“Politics is too serious a business that should not be solely in the hands of politicians.”
When ruminating, reflecting or thinking deeply on why Nigeria is what it is today as bags and baggage of helplessness and hopelessness, the stinkingly rich and their offsprings readily come to mind.
The worries ooze out of the fact that the several stinkingly rich Nigerians cumulate and accumulate much of their wealth from ill gotten sources and thus create most enabling comfort zones for the pereniality of their God forsaken wealth through cycling and recycling of their offsprings to sink fellow Nigerians to a state of anomic suicides.
The rich and their children dig heaps of mounting affluence to high heavens but in terms of contribution to national advancement, germinate in abyss of nothingness, laziness and uselessness.
If there is nothing political to politicise and sip personal advantages and fiendish selfish interests in gluttony, be rest assured the offsprings of the rich shall remain dry like theq Arabian desert.
Where there is earthly ill gotten treasures they swarm in droves like bees, sapping, pollinating and polluting in drunkenness bringing sorrow and grief to citizens of a nation highly blessed, yet,wrecked by men and women who though are mere mortals yet demigods in altar of shame and pride.
Why is that hardly do we meet or see visibly the children of highly placed Nigerians in things that edify God, integrity ingrained and engraved entrepreneurial enterprises, things developmental to true nation building and relics of hope for building a virile nation Nigeria?
Why only in politics and holding political offices that their names recur like decimal and why always bringing to disrepute the image of Nigeria as perceived and acclaimed “Fantastically Corrupt Nation?”
Who will help salvage Nigeria of today and of the tomorrow of our children realising that:” Today is yesterday’s tomorrow ” while equally aligning in thoughts that :
“When Conscienceless Power rules over Powerless Conscience, it is the former that first laughs but the latter laughs last and laughs best.”
Jimmy Cliff once intoned in lyrics about what the future holds and concluded :
“Time will Tell, Time will Tell, Time will always Tell.
First published for METRO
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Taiye Olaniyi, a retired Postman of the Nigeria Postal Service, is based in Lagos.
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