It is time to see Nigeria for what it is – a big house. How many of you would countenance someone coming into your living room to urinate and defecate? How many of you would allow yourselves to be bribed with a light bulb from a house when the whole house belongs to you? Then why would you allow someone to buy your vote? Why would you allow someone to exploit you? Don’t you know the whole of Nigeria is your house? Can’t you see that? It’s time you all started to hold this house in high esteem because for all I’ve said so far, I’m less concerned about past privations I’ve faced. I’m less concerned about the ingratitude my mother and other members of my family have experienced. What really concerns me is what it says about this house called Nigeria. If people as accomplished as my mother can face such difficulties and if a son from such a family can face such struggles, what hope is there for the humble subsistence farmer and how many fledgling Einsteins, Flemings, Goethes have we deprived of faith and trust before their geniuses could take root? How many more Koya-Oyagbolas are we stifling and trying to snuff out with our indifference even now as their geniuses struggle to take root? Unless you wish to spend your life in a desert it’s time for every single Nigerian to stand up and say, there will be no more incivility, no more neglect, no more anguish in this house. It’s time Nigerians stood up to those of little faith who attempt to urinate and defecate in this house’s living room...
FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE SEE: http://koyaoyagbola.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/this-house/
Monday, January 25, 2010
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