The Time is Now

One thing we must agree upon is that we have ourselves to blame.

We have accepted mediocrity for a long time. Sentiment apart, Nigeria is not a nation to be led by the characters of Obasanjo and, worse, Jonathan.
 
One belief I have not allowed to slip away is that God has given individual or a nation opportunity to excel. That is why I always fail to blame HIM, may I continue to fail in this attempt, for my inability to attain certain wants. I always trace a history of my failure and I come to see the fault was entirely mine. This opportunity is what will be a witness against individual on the day of accountability. I am being too religious, isn't it? But, we cannot deny we had opportunity to change our destiny in the past; in recent time, the 2011 election. We blew it way on the altar of ethnicity and religious sentiments, however. As somebody says, 'The fresh air is now carbon-monoxide'. We cannot be doing same thing all over and we expect to have different results.

From lack of infrastructure, joblessness, to total insecurity including senseless killings of worshippers at Mosques and Churches and to the removal of the last thing the common man enjoys, fuel subsidy, if at all one exist, the politicians have declared a war.  Nigeria is fond of adjusting to situations, we must not allow this.

Yet, it is not too late to atone our sins.  An opportunity has provided itself. The declaration of the removal of fuel subsidy, something some experts claim does not even exist, is a declaration of war on the masses. The enlighten ones should avail this opportunity to take over our country from a gang of rapacious, corrupt politicians.

To this point, first thing first, we must decide how much oil should be sold. Comparing across oil-producing countries, Nigerians still pay higher at a price of 65/litre. It is a common talk in Saudi Arabia that oil is cheaper than water. We must know why our refineries are not working.

We should not allow anybody to negotiate on behalf of the Nigerian masses except ourselves, because past experience was a good teacher.
We must capitalize on this opportunity to bring total change to our country. Not only on fuel subsidy, but everything, because everything is wrong in Nigeria.

A government who identifies a criminal cabal but turns around to punish its victims is weak and does not deserve to exist.
The Arab world that is protesting and toppling dictators is living better life than us. In fact, we are pole apart in terms of quality of life.

I believe God has given us the opportunity to take our destiny into our own hands. The time is now.