by the willingness of every individual to protect their peace these exiles not only demonstrate their lack of an understanding of life but also their willful and ignorant abdication of responsibilities. These exiles' love for live is only unintelligent and guided by the primitive human instinct. Intellect they in did have after all they are humans but to shield themselves from any responsibility they chose to use only the primitive survival instinct of the human mind. To them to live regardless of the quality is the ultimate end. They fail to understand that one can never live unless one first accepts to die. They fail to accept that to live must be to die otherwise life means nothing. They understand not that never died is never lived. They fail to understand that it is never how long but how well. They fail to understand that on that day before their maker the question will not be how peaceable and quietly one lived but the truth one spoke or brought  to bear, the evil that one called out and the peace and general good one guaranteed. The question on that day will not be how far away one ran from evil but how genuinely one confronted it. Canal and Spiritually it has always be about that fight between the good and the evil and not the peace between these two and this is the ultimate work-fight the creator have charged all with.

Yes by their own standard, many of these exiles found economic fortune in the new lands and stayed. While others understandably neither found economic fortune nor peace in the new lands but yet stayed. Naturally he that leaves home to seek fortune returns home to celebrate and enjoy his spoil and even he that finds no fortune returns home to soothe his disappointment. This is not true with many of the exiles that leave Africa for good life in the West. So contrarily to the belief that African immigrants are merely economic migrants, African immigrants are political refuges of their own making and Nigerians in Diasporas are no exception. With so much wealth, so many loaves how can Nigerians go on self exiles to feast on crumbs in foreign lands? Since the very late seventies Nigerians have been leaving the country in droves for greener pasture any where in the world. Truth be told, and everything remaining equal no pasture is greener than Nigerian pasture. Only that Nigerians believe that this pasture that is theirs’ is not within their reach and that pastures in foreign lands are more accessible; what an error in reasoning. What is behind this mind set is not reason rather cowardice, lack of knowledge, lack of understanding, shamelessness and willful rejection of moral responsibilities.

These responsibilities every Nigerian owns to the independent fathers, to future generations, every man owns  to his wife, children, neighbor and even to conscience. Many of these exiles may not exercise intelligent recognition of the effect of this abdication of responsibilities and many yet deliberately chose not know the consequence of their cowardly dispositions. But every time in Nigeria a wife, son, daughter, sister, brother  mother, father, neighbor is deprived abjectly, meaningfully education,  adequate medical treatment, clean drinking water, nourishing food, freedom, civil or human right, justice, equal protection of the law then the willful abdication of responsibilities is made manifest; Every time a Nigerian is brutalized by the police or killed extra judicially; every time a Nigerian have to pay ransom to kidnappers to secure his or her freedom or life; every time a family buries a loved one murdered by kidnappers because the family could not pay ransom for the member's release; every time a Nigerian is extorted by the police, or by public official; all the times that police officers are poorly trained, poorly paid and poorly equipped;  every time a public official or any individual becomes the law or above the law; every  time a university student had to pay either in kind or cash for a passing grade; the dead public schools; every time a professor refuses to teach and ask for money in exchange for college credit; every time a public school teacher or a university professor is owned months in arrears for teaching services; all the time universities close for months and even years and students denied the opportunity to advance their education,  every time there are two societies in one, two neighborhoods one for wealthy criminal leadership and the other for the rest; every time a public official steals public fund; every time an election is marred with fraud; every time an unelected person in uniform or in plain clothe seizes the affairs of the government and dictatorially imposes personal will on the people; every time a judge takes bribe and tilts justice in favor of the most influential or the rich; every time a judge willfully or cowardly misinterprets or ill applies the law;  every time a public official, the sons, daughters, wife, concubines, and or relatives of a corrupt public official uses stolen public fund to attend  ivy-league colleges abroad or medical treatment abroad or live luxury life abroad; every time a governor launders pubic fund overseas; every time a president or his vice, a governor, a minister, a judge, a senior police official, a director of customs, or a senator exports public fund overseas for personal use; every time an election is rigged on half of an unelectable crook, every time a citizen is assassinated for differing political  affiliation or opinion; every time a woman had to sleep with an employer private or public for a job; every time a woman dies in labor or an infant dies due to inadequate medical facilities or services; every time a family looses a loved one in a senseless avoidable motor accident due to the deplorable conditions of the nation's road ways; every time a poverty driven ethnic clash occurs; every time public office becomes means for corrupt  personal enrichment instead of means of serving the people then willful abdication  of responsibilities is made manifest.

