49 years after, Why we can’t wait…

Most of us were born after independence and during the developmental stages, we witnessed several agitations and upheavals in villages, towns, hamlets, cities and regions agreeing to disagree and disagreeing to agree. We saw the building of trust and brotherhood in action; and also saw in a blink the dissolution of that trust and the creation of the virus of disunity.

Today that virus has spread through our veins co-habiting our DNAand catching on our offspring. This is the most pathetic bit; how did it get to our DNA. The virus has bred corruption, egocentrism, hatred, confusion and disorder.

Painfully, there is nothing I will say here you don’t already know; as at 1985 Nigerians don’t really need a visa to come to UK, infact some people were in the habit of parting in UKduring the weekend and resuming for work in Lagoson Monday. That was a fact. All you need is just N300. 1985 to date is 24 years and it sounds like fairy tales that this actually happened.

If you can do a mental reflection of THEN and NOW; and try moving a bit to the future, you ll begin to see the rays of danger and uncertainty. Unfortunately we don’t have any choice but move forward. And for us to survive, we must fight these dangers and abolish the uncertainty and enthrone sanity.

Let me ask you a very sincere question, how long do you want be in UKeven with your British passport? If you are not bothered, please don’t bother to read on but if you think that some day or soon you want to belong to where you will be referred to as first class citizen then this issue becomes food for thought.

I came in contact with a Ugandalady just yesterday who told me she visited her children schooling in Kampala. She went further to say she is frustrated with the educational system in UKhence her decision to send them home.. Wait for this…. in her kids’ school in Kampala there are many Nigeria children and the proprietor confirmed that she receives on a daily basis so many email enquiries from Nigeria. I wept for my country, 49 years after we are patronizing Ugandafor what? At 49 a man/woman is a full adult and if s/he has not found his/her bearing then something extraordinary must be done.

This is why we can’t wait!This is why you have to decide whether we should join hands, rub minds, walk the street, convert a friend, share our vision and take action; or sit down and look. Waiting could be positive but if allowed for longer grows like cancer and eats up the zeal of determination. You will end up static and defeated.

I want to greet you my compatriot, I want to crave your indulgence just for today to reflect on our motherland; also ask yourself if there is anything you can contribute to make an impact. I always use this cliché – if you don’t make a difference you don’t matter, it spurs me to work creatively harder.

I will sincerely thank you for sharing in this vision; a vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare, thanks to Jenny for that..

Hope is alive; you could see it on the web, watch it on Nigerian channels, hear it over the phone and read it in the press. The supreme hope is the hope that is within; it burns, it recreates itself, it is divine and does not die. That is the kind of hope that sustained the Iranian protest and that was the hope that energized the black movement in America. And that is why we can’t wait

That hope is in us!

Happy anniversary!!!!!

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