This blog
looks so dusty *picks broom and starts sweeping*. It’s been a while since I
posted something on this blog. I am terribly sorry.
Just when I
thought nobody would miss me, I got anonymous calls from people, asking about
my where-about and why I haven’t stolen posted anything in ages. Those
guys made me realize how wrong I was and why I needed to get back to writing
and be consistent about it because people are out there watching….*Digression
alert beeps*
Some days
ago, while I hung out with a close friend of mine, I overheard a conversation
between a middle aged woman and a young sesi babe. The way this babe
ranted was what drew my attention to the “convo”.
She ranted about how ASUU had delayed her from graduating from the university……
And when I was about to stand from where I was seated to ask her out (the way she ranted attracted me to her. It was as if we were meant to be together), she said something that spoiled the whole show - “God knows better and that she’d just keep ‘praying’ ASUU calls off the strike”.
Nothing irks
me more when I hear aliens people (even my mama) utter such statements-
most especially in situations such as this.
In Nigeria,
we seem to have embraced the “leave it to God” slogan and worse passed it on to
our kids. Maybe because it is very easy to say or maybe it is the right thing
to say in certain circumstances.
But there
are several things we have left to this “god” that has made me question the
‘authenticity’ of this god. Maybe
we have a different ‘god’ we serve in Nigeria because most things appear to be
f*cked here and he seems to care less.
If this
‘god’ were to be a WAEC student, he would definitely have “F” in all his
papers, because he has failed us in so many ways.
Remember the
‘Sosoliso’ air crash, “we left it to this god” and Dana crash happened.
Remember the
girl that was severely beaten and molested for stealing a blackberry phone in
Lagos. “We left it in this god’s hands” and ALUU4 happened *wipes tear off*
There are so
many instances but the above ones are painful enough to drive home my point.
We haven’t learnt a single lesson from our mistakes. After crying for like a day or two, we move on. And leave everything to this ‘Nigerian god’.
In the
advanced countries we are quick to compare ‘naija’ to; things like these don’t
happen. And even if they do, measures are being taken to prevent them from
re-occurring. The system doesn’t embark in a 7-day dry fasting- leaving it to
‘god’ to solve.
But we
(Nigerians) are religious
people. We are ‘friggin’ religious even to the point of using a fellow human
for money rituals.
We are
addicted to praying without doing shit….
When the
govt refuses to pay teachers… we pray
When there
is no power supply….we pray
When ASUU is
on strike… we pray
When a govt
official loots funds… we pray
After all
these years of praying without doing shit, we still haven’t come to the
realization that we might be praying amiss.
I am sure
each time we pray to this “Nigerian god”, all he does is just shake his head
vigorously while he sips orange juice.
Maybe we
should pray after all but we need to accompany those prayers with work.
Maybe we
need to tap into our creative mind and create more jobs
Maybe we
need to stand up and speak against sexual abuse
Maybe we
need to stand up and speak against lynching
Maybe we
just need to do the right thing at the right time.
Maybe then
Nigeria might eventually become that country we always wanted it to be. Maybe
then the revolution we seek might eventually surface.
Let us make
little things such as obeying traffic regulations, proper disposal of wastes.
We shouldn’t
just sit there and wait for one ‘god’ to come clean up our mess. He is probably
on leave. Let us clean them ourselves.
We need to
DO more… let’s keep Doing
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Wishing you
extreme success,
Sadiq
Daniel.
PS: I was
high on Viju milk while I wrote this article… So don’t take it personal because
I could not even see what I was typing. But you may pursue me on twitter
@sadiq_daniel to see my sober tweets.