Nigerian is a nation blessed by the creator but ruined by ignorantly corrupt primitive leaders. By the very late 70s and horribly by the mid 80s to present, this potential great nation called Nigeria has been hijacked and ruined by barbarians who masked as leaders. The actions of these abhorrent criminal leaders have reduced Nigeria to a banana republic. The tools of trade of these barbarians are ethnic division, abuse of power and position, murder, assassinations, public and private corruption, theft, lawlessness, trampling of the law and the constitution. Over the years the barbaric leaders gingerly and stealthily deployed their tools. Today these corrupt leaders are brazen and shamelessly bold and their actions make medieval kings angelic. These officials serve none but selves and are gods into themselves. These people are gods of deconstruction, gods of chaos and children of perdition. They have called to questions the wisdom of the independent fathers who risked every thing, staked their lives with the conviction of securing and leaving for the future generations free, prosperous and democratic Nigeria. The behavior of these criminals is questioning the timing of Nigeria independent that the independent fathers labored so much for. Truth is that the independent fathers were right and these corrupt leaders are wrong and time will not only make these criminals face the strong arm of justice but they will be blunted from history and the period of their reign of terror declared the dark period, the period time stood still in Nigeria. History will hold the names of these criminals contravene to the constitution, to the law and to the universal morality. In the history book the names of these crooks will be prefixed with Con.

Faced with foreign forces armed to the tooth the independent fathers had little or no chance but they gave all that they had. From the lion’s mouth and with bare hands they wrestled and secured the promise of a free nation. Perhaps, it is not so correct to say that the independent fathers successfully fought for Nigeria independence with nothing. Veritably, the fathers had wisdom, knowledge, understanding, courage, will, determination, conviction, unity but above all they had love for the people. These characteristic are mightier than any man made weapon system. The fathers too loved life the real life. They imagine, and dreamed of the real life, they saw the real life and went for it. They secured the real life and the better life not just for themselves but for all generations. They understood that life in bondage, servitude, adversity, deprivation is no better than life not lived. Like the freedom fighters around the globe the fathers understood that life, peace, freedom, and natural rights are not gifts from the powerful or the corrupt to the powerless naïveté but from the creator to all people.

The independent fathers were also religious and understood that on the sixth day God saw that every thing he made was good and complete and so he rested on the seventh day. The fathers understood that the work of the creator he did finished and the remaining work rest with man. The fathers knew to pick up the tools of wisdom, knowledge, understanding, courage, will, determination, conviction, unity but above all the tool of love, love for the people. May the good Lord bless the souls of these Compatriots. In return for the great gift what did the fathers ask of us? Not much, nothing for themselves but that we love one another and build a free, prosperous and democratic union.   

