Yes! Something is responsible for the degeneration and deterioration of many
individuals today. This thing in question is responsible for why we are top on
the corruption index. It is the same thing responsible for why the poor remain poor though not their wish.
It is the same reason why the rich here is
over-rich and would aspire to be called the richest in the world if given a
slightest chance. After all, many on this earth are already rich in Africa-out
of enslaving the masses. Yet, this thing is responsible for why we have leaders
who fight instead of reason.
It is responsible for why we have graduates
that do not know how to spell their names, not to talk of effectiveness and
accuracy in office. At this point, I know you have a question you want to ask
me and it is ‘what
is this thing called?’
the thing that has taken us as a show of shame and slavery.
Money
has made us slaves such that we now worship, adore and praise it more than we cherish good name (if not our names, then Nigeria’s).
Money as powerful as it is put nooses on the
necks of some; it drags them like goats for slaughter. No special definition
for money due to its special recognition as a general voice used daily. Many
have turned it and made it a “gods” and tends to be demonic.
The rulers
(not leaders now) on top are slaves of money such that they embezzle
even for generations unborn at the spate of “democracy” -yes,
democracy of kleptocracy. They embezzle to sharpen their ego too and now that the 2015 election
draws near, they all yean to get what they
want with money.
O MONEY,
thou art wicked! While our rulers finger the national treasury, the peasants wished to be rich but no means to
such wish, he would die on bad roads, his male children would be used as political mercenaries in the next election, his female children will hawk what is under their skirts, he would
remain in darkness(physical darkness) if not
for eternity, his children again would be
exploited by uncalled lecturers for good grades, cannibalized by police-slaves, director-slaves,
executive officer-slaves and all kinds of
slaves.
In this
time of slavery, the
world knows Nigeria to be slave. Robert Mugabe
last year in Zimbabwe fires,”
are we now like Nigeria where you have to reach your pocket to get anything done? You see, we used to go to Nigeria and every time we went there, we had to
carry extra cash in our pockets to corruptly
pay for everything. You get into a plane in
Nigeria and you sit there and the crew keeps
dilly dallying without taking off as they want
you to pay them to fly the plane”(the Nation, march 23,2014 Back
page).
So a brother in Africa could have eyes so
sharp like an eagle to know that we also have aero-slaves? Now political-slaves
call for his head? Did Mandela not cry enough? Did Fela not cry enough? Did
Achebe not cry?
Did
they not cry for us money-slaves to leave the
path we chose-the path of adoration of money,
the path of destruction, destruction of good
names and destruction of Nigeria ultimately.
It is
time Nigerians, stand up, brace up, shun money slavery, and embrace honesty as
honesty is the best policy to a greater Nigeria.
WRITTEN BY:
KOLAWOLE PAUL TAIYE
FGX AMBASSADOR
KSU, KOGI STATE.
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