Prophecies From a Nigerian Sailor: Echoes of The Hard Times

PROPHECIES FROM A NIGERIAN SAILOR: Echoes of The Hard times.

My nation NIGERIA is 59 years today as an independent entity, that should be well great news right? It should and sure it is but as adage says, once the monkey is reminded of his scar, his happiness dampens and more like a cold water has been thrown at his strength.

Relatively, you will agree with me that the joy of this celebration is plagued with diverse abnormalities and inadequacies. A land once flowing with milk and honey in ages past is now impoverished surprisingly below the poverty threshold. A land known for peace and tranquillity with no insignificant records of civil disturbance is now known for all shades of perpetual violence; ranging from terrorism, to kidnapping for ritual or for ransom purpose, banditry to just mention a few.

To say that no sector of the Nation's governance is working is also stale news and a repeat of already known fact, then I'm drawn to wonder where we got it all wrong as a Nation.
A mentor once told me, let's not think that the problem is in the land, No, the land is fertile enough for fruiting. If then that's the case, we have gotten it all wrong by planting the wrong seeds. The country is so as it is today because we have been gifted and as well appointed ourselves  some bad leaders in the past and present who have made things so hard for us by enriching their pockets end engaging themselves in various corrupt practises, and in the stead of rooting them out of the system, we have and continuously continually give them the power to keep planting the wrong seeds into our soil (the system) and now the tree is bringing up bad fruits that we all are sorely enjoying. An adage says, whatever you sow shall you reap.

If only my people that are called by the Name Nigerians the stand up and uproot the growing tree, but No, they would rather  remove the fruit from the tree hoping that a, good fruit will spring up from the bad tree some day, if we were on this hope I can say we would keep waiting till forever.
The future we all seek after is right before us but how do we want it to be is right behind us, do we wish to continue in this cycle (if you want to continue, as for me, I'm tired and I'll be the change), if you're like me, what we need to do is that we must first remove the 'E no concern me, if e go spoil make e spoil' attitude we all wear and then let's consciously  decide and engage ourselves to purge this system so we can cultivate good seeds and then bring alive the Nigeria we all dream of, the exact Nigeria that's the giant of Africa. Only then would the generations coming behind us find us faithful and worthy being ahead.
Selah...