Contrary to the lyrics of the national anthem the criminals masked as leaders that have led the nation since the mid eighties have let the country down and made in vain the work, the hard earned victory, the aspirations, and the love of the independent fathers. In the struggle for independence the fathers confronted the tyrannies of foreign invaders; the enemies without, today Nigerians are faced with the tyrannies of enemies within that bully and terrorize their way to power. These enemies within are no less dangerous than the ones before; in fact they have shown to be cataclysmically dangerous. To defeat these inside enemies Nigerians must employ no lesser than the tools the independent fathers used. These enemies can and must be defeated but make no mistake these enemies are primitively dangerous. Yes, these enemies are vicious and barbaric but they will be easily defeated by a united and determined people. They are thieves and outlaws who must act rabidly because law and time are never on their sides. These criminals know that they have no moral  leverage and legitimacy to put a coherent and intelligent fight. And the question is whether Nigerians are prepared to stand, defend and protect that which the independent fathers staked theirs lives for. Would the present generation let the hard earned freedom on the back of the patriot be lost to the vultures that dastardly prey on their own? Would Nigerians especially those in Diasporas standby watch while very few primitive cabals destroyed the gift of great nation that the founding fathers gave us in a platter of gold? Do Nigerians think that these criminals who have for long hijacked power will out of goodwill and of goodness of heart give up power? No, nowhere in the history of man have power usurpers ever voluntarily given up power. Frederick Douglas rightly said that power is never conceded voluntarily but is only restored to the people through the revolution of the deprived and the oppressed: A peaceful revolution,  Reverend  Martin Luther King JR said those that strife to stop a peaceful revolution only invites a violent one.  Do Nigerians think that the manner of good governance will fall from heaven. No, the work of the creator he did finish the remaining work is for the men. The French revolutionists were no less religious but they knew that the fight for good governance was not only right but Godly. The abolitionists in US were not less religious but they knew that faith without work is dead.  The revolutionaries in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya and across the Middle East are not less religious but they understand that among men freedom is never free. Nigerians, it is troubling for one to willfully fail oneself and the present generation but it is apocalyptically deadly for one to cowardly and willfully fail the unborn generations whose survivals and future consist on our present actions and or inactions. Nigerians, failure is okay but not doing any thing to save the country from the claws of these barbarians is blasphemous and  a sin that cries to heaven.

  

Nigerians in Diasporas have seen and know good governance, they have the resources, the number, the connections, and the influence but where is their will? They should remember that to whom much is given much is expected of him, no excuses will absolve us from the solemn responsibility to rescue the nation. For those of us in diasporas that have seen the benefits of truth and transparency in governance, know the great need for transparency in governance and understand the supremacy and the beauty of the rule of law but yet  collude with the criminally minded leaderships or serve as accessory for the criminal exportation of public wealth overseas; those of  us that engage in this mortal sin and crime will be exposed on the day of recompense. Nigerians in Diaspora at best have paid lip service to the deplorable situations in Nigeria because they think they have escaped abject poverty and lawless in the country. Events in Nigerian today have proven this 'escapecism' mentality as delusion. Today Nigerians in Diaspora while on trip to home land are the prime targets of the otherwise good citizens turned criminals by the actions of the criminal leaderships who have over the years hijacked power and liquidated the country. These barbaric leaders use the neglected Nigerian army and police force to protect selves and their neighborhoods while the general citizenry live at the mercy of armed bandits.

    

Truth is that there are so much Nigerians especially those in Diasporas, can do to make the country a better place for every Nigeria. But to realize a better Nigeria requires patriotic citizens; those citizens willing to scarify all for all and for the nation. Nigerians have had only but few patriots embodied in the independent fathers. Fortunately many citizens can easily become patriotic if only they can correctly answer the basic question of life: And that is, why are we here? For what purpose did the creator put us here on earth? Ignorance of this purpose is the reason many have failed to pursue cause larger than selves. Surprisingly, in every human endeavor, personal or public, legal or illegal, sinful or righteousness humans with the exception of few have unknowingly or misguidedly sought this creator's purpose.

For answer to the basic question of life please contact me at corevoci@gmail.com , connect to http://www.core-point.blogspot.com/ or wait for the part two of this missive.

Please send this email to any Nigerian you have his or her email address, by this doing you're part of this peaceful revolution that will usher in the promise of Free, prosperous and democratic Nigeria. Remember, that ocean you see can be made dry by removing one drop at time and that mighty thing made by adding one stuff at a time.

  

By Bawomanh.