I Want A Good Country
Is this too much to ask for?
I just want my country to be good, a good place, a place with good people?
Where money and wealth ceases to be a curse and stain, but rather a blessing and thing of joy.
A competitive country, a country I am proud of, a country that makes the black race proud again.
A place where when there is an accident, people stop to help and not to steal.
A place where people don’t have to be told not to drive drunk, half asleep or over speed.
A country where the fanciest car, or biggest house is not what is valued, but rather morality, compassion and industrialism.
Sweet with the atmosphere I only now enjoy in the village. Think of it, only in the village does some good remain.
A country where mobs don’t beat and kill transgressors, because they respect, fear and trust the law.
Where crime is criminal and corruption is a crime.
A place where politics is for leadership and not a means to satisfy ultimate greed.
Where leaders focus on the job at hand and not the desperate contest to win the next round.
I don’t really care whether it is PDP, APC, CPC, NCP, SNP or even the Military. Just give me a good country, seriously because I am frustrated, I am angry.
No, I am not tired, I won’t be tired till Boko or MEND kill me, till I die, that is, but I am frustrated. I am fed-up of the rot, of the political talk, the hopeless contest. The party bickering, the back and forth. The threats and counter threats. I am neither entertained by it, nor distracted from the real issues by the deadly, greedy, ridiculous game.
I can’t believe people desire and occupy positions where they know they are not only useless, but actually wicked and actively murderous.
Do they not know they will certainly die? We all will die, soon, so soon if we only knew.
Don’t they see all those who have died? Why can’t they step aside and help facilitate those with the right skill-sets and consciences to take the steering wheel? To run Nigeria like a company and not like a colony.
Do they not know that I, you, has the same right and capacity, and can decide to lead or to be clogs in the wheel? Do they think they occupy positions with their last names engraved?
It’s service. The leadership positions are positions of service. Positions of much given and much to be asked by God.
No one is a fool.
We are not simply allowing you to rule us and cheat us.
We are not complacent and joyous at your theft.
Nor are we cowardly to decide to get you out of there.
We are just peace-loving people and we just pity you, because when you die, you will be alone in that cold grave and you will be asked what you did with that position and why you stole from us.
We pity you actually. Not compassion, what we feel is pity.
You didn’t get away with stealing from my mom, from the old lady you just drove passed. You owe her. You will pay her. You will pay her.
But because of the people who die, those who have died, those who died today in bad hospitals, on bad roads, by bombs, due to hunger, because of them we react and act. We ask you, can we get a good country now?
We demand of you, can we get a good country?
Is it not time yet to make Nigeria a good country?
Have you not done enough stealing and cheating and not yet done enough building and fixing?
Can I get my good country now?
Can I finally cover the graves of all the dead… rest in peace?
This time, we are not giving you a chance to ruminate over it, we will do something, we are doing something, we are improving ourselves and we will improve you or get rid of you. Every Nigerian Do Something [ENDS]. It’s time for a good country. We will get our good country.
Dr. Peregrino Brimah
http://ENDS.ng
