Sidon look na dog name….

Sidon look na dog name…. "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." – Barack Obama When a common inheritance is entrusted to an executor in a covenant, the party who makes or has made the covenant assumes a simple basic principle – the executor holds the inheritance in trust for the beneficiaries. Families do not expect the executor of covenants to seize the inheritance kept in the care of the executor in trust. In modern societies, democracy has come to be an expression of such covenants made by the people concerning the collective inheritance bestowed on them by almighty God. Societies in expressing this covenant entrust their inheritance in the hands of executors (a selected supposedly credible members of their populace) by way of elections believing that these executors will exercise good care of their collective heritage according to well spelt out procedures (constitution). If for any reason the executor reneges on this basic principle, the least the society expects is that the tainted executor steps down or be removed according to the covenant document (constitution) and does not benefit from this criminality. In Nigeria we had for many years looked forward to when we can entrust our collective inheritance in the hands of executors elected by us. In many occasions this desire was truncated by various groups of bandits armed and kitted by our sweat. With the collective will of our people, led by so many brave men and women, we swore that the labours of our heroes past shall never be in vain. In the course of this struggle many were killed, maimed, imprisoned, exiled and relieved of their jobs. Our best brains have been driven out of the country – a symptom of a failed state. In the current dispensation, we have now elected and by extension appointed the executors (councillors, the legislature, governors, presidents, judges, civil servants) of our national covenant every four years since 1999. The result so far indicates that most of these executors have betrayed the trust bestowed upon them. This can be seen from the fact that there has not been one facet of the Nigerian experience that has not deteriorated since 1999. There are no roads, standards hospitals and schools for the population. The executors of the covenant choose to fly across Nigeria in commercial or private jets, send their children to foreign schools and use foreign hospitals at the expense of the covenant leaving the owners poor and wretched. There is no water and the state of the energy infrastructure in Nigeria has acquired a legendary status as the worst in the entire planet despite the abundance of resources and know how required to provide electricity 24/7, 365 days a year. These executors are known to the law as tainted and have benefited and continue to benefit from their criminality. They are all over the Nigerian space striding as giants and dispensing to early grave anyone who dares challenge them on the source of their wealth. We are witnesses and can bear testimony to the various shenanigans in our polity since the return to democracy in our country. Obasanjo and his gang of thieves entrenched their stranglehold on the populace spending over $16billion on no electricity, N300biliion on no roads, N500billion on no hospitals and squandering the 13% derivative (revenue) to the oil producing states! The banks have made away with billions of people’s savings. Voodoo economics have conned the populace of their hard earned money to invest in voodoo quoted companies. Our young men have become cultists, kidnappers and robbers while our young women are all over the planet prostituting their bodies to make ends meet. The current band of thieves led by Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is trying to out do Obasanjo and his gang. They arrived on a clean slate of no foreign debt and have now gone ahead to start borrowing again even when our income tripled under their watch. All the local government chairmen, members of the legislature, governors, senior civil servants and judges have one case or the other to answer. Every cupboard you open in our public life yields a cemetery! We have perpetual injunctions not to ask questions on how the executors made away with our inheritance. The handful of trials in our courts makes a mockery of how justice should not be dispensed. Justice can now be purchased as long as you have the cash. Questions have been asked about how we managed to get ourselves into this mess and sometimes the populace who entrusted the executors with the covenant are being blamed. The truth is that for as long as we continue to let these thieving executors benefit from their criminality, we are encouraging future executors to do the same. Whatever happened to our obligation to uphold and honour the labours of our heroes past? The labours of our heroes (past) shall never be in vain! So we all proclaim in our national anthem. Have the labours and/or death of these patriotic Nigerians been vain? Never! Never in our history as a country has there been a more auspicious time to seek and enforce change than now. We are witnesses to the mockery that our country (and by extension all Nigerians) have become in the face of recent vacuum created by our absentee President. Nature, it is said, abhors vacuum. Nigeria says, vacuum is just perfect; and this is because it emboldens thieves and looters to do as they like. The gang of felons, fugitives and street criminals masquerading as leaders are only too happy to ply their trade - cart away our resources while their principal – Citizen Yar’Adua - is asleep in a hospital in Jeddah. We have hospitals – sorry dispensers - in Nigeria you know – UCH, LUTH, ABUTH, UNTH, National Hospital Abuja, Specialist Hospital Benin City, General Hospital Udi to mention but a few. While Citizen Yar’Adua flies to a real hospital in Jeddah at will for a small illness – apologies Michael Aondoakaa, Citizen Emeka can go to any of the fake drug dispensers mentioned above and get butchered by men who cannot do their job according to their training because the gang has refused them such environment where it is possible to practice what they know. It is time to reclaim our heritage from these executors turned executioners. No one else is going to do it for us. Every right thinking Nigerian, including those picking the crumbs from their master’s table must stand up to be counted. The Labour unions, students, market women, labourers, farmers, commercial vehicle drivers and every Nigerian must rise to this challenge. We have seen the effect of People Power in other societies in the last 30 years – Argentina, Philippines, Kosovo, Ukraine, Kenya, Uganda, Honduras, USA, etc. Even China with their enclosed system has yielded to the agitation of the Tiananmen Square of 1989. We can no longer afford to sit in the comfort or the lack of our homes and expect things to change. Since the robbers are armed to kill which they will do without hesitation, all we can do is civil disobedience. Nigeria cannot continue to be different. A country once respected everywhere on the planet has now become the it of every bad joke going. Nigeria needs a new face. It is time to say Never Again! Sidon look na dog name. I cannot see any dog in the house. God bless Nigeria. Emeka Enechi IT Management Consultant

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