THE ABANDONED CHILD

It has become a culture in most Africa nations that leaders are accorded the right to do whatever they so please with public funds. This syndrome of who sits in position of authority owns the public funds therein has kept many away from seeking accountability and transparency from public office holders.

This is the chief reason leaders recklessly mismanage and embezzle public funds without fear of any, or substantial penalty as the public embraced a myopic ideology of who rules owns it all. This obnoxious and abysmal belief birthed a wildly adopted selfish individualistic concerns of everyone to his tent, O Israel. And it makes survival turn around the privileged, the opportune and the connected. The orphans and the children of the poor became victims to the unholy scenario as they suffer to make ends meet and lack the means to secure better education, good hand work or better trade skills in a politically corrupt society of joblessness, where bad leaders ruin it all.

The children of the poor, we failed to train yesterday, are the bandits of today that hold sway over our peaceful coexistence as a nation, for he who is deprived of the benefits of societal care inherently has lesser value for societal peace and conventional laws than those who do. The hardship experienced by them, caused by leadership failure will negatively affect their moral thoughts that could be prone to adopting elements of braggadocio if mixed with brain washing ideological radicalization.

Every new born baby’s mind is void of character content and is opened to storing available information and adapting to happenstances which form the colour of his belief system and linger on to shape the character of the innocent child. 

The hapless, helpless and hopeless situation in a society, fueled by leadership air of neglect, is the catalyst for banditry and terrorism. What leaders do is what the people will emulate. As the leaders are stealing up there, the people will search out means to be stealing down here. This is the cardinal reason corruption remains an act of illiteracy for it is the stealing of the peace, the security, the stability and the long term wealth of your tomorrow for the benefit of the short term ignorantly tagged gains of today. It is the demolition of your future treasures for the temporary pleasures of today. It is the game of fools played in the field of greed applauded by ignorant spectators.

Acknowledge it or not, the fact remains unyielding and shatterproof that the root of Nigeria insecurity situation of today is traceable to the leadership failures and the celebrated corrupt practices of yesterday. Quantitatively, we naturally reap more than what we sow. Every evil seed sowed begets copious evil fruits that contain more evil seeds in them. The corrupt practices we neglect to uproot from the soil of our political leadership settings have generated a jumbled and a gargantuan insecurity challenges, wobbling at the periphery of breaking the most populous black nation into smaller components.The children of the poor we left in pains yesterday have been brain washed and given dangerous weapons to make us their games today. 

The abandoned child of yesterday could be victimized by evil wheelers and become a monster that smashes other people’s precious lives today. There is no other way to the truth! We are reaping the produce of our bad leadership settings.

– Ambassador Ezewele Cyril Abionanojie.The author of the book ‘The Enemy Called Corruption ‘ and an Anti Crime/Peace Ambassador