When the people fear
their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there
is liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The Nigeria of our
dream is a land of liberty. We want it to be a country where government will
stop to take us for a ride. We should endeavour to make the government to
respect our views about every policy they intend to introduce. But if they
don’t have respect for us, our liberty is but a big dream. Nigeria government
since independence has always been unfair to Nigeria. We can't count on any of them that has been fair on Nigerians. They ought to have
repaired the breach of colonialism, but they deliberately started
neocolonialism. If the all the government that we have had since independence
has been committed to the welfare of every Nigerian, life expectancy in Nigeria
should be at 90 years plus by the reason of the abundance of natural resources. Our human resources hold sway in the world over.
The agenda is how we
can readily call our leaders to order. We need to make them to fear us or we
will taken for granted all our lives and keep on day dreaming for a change that
is not imminent. The first step is to place every aspect of our governance
under close public scrutiny. We should let go of assumptions and start to ask
questions. We must
make them to fear us. If Nigerians had not vehemently stood their ground about subsidy, we will be buying a litre 350 Naira by now. We stood our ground and said no to tyranny and we were respected but betrayed by a give and take labour movement.
But as it is in the present day Nigeria, we fear still our
leaders. We need not fear them but confront them. After all, The government is being managed by incapable persons. We will say no to tyranny by saying no to this present era of selection where imposition is the
order of the day. We must endeavour to have a credible election. Our choice of
leader must be accepted. It doesn’t matter what anyone wants. Edo State
indigenes just made a choice that was engendered by good governance. It should
be like this anytime we go to pools. 2015 is around the corner, we must whittle
how we it to be now.
This is what to do in a
time like this to seize our future and that of this emerging generation from
the hands of these losers and looters, opportunists, pilferers, and corrupt
people at the helms of affairs. This is what to do now in to make Nigeria of our
dream real. We must arise and say no to tyranny and corruption. We will get there but we must take the responsibility to take us there.
God bless Nigeria!
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