Ask for the reason why the Federal Republic of Nigeria is developing phlegmatically, and each of her citizens has a share in the cause. I mean at a point in time (unintentionally sometimes), we have yelled with the “crowd”. The supposed sane person acting insanely to those he calls “crazy”; what difference (I ask) is between them? The camaraderie that moves a community forward towards their set goals (above their limitations) are replaced by share enmity. This bane is so natural that even a weaning child greedily sucks at his mother’s breast; like he would never get another chance?
Late Chief Nnamdi Azikwe, late Ahmadu Bello and late Obafemi Awolowo were icons; yet I bet the likes of Olusegun Obasanjo, Okonjo Iweala, Dimeji Bankole, Florence Seriki, Fela Durotoye, Omotola Jolade- Ekeinde and many more, possibly never imagined been where they are today while growing up. If you will agree with me that records are meant to be broken, then it means the best is yet to come from Nigeria and Nigerians!
How fear grips my heart when many young Nigerians are easily driven to amass wealth at any given opportunity. I am sure by now you know how students flaunt exotic vehicles in school, parading themselves as fraudsters. I know it sounds mean as the name Yahoo Boys now seem like a christening for the reach kid on the block. At this point you can barely differentiate between the Police and the Area boys as both sects now parade these “boys” as ATM. Drug trafficking and drug use is fast becoming an ideal among young people, with the believe that it brings fast cash. You think those are the unserious students? Even the brilliant ones are not spared as they engage in exam malpractices to earn extra cash. What difference is there between these categories of students? Yet the young ones are the hope of a better tomorrow with a today like this? Hmm! When the Doctor is ill…
The community of lecturers has the rod to developing the young people intellectually. I am not one so I might be lagging in the skills require to make a good one. However, is it by selling handouts which is against the ideal rules of the Governing Councils of most tertiary institutions or by selling ‘plagiarised’ textbooks in huge sums with relevant authorities acting numb to it? Or better still by lecturers making selected students fail intentionally with dwarfed thinking that no students can get better grades than a lecture got in his/her school days? I mean this is a literate setup! When the Doctor is ill…
Colossal sums are periodically made available to facilitate the control and prevention of killer diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS; tuberculosis and maternal mortality, etc. It is tearful, however, to know that some qualified medical practioners divert such resources for self-gain. They sell freely given resources to target beneficiaries, with medical doctors among the culprits, forgetting Hippocrates creed. Or what do we say of long-term cleaners that become nurses? When the Doctor is ill…
The lawyers know the law. They get employed by the wealth to manoeuvre the same law. It is not a matter of justice but who is better off in court. Yet this same system guides us in our endeavours? Oh! When the Doctor is ill…
Local government executives want to live like President. The governors rein in great opulence, civil service is just a job to earn wages (with no real work done, some people say); nobody seem to care about commitment and quality delivery. Even beggars dream of excess riches. Almost nobody cares about who get hurts once their desires are achieved. The road is crowded, not because of change makers but of foot in search of own greed. Hmm! When the Doctor is ill…
Servants aspire leadership without earning it. Dictators parade themselves as leaders. Everyone wants to be heard at all cost. Many ‘noise’ are overheard above the ‘voices’. With many going blind, who would lead the way? When the Doctor is ill, who shall cure him of his ailment?
Like I would say; any good deed done today, no matter how little, it will never take us backward. Let the lessons be learnt now and necessary skills acquired, so that where there is no doctor, miracles can be experienced. So I ask you, when the doctor is ill, would you be the cure?
