Dear people peace be unto us as we try to find a common ground on how to deal with this pressing issue. It shows our passion for our country regardless of how we perceive the opinion of the other. Muttallab committing an act so condemning, was just a trigger point in what was already "a big country in a big problem ", that Nigeria is in a volatile or eruptive state and that something was bound to happen sooner or later was no news to many, especially if you have been following the trend of things lately. Please hear me out, please put sentiments aside, please listen, because that is what we hardly do as Nigerians.
For so long, Nigeria did not take a stand on anything. What is our stand on education, health, housing, poverty, and the other basic infrastructures, citizens of any country need to survive.
What is the Nigerian culture, or stand on crime, safe guarding of lives and properties, on genocide, on tribalism. What is our stand or policies as the case maybe on foreign investors/multilateral allied relationships. What is our stand on corruption, what is our stand on electoral processes, what is our stand on human rights, What is our stand on money laundering, What is our stand on transparency, what is our stand on law and order, what is our stand on the rule of law, the judiciary etc. Our constitution does not carry much weight, these are our real problems.
Nigeria has never been easy to decipher, everyone including nigerians, have been left to come up with their individual meaning of what we are about, what is right and what is wrong.
The international community have been dumping on us for so long because we permitted it,created it with them, we condoned it, that is why Nigeria was or is still a dumping ground for expired goods of all sorts, putting many lives to potential danger.
In the name of oil refinery, they dominated our oil sector and with oil also comes wealth,but there are n no regulation s in place nor followed to tackle spillages, damaged and polluted lands, rivers, and loss of community of our people in the Niger Delta.
What about our aviation sector, our private sector, who have we given the licenses, who are the big players, who dominates it, who calls the shot? That is why only international airlines ripping us off through their unregulated ticket pricing of African routes are in our airspaces, that is why our nations stolen monies are in Swiss banks.
Yes we may say “but the west are also condoning it,” they the crusader of standards” but hello, it takes two, someone is violating us, our rights and we say keep abusing us,it does not matter , we did not take a stand for too long a time, we know they are used us,are using us,fooled us, fooling us and we choose to play stupid because of why? We are corruptible, we have no national working strategy,either short term or long term in place,but individualistic goals, and perputated greed.
This current issue did not start on Dec 25th 2009 when the whole world woke up to the news of another terrorist attempt, and the perpetuator happened to be a nigerian, no, it started as far back as post colonial era.
The west have been looking for a way to excommunicate Nigeria, they have been wanting to isolate us, because of our systems and how we treat our own people,how it is getting