NIGERIA WILL RISE UP AGAIN -JUSTICE WROTE I will rather live in a failed country and be a successful individual than vice versa. My father, so many years ago told me that failure is a choice. Also, in the pages of the few motivational books I have been opportune to read, ‘failure sets in when you stop trying.’ Some even say that success means to rise up many times more than you have fallen. But, on this Independence period, I, Ordinary Justice, have no intention to motivate or confuse you. I also have no intention to say some ambiguous or impracticable stuff. On the contrary I shall be dropping what I call FACTS. In the 53rd year of this country and in the twenty something years I have trodden upon the soil of this our collectively called motherland, I see people wearing long faces as if they are bereaved. When I inquired, I found out that their headache is the failure of government rather the loss of a beloved one. Instead of rising up to the occasion and doing something to oust or transform the leadership, they gather for hours discussing and murmuring under the table about how the country and her leadership has failed. The end result of this long hours of unnecessary discussion and argument is that, they themselves end up in idleness. An expression I saw somewhere says, “An activist is not a person that discovers that the river is dirty but he who does something to clean it up.” The thing is, ‘As we never chop belle full for this country, there is no need expending the little energy we have arguing about the failure of government.’ In your locality, just try and be the change that you crave for. Rather than discuss the failure of this country, do your best not to contribute to her already decaying image. Always resist the temptation of sitting in your small office, school or home arguing about the leadership of this nation and blablabla; that’s a waist of precious time. If you must complain or probably argue, find your way to Nigeria Info, 95.1FM Abuja, Radio Nigeria and so many other media houses in the country. This way, your words will fall on the right ears and your grievance, I suppose, will be properly noted. Or better still, you can write to the National assemble or even the Presidency like I’m writing right now. If you ask me, instead of wailing and complaining to everyone you see on the road, I will rather you take to the street and protest PEACEFULLY. I used to tell people that until we decide as individuals not as a nation, to do the right things, we will forever continue going round and around. Until we stand out as individuals to say NO to corruption and other issues that has held us down, we will continue to sweat under air conditioner. ‘Forget’ Mr. President and do what you have got to do! Sincerely, sometimes I don’t even remember that I have a governor in my state until I hear his siren on the highway. However, I wake up each day and try as much as possible to do my best diligently. Nigeria may have failed in her fifty third year, but God forbid that you and I will fail. Let’s, to the best of our ability do our best every passing day. If fellow countrymen and women like the late Albert Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Chimamanda Adichie, Emeka Anyoku, Blessing Okagbare, Asa, Tuface and so many others could rise above the failures of this country, then why not you? Nigeria may have failed woeful or however you want to put it, but I, ORDINARY JUSTICE (aka O.J) will NEVER fail! Of course, I have got a heavenly Father who does not fail. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE!
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:06:57 +0000
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