Monday, August 31, 2015

USA Africa Dialogue Series - What have you changed your mind about?


In simple hypothetical English, I'm writing this after struggling through Kenney Emetulu's long-winded "CORRUPTION: A CHALLENGE TO NIGERIANS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS" in which he unwinds – winds back the clock to unfold some very familiar even if selective, political history, (history of corruption)  

What have you changed your mind about? Hopefully, not about the evils of pernicious corruption and the justice that awaits some of the worst miscreants?

It's the kind of question that generates disparate answers from diverse party partisans since Muhammadu Buhari's first three months in office.

From day one, some of the pessimists – and the bitter losers among them have been in no mood to entertain any great expectations about the immediate future of Nigeria during the four years of Muhammad Buhari's presidency. They do not like change and many of them are especially in no mood to contemplate the beautiful justice that is pending and that is soon to catch up with the lootocrats.

It is the higher ideals of their critiques that immediately impinges on the lenses and senses through which the United States of Nigeria as a futuristic, we-have-a-dream Nation may be viewed - in line with the new orthodoxies of the new Nigeria , the impatient, crazy rants and highfalutin dogmas currently pervading our spheres of general scepticism, the will to inertia and armchair comforts, the shrugging of shoulders in despondency, despair and resignation, periodically moaning like Fazzula Ikheloa and Benjamin,  what else to expect?

Periodically, like in the menstrual cycle – a natural event (as Donald Trump poetically put it, "Blood everywhere") and sometimes in immediate proximity to and finely in tune, Toyin Adepoju's cycles of the dog baying at Buhari and the moon…

Bloodshot sun

Sun Ra

Blood in my eye

Blood in my eyes

George Jackson

The cycle's complete.

I ask the wry critics who cry:

What more do you expect from the man of the moment (all your eyes are upon him) what more do you expect from the history-making Muhammadu Buhari when he takes on the ever expanding Boko Haram and some of the villains of the former establishment and  now defunct political bums? As for the idolaters and those who worship Goodluck Jonathan and his apostles, good luck to them. What else to expect?

What else than that when Brother Buhari is about to start delivering some long delayed justice, the watery-eyed and tearful do not repent and say " At Last!  -and he is true to his word!"

"So we bring it to a stop then we take it from the top"

True:" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

So, in order to be systematic where else would you like the beautiful selective justice to begin?

1914?

If there can be an all-out war against Boko Haram what should deter an all-out war on corruption, once and for all?

Only asking,

Cornelius,

We Sweden

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