Epistle to the phoenix

Dear Phoenix, the myth of your existence in the Arabian wilderness is yet to be abated within my mental ambience. You are doomed to set yourself ablaze in a funeral pyre and rejuvenate from your ashes and remains in the viridity of your youth and exist through another cycle of life. Like a robber doomed to be hanged by the hang man at the verdict of the jury, your verdict has been from Inception.

Dear Phoenix, your representation of immortality and rebirth gives me a sense of hope and strong optimism about a place that has suffered great calamity and apparent annihilation in all works of life, some wounds cut so deep that we don’t know where the pains are coming from, same can be said of that place, the wounds there are so great that where to address and treat has been covered by the veil of obscurity, well that is what our kinsmen made it to look like.

Dear Phoenix, let me tell you about that place; he attained independence in 1960 after the western imperialist relinquished power. From one military coup to the other, he struggled to have an elected leadership by way of political liberalization (Democracy), since then, militants, religious and ethnic groups pursue their demands through violence and terrorism. Countless number of people have died over the past Five decades in communal attack and sporadic uprising

Dear Phoenix, the present political realities has stimulated perpetual separatist aspirations, strives to boost the economy has failed out of corruption and mismanagement. Foreign investment is epileptic because of the looming security challenge, shaky infrastructure and crippled power supply.

Dear Phoenix, when you cry, all we hear is a beautiful and sweet sounding melody greater than that of a Nightingale, but in this place, all we hear is the noise and echoes of calamity, songs of poverty accompanied by a turbulent music of anguish and sorrow, days ago, it was ALUU4, Mubi, Maidiguri Mayhem, flood et al,

Dear Phoenix, the place is called NIGERIA, and I have come to liken NIGERIA to you today, NIGERIA shall rise again from his ruins to form a new cradle, NIGERIA is in its funeral pyre now, he shall soon reborn from the old world, but the rebirth depends on his people, not the people taking illegal advantage of the country to get rich but those that stand to watch and do nothing about it, we stand sturdy against all odds. Be prepared for a new NIGERIA order
God bless the Phoenix
God bless Nigeria
God bless Africa at large.

Happy Democracy Day, or is it “PDP’s Birthday?”…..musing by Abusgar

et us join hands and pray for our dear country Nigeria and our democracy. Today marks the 13th year of uninterrupted democratic rule in Nigeria since the Military, under the Leadership of Gen. AbdulSalam Abubakar handed over to Olusegun Obasanjo of the Peoples Democratic Party on 29th, May 1999. Its a good thing to know we’ve had series of elections since 1999, with different candidate promising an utopian society. The sad news however, or rather, the disheartening thing is, the utopian promises are yet to be manifested. Should we say we have been voting the wrong candidates or what? Thanks to PDP.

Many articles will dot pages of different newspapers today. The e-media won’t be left out at appraising Nigeria’s Democracy since 1999, but its obvious only a few benefits would be credited to the best ruling system in the world as practised in Nigeria;-Democracy. The question that probes my mind therefore is, when will Nigeria be freed from the shackles of her backwardness? Same story is what we hear everyday. While the followers throw all the weights of blame on the leaders, i must confess, we, the followers, are not free of the blame. Whatever meaning you infer to my submission is arguably correct.

The current state of the country is not appealing in any real sense. In the face of copious natural resources, our endowments seem to be a blessing in disguise. Or, what should we call the benefits we gain from the heavily drilled oil? Come to think of it, what if the oil eventually drys up someday? Which i pray it will not. But if that’s the solution to our problem, i guess we now know what our prayer points should be…

My brain is really not permitting me to scribble much. I only wish to call on my fellow compatriots to pray for Nigeria, at least, she deserves it. So that Section 14 (2b) of the 1999 Constitution which states “The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government” shall be adequately invoked. After all, nothing is impossible with prayer. Also, don’t forget to assist shoeless Nigerians with a pair of shoes, so we won’t have shoeless leaders tomorrow.

On a comic conclusion, lemme share with you a broadcast i received just now on my blackberry device of Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon; “A celebration of democracy or a deprecable apotheosis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascading into a mobocracy with all the ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy? With our “democracy” enveloped in a paraplegic crinkum crankum, we must all rise up to bring to focal hiceps and biceps, Nigerias “Pluto-mobo-kakistocracy”…certainly

not democracy.”

I’m yet to decipher the meaning of his gigantic grammars, but i guess we’re saying the same thing.

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