POLITICIANS! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE THE CHAIN IS BROKEN

I do not know much about dog breeding, but this is what I observed. When a puppy is brought home it is either chained or latched, amidst whining and protest, the milk or food is provided, with a little stroking of ear and neck. The puppy begins to be weary of whining and protest until its protest becomes so weak to be called an unnoticed sigh. The dog then resigns to fate and accepts its new reality with all that comes with it. By now a name has been given and a specific space carved out for its existence. Still being fed of a particular food and occasionally fondly stroke to the ear or neck, the chain is removed or un-caged but by now the half grown puppy has forgotten its history through this formative process. A new identity and limitation is now in progress, the dog has been domesticated and customized to a personal item. This is the story of Nigeria and Nigerians. As the international community tries to domesticate us Nigerians through the gruesome coups and civil war, purchased the Nigerian spirit and our politicians perfected their arts by customizing us to meet their appetite through systematic mediocrity. Hence, Nigerians were reduced to a country with the highest wishes for greatness and a flamboyant list of excuses for each of our many failures. Like the dog we have been given a new reality of distrust, religious intolerance, corruption, fear, anger, actionlessness and ethnic suspicion, with their professional tokenism and years of enthroning mediocrity, we have so accepted this customized reality that we now share it from ‘face book’ to ‘mind book’. So much that we excuse every of our short coming, with the philosophy of ‘at least’; “at least, Jang built Garda biu bridge”; “at least Jonathan passed the budget on time”, “at leasting everything that should not have been”. The very few who are courting us, outside the borders of our dear country, courts us for all the best things they can get from us; U.S.A, China, Germany ...name them. But the difference between man and beast is the ability to recreate our reality. This is why every Nigerian should seek a personal deliverance, a self motivated rescue mission to rise above this ‘domestication’ and ‘customization’. We must as painful as it may seem step above the boundaries drawn by these dream-robbers, and attain our dreams and aspirations. In fact, it is time to redefine the rules, for we have been hunted for a very long time. It is time that the hunted becomes the hunter. It is our own time to domesticate the beast in our public officers, to dog-cage them and demand absolute loyalty from them. This will not make sense to you if your thoughts are in chain, this may not make sense to you if you’ve lost the will to reach out and touch the sky, and this really will not make sense to you if you’ve decided to fail your future. This will only make sense to you if you have the common sense to realize that we are too blessed to be like this. Victor Prince Dickson Jos,2013.