The Book Of Life

Posted on April 15, 2020

EZEWELE ABIONANOJIE CYRIL

The greatest skill in life is perfect planning. Consistent failure is
a product of lack of adequate planning. There must be a system that
works in place for things to work accordingly in our favour. Being
tortured by our present posture in life is a proof that we have not
featured a workable structure for there is always a wisdom solution to every life situation. There is no way the load on our heads can be
straight when our legs are bent. It is doing the right thing that gets
things done rightly.

Life is a race for the future. You cannot be going nowhere and expect
to get to somewhere meaningful in life. It is what you put into life
that determines what life will present back to you. It works same way
as the computer – garbage in garbage out. As far as we are racing for
a prize on the track lane of activities, there must be a place for
book recording in order for us to master the past for the benefits of
both the present and the future. “A People without the knowledge of
their history, origin and culture are like a tree without roots” says
Marcus Garvey. On the other hand, a government without the knowledge of the contents of its citizens’ character individually is like an edifice with no foundation. Our individual social activities need to
be recorded for the pursuance of our collective ends, which will
facilitate a clear access into our individual past records.

There should be a government controlled centralized identity database
management system, where our individual person’s credentials will be
stored and managed, which I labeled as ‘The Book of Life’. Government’s centralized identity database management system, if effectively managed, can help us build, manage and protect our society in an industrial scale as everyone will be having records of their
individual social behaviors. It will help our security settings in
their investigations as everyone will be traceable to an address
through a periodically renewed mandatory house contract that will be
managed by a special agency in collaboration with our security body.
It will also save us the stress and the funds used in conducting
population census as the database program will be edited and balanced
according to the mortality and birth rate prevalence. Also, it will
inject a very high level of transparency in our political electoral
practices as under aged and ghost voters will be eliminated. It will
maximize our revenues as tax defaulters and many business transactions
would be made visible through our database book keeping. It will
eliminate ghost workers from public offices. It will help us to easily
differentiate our citizens from immigrants and monitor their
activities within the parameter space of our nations. And the ongoing
issue of government giving out multiple billions of Naira as food aids
to the public while a community get 5kg of rice, 3kg of beans and
200 Naira loaf of bread to survive for 14days could be put to check and
managed via the centralized identity database system. The benefits of
government centralized identity database program can never be over
emphasized for it is a win-win affair. It is the starting point to
becoming an organized nation. It is imperative we embrace a
centralized database program if we must perform in an organized form,
which in turn, will beget an organized society, for It is only where
remains dark corruption flourishes.
It will interest you to know that African leaders travel the most
among other leaders in the world. Yet, they cannot copy paste in their
lands the good side of the happenings they see around the world. What
makes other nations developed does not come to their minds as
voluptuaries? They travel for pleasures, medical treatments and
schooling without thinking of establishing such advance settings in
their soil. The money with which they travel for pleasures and medical
treatments in a year will build world class hospitals in every of
their Local Government Area; from the President down to the
councilors. And they are always searching for where to borrow money
and where to hide the ones they have stolen, presenting themselves as
sub human before the international community.

There is a dire need for us to decolonize our minds and accept the responsibility of feeding, clothing, treating, building, educating and protecting ourselves. We have refused to identify with our responsibilities which have made us a liability to the world. That is why the world sees Africa as a hunting ground and a testing ground for biological discovery. Our leaders are so much concerned with spirituality instead of intellectuality. We waste public funds on pilgrimages that have nothing positive to contribute to our society and leave our education settings in a state of comatose; seeking for help from something that only exist in the imagination instead of using their heads for wisdom solutions. Since you cannot use your brain to produce, you shall remain part of the world’s testing kits. If you refuse to do what you could do for yourself and your society, you will end up becoming a servant to those who do them. African solution for Africa’s problem for it is better to die trying than to remain toddlers in the boxing ring of able nations.
If our doctors cannot handle our medical situations here, something is
wrong with our leadership and education system. If our local engineers
cannot handle the construction of our high rise edifices, bridges,
under water ways, rail tracks among others, there is definitely a
missing link in our learning sector. And if our scientists cannot
research for scientific solutions in solving our technological needs,
certainly our thoughts need to be dry-cleaned. We must infuriate
ourselves with the truth. We are always waiting to consume things made
outside Africa and continue to produce what we do not consume.
Presently, African leaders are waiting to get Covid -19 vaccines from
outside Africa soil without thinking towards empowering African
medical researchers to swing into action and produce the vaccine that
will best fit our people and render Coronavirus impotent throughout
the land of Africa. And our Ministers of Health are busy reading the
mortality and the mobility of the virus, how many have died and how
many have contracted the virus without thinking towards establishing a
solution that will keep Coronavirus under check. Our lockdown
taskforces are killing the people in high numbers than the virus they
ought to protect the people from. Everything is upside down. No
empathy! No justice! Oppression, suppression extortion, molestation,
deprivation and depression everywhere. I will submit to you by
identifying with the view of Professor Lumumba of Kenya that African
politicians are perhaps indeed the Africans greatest curse. The elites
that ought to light up their candles for others to see and discover
the little oil needed for their individual lamps are indeed the ones
championing the acts of corruption that had kept Africa in the dusty
region of anthropological library.
According to Karl Max, “The country that is more developed
industrially only shows to the less developed the image of its own
future”.
There are certain measures with which you copy from those who have
seen ahead of you for quick results. Copy the good ones, eschew the
bad ones and keep researching for better ways. We must begin by establishing a government controlled centralized database management system if we truly yearn for a long lasting development, for it is the life gate to a transparent and good accountability setting that facilitates the achievement of a modern investigating machinery void of brutality. Any of an individual person’s violation of the law will be chronicled in his or her individual page which will serve as a platform to determine what he or she could do and have done against the system which will be collated
to form the basis of his or her acceptability in handling public affairs, bank credits etc. This book of life will enable us to get our lives on track and be freed from avoidable negative societal torments.