The Lions In The Jungle

AMBASSADOR EZEWELE CYRIL

A jungle is an area of thick tropical forest and jumbled vegetation or a puzzling state of affairs. It is a place of disorderliness that is out of control concerning the activities of the individual living creatures that reside in the environment. It has no generally accepted rule for survival; no criminal offences; no umpire body that regulates the Dos and Don’ts in the jungle world and above all, no atom of justice for the innocent. 

It is either you belong to the lion’s cat world or you’re a gazelle. It is all about the survival of the fittest at the detriment of the weaker ones whose chances are tinier. No one prays for the survival of his or her preys! Therefore, there will never be an iota of mercy in lion’s heart as far as the gazelle’s blood is concerned. How can the gazelle be innocent where the judges are lions? In the unwritten constitution of lions, the law permits the killing of gazelle for food. And no one will bring you to book for killing and eating a constitutionally accepted gazelle for food. Rather, they will find a way to have a portion of the gazelle’s flesh. And it will interest you to know that this has long become the situation room in most Africa nations.

The lawless and the untouchable lions are the people in government while the gazelles are the ordinary citizens. The sole difference between the gazelles in the jungle and the ordinary citizens in most Africa nations is that the gazelle jumps to its feet for a dear life saving race at the sight of a lion, while the ordinary citizens in docility and in total submission as a result of ignorance on the platform of being among the bandwagon, tribalism, same religious faith, nepotism, or in most cases for a morsel of bread embrace, celebrate and abate monstrous politicians to carry out their gruesome plans against the public. The politicians with their diamond coated utterances will cajole and pamper the public to dance to the rhythm of their horror beats in the same way a domestic animal is raised and nurtured for consumption.

There are many things we need to put into consideration when dealing with our politicians. Among these things, we need to consider their faith in what they are providing for us to have faith in. They will tell us to have faith in the health sector they have lost faith in; a health sector that cannot take care of them whenever they are visited with little ailment. Most Africa presidents cannot be treated in the same health system they provide for their nations. They will fly abroad whenever they are struck down with ailment. Something must be wrong with our hospitals, doctors and medical researchers for our leaders not to confide in them.

They will tell us to have faith in their education system. A system they have long lost faith in; they are sending their children abroad for a better education to prove to you that contrary to what they are telling you, the educational system in their countries had been brainwashed, indoctrinated, politicized and outdated, where most of their professors that ought to lead and teach the truth are the ones rigging elections for the government of the day and in some cases hoping for an extraterrestrial force for a change of situation.

Our educational system is such that cannot produce engineers that the government will trust enough to handle major construction projects such as the building of railways, major roads, steel mill plants, airplanes, ships and in some cases industrial tooth pick production equipment. Virtually everywhere you go in Africa today, Chinese are the one handling all these enlisted projects. Where is the education if we are not fit to fix things for ourselves? They will also tell you to have faith in their electoral process. A process that allows the buying of votes and the rigging of election results, where voters decide nothing and counters (the electoral body) decide everything. And in most cases, hoodlums overshadow the public and destroy polling booths in order to reduce the numbers of votes in favor of their opponents.

In as much as I support the present government in Nigeria, the general election of 23rd February, 2019, was a show of shame. Some of the people that respected and honoured their constitution to vote for a candidate of their choice were killed while many were injured by political hoodlums and in some cases the hoodlums were abated by government security agents. In a similar way as the activities in the lower animal jungle world, those who died on that Election Day trying to honour the call of democracy will never get justice.

On the general election day, the two major political parties in Nigeria mercilessly engaged themselves in a fierce rigging war and at the end of the day, the party with more rigging machinery emerged the winner. Everybody calling on international observers! That means, without international observers we cannot be fair to ourselves. In the eyes of western countries, we remain toddlers in our adulthood that need to be told on how to be real and fair to ourselves. What a shame! And they will tell us to have faith in their justice system when they are fully aware that the justice belongs to the highest bidder or to the closest person to the government in power; a justice system that is capable of making the guilty become the innocent and the innocent become the guilty whenever Mr. CASH says so; a justice system that survives on corruption and on a biased submission to the government that be (THE LORD OF THE SKY).

They will tell us to have faith in their planning system when they do not have plans to build and unite their nations but are full of plans to remain in power for more public funds embezzlement. It has become appallingly obvious that the more civilization they get in this part of the world, the more foolish they become. Fighting sleeplessly and mercilessly to amass and keep amassing the wealth they will never need. Buying exotic cars and building executive houses that will end up causing them sleepless nights as their hearts keep beating at every sound of a strange noise. And the worst of all, they will tell us to have faith in their ability and sincerity to manage our public funds. “THE GOAT AND THE YAM” They have lost a sense of intrinsic value, based on the knowledge of the significance of one’s positive contribution to humanity.

NOTE: from whichever angle you look at circle it remains a circle for CORRUPTION IS AN ACT OF ILLITERACY.

Ambassador Ezewele Cyril is the author of the book “The Enemy Called Corruption” and writes from Lagos.