The Voice Of Revolution [Writer's contest]

It is not the epileptic power supply that breaks us or the tumble-down roads,scarce social concerns or neck breaking house rents;religious intolerance,dare-devil immorality rate,plummeting traditional values,poor taxation system,abysmal educational chain,strange diet,crashing health access,repugnant crime wave,esteemed corrupt practices,destiny-dashing unemployment figures or one of the many million issue-based tragedies that befall the average Nigerian citizen daily. What breaks us is the 'CLUELESSNESS' to do anything about it.

The gap widens astronomically between the few rich folks and the multitude of poor people skeined on the society.Sadly,the gap is a fallout of the continuous policy somersaults, greed, fecklessness, parochialism, aching gormlessness and active maneuvering salted into the rank and file of our collective responsibility. Its a plagued country, bizarred by inveterate dead-brains,people whose self-driven involvement and bone-headed nature have stagnated any meaning we intend to give the country.

The funny part is that we make a hero out of ordinary men and peg modesty on people with no real-time pedigree. Can we boast of our own Nelson Mandela, Jawahraal Nehru, Julius Nyerere? Or Kwame Nkrumah?can we?in their African essentials?i know some will quickly point to the 'legendary Zik' and Obafemi Awolowo... We are not supposed to be here!!...

Our capacity lies untapped,shooting its blunt head into the laughing horizon of advanced figures who are surreptiously ever prepared to dip into our glorious,honey bowl. Years roll by and Nigerians are spoon-fed with voluminous balderdash tripled in the center by media-mediocrity. We are getting there,they say...its a developing democracy...we are trying...its not bad...we are better off than the military regime bla,bla,bla...'''Just a little sour taste from the replete pot of verbal dementia that pours out from all corner of citizenship.

The oil largesse threw us on our backs and then what? Other resources emerged into ditches that now swallow us up and then what? we over-prayed? or perhaps there are too many vacuous mind in the political corridors,too flaccid in thinking but can set a gold mine on fire??? Too weak to provide social amenities without a press-gang or too fearful to carry out responsibilities that are attached with sacks of cash?

Like oafs,these 'men' do not trade in the spotlight of value and ideological relevance like other developing nations do,orrather,clarify how things are appopriately situated along societal advantage,no,they see the world from their grobing stygian and desecrated fleshpots. In their smug culture,they fire adhominems while their bank accounts secretly burst their holdings elsewhere...God is watching. I wonder sometimes how many Nigerian leaders,'politrickcians' or whatever they are called would burn for their mindless cruelty and sense of service...i'm not a saint here.

In their opinion,the country can do it gradually,its always a gradual process of shame,a work in progress like Karl Maeir rightly wrote in his book 'this house has fallen'. A thousand years or so like America and other greats resurged to rebuild their dwindling fortunes,Nigeria would rise too. Political whistles have deafened our ears to what we should set store by. Everywhere,anytime and in any place,we continue to stand logic on its head. The population is exploding into riotous figures and decaying into a weather waste of time,fortune,potentials and purpose.

The few smart ones are forcing their exit into foxholes for respite purposes and the hapless ones can wait in vain,stretching cracked backs on their bed of stones. Let us continuu*in Patience Jonathan's voice* to stare into the moonlight of our stupendous idiocy while our political slave masters who have no intention of quitting their fading manipulations maul our beautiful dawn.

CLUELESSNESS is what we worship in our system, its a recherche, monstrous and overwhelming. Unless we must do something asap about it now,we can as well forget about it. Nigerians hold nobody to ransom when it counts the most,except their unnerving tendencies to perform jungle justice on a petty thief who stole garri and groundnuts. This simply illustrates how docile,bland,and non-calculative we can be,compared to how serious other climes take the quality of their representation. The word revolution is not domicile in the dictionary for meaning sake, it is acting to transform your tomorrow as imputed in the business context of Richard Quest.

It is what should wet our appetite,not by the way of the Arab Upspring,or a senseless bloodbath or stage-managed riots as we condole in many parts,rather,a general denouncement of our horrible kismet. Let us deprive ourselves of toothless barking as we now daily do on the social media and call to quorum eggheads that can bolster a common cause,yes freedom,not 54 years of bread crumbs. Let us swell the ranks of words and actions and mindset and 'YOU' if you care to break that manacle holding back the Nigeria of your dreams,thats if you have one.

Revolution!Revolution!!Revolution!!!

Thats the mantra.God bless Nigeria.

NAME: ROLAWE OLALEMMY