The Universal Sufferer

It has become a shameful and painful norm for Nigerians to be subjected to maltreatment home and abroad, making Nigerians to wobble in agony under the mental torture of no place to call home. 

The current flood of insecurity bedeviling the minds, threatening and hacking the lives of Nigerians home and abroad was birthed by the long celebrated corrupt governance settings that benefitted microscopic individuals at the detriment of the whole nation and her future. 

Corruption in Nigeria started as seeds of embezzlement and electoral malpractices. As it receives the waters of negligence to form its imbibition on the fertile soil of nepotism and tribalism, it activated the enzymes of self centeredness and gained momentum for growth. The seeds developed root of tribalism and religious bigotry to access the waters of negligence underground. The seeds grew shoots of open bribery to grow towards the sun and make it an open show of acceptable shame.

The shoots beget leaves of hardship, injustice and human rights violations and began photomorphogenesis, which developed adolescent plants of robbery and hidden kidnapping plus other petty crimes as it enjoys photosynthesis through the sun of laissez faire. And later, the baby plants grew into adult plants of criminal celebrities receiving chieftaincy titles and occupying high and reverend positions in the society, which later provoked some of the mentally derailed who are victims of bad governance to bring forth open dare-devil kidnapping, human organ harvesting enterprises, baby factories, tribal terror buttressed by top players in government, ‘ONE CHANCE’ and foreign sponsored terrorism.

The gory situation allows men, children and women to be butchered alive under the pretext of herders and farmers clashes while accusing finger of blames showered on tribal and religious lifeless statues as we live to suspect and work against each other’s interest which remains the cardinal goal of Neocolonialism and that of our local political Hushpuppies.

Our task masters (local and foreign) have succeeded in tearing us apart through the mechanism of divide and rule by using some ignorant among us to work against us. 

PEACE IS ALL WE NEED WHILE NATIONAL RECONCILIATION IS ALL IT WILL TAKE. Irrespective of our language differences, we are brothers coming from same source but arrived at different periods.

The unconstitutional legalization of illegality through this present administration, intertwined with the gory and unholy situations making the round gave rise to the abysmal and disgusting national identity that made the Nigerian blood and sentiments valueless both home and abroad. 

PLEASE  NOTE THIS: Our stinking thinking gave birth to our present stinking living, which had eventually awarded us the painful position of ‘THE UNIVERSAL SUFFERER’.

– Ambassador Ezewele Cyril Abionanojie, the author of the book ‘The Enemy Called Corruption’ and the Best Columnist Of The Year, 2020.