Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote - The Enemies of Nigeria?

"If this(Nigerian) current democratic dispensation is truncated, we know those to hold responsible!" - Chidi Opara

I share your frustration, my illustrious poet, but who are these people or culprits you have in mind and what does it matter?

I assume that we have always known them, right from the abortion of the First Republic in 1966, through the Biafran war and decades of military autocracy, to the present macabre dance (e.g. the party switch and re-alignemts) going on among our politicians and their acolytes all over the country. Some of these culprits have died without paying any real "price" for their wickedness and ruinous ways. Their children and successors are still enjoying their loots and their rape of our nation, while millions continue to suffer and die as an aftermath of their depravity and maladministration.

We are a nation of captured and emasculated people, held in perennial servitude by a coterie or gang of self-serving and good for nothing rogue elite. Some brave souls continue to fight courageously for a better tomorrow, some of who had paid the highest sacrifice. I salute them and hold them in high esteem. They are, however, outnumbered and out-gunned. What is most disheartening is that many of us are enablers for failing to realize that the power to change the destiny of our nation, and to rid it of the rogues plaguing it, is with us, thus inadvertently abetting the spoilers and looters as they continue to successfully lord it over us by deceit, deception, and manipulations. Africa is not cursed; our troubles are largely self-inflicted.

When are we going to wake up as a people and as a nation of rational and responsible peoples and hold these minions of mindless and thieving villainous vagabonds accountable by putting them in their place and returning the power to where it belongs, the people? When is the day of reckoning and how long must we wait?

In the meantime, the macabre dance continues….

Funso Afolayan

"Je nwi temi. O le pa enu mi mo" (Let me Have My Say. I refuse to be silenced.)  - Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

On Jul 30, 2018, at 4:47 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

If this(Nigerian) current democratic dispensation is truncated, we know those to hold responsible!

CAO.

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