It's Revolution Time
An Igbo adage cautions the chicken to carefully observe how the patridge is being skewered because it will definitely get to its turn one day.
When it started in Tunisia
But for those that think it will never get to them ... hmmm! I laugh. Let's just wait and see. There is no fixed date. For Ben Ali it was 22 years; Mubarak 31; Ghaddafi 42. Do not be deceived, it may come down to 2, 3, 4 and even fewer or more years of oppressing your people through corruption. It will get to you. Yes, you that thinks you are insulated. You may necessarily not be a president. You could be a boss that thinks you need money more than the hapless workers that slave to enrich you. So you take yours and theirs, believing that nothing can reach you.
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Demonstrators in Egypt Courtesy: Al Jazeera |
I laugh again. You are a Ben Ali that must be made away with. A Mubarak that should be quarantined. A Ghaddafi that is claiming matyrdom because he has no place to run to. But surely, your own turn shall come.
Al Jazeera, CNN or BBC may not carry it. But you will know it! Yes, you will! And then you will feel what other despotic forebears of yours felt when their time came.
Away with all corrupt and sanctimonious tyrants! Away!
Comments
On the home front, sir,i think we are Post-Modernist; our party system for one is full of pastiches, blurred manifestos,juxtapositions and so many "intercontinetalities". For instance, what do you think is the difference between PDP and ACN, or any other party?
I think we need to rethink. we must work towards one thing- Unity of Purpose and an Alternative Culture. what is your take on this, for a start.
I also believe that if right now that unity of purpose is not emergent, after all these years of gloom and melancholy, something is wrong somewhere. The run has already dragged for too long that the remedy should have come in the shortest run.
Or may be we have become used to these inconsistencies that is has become part of us, perhaps the effect of the environment, like the Woliwo people becoming used to the acridity and rot around them.
Finally, I also think that, as a people, we have more dividing lines than uniting lines. Now look at the never-ending Jos crisis for instance. These are a people within the same geographical area that are supposed to be united for good but because of one trivial sentiment or the other kill each other. It is this that I frown at. This is because as long as we keep being sentimental by thinking individually rather than collectively or regionally rather than nationally or religiously rather than culturally the Promised Land will forever remain Utopian.
Some of the best solutions to these problems lie also with the political class, I mean people who can talk and be listened to. We can’t wish them away even if they are part and parcel of our problems. Secondly, I am not comfortable with the way so many political parties are allowed at the national level. These only perpetrate further the divides in a heterogeneous society like ours. America with its old democracy has just two political parties at the national or federal level. Having just two parties at the national level will streamline these divides. Or where do we start, the virtual president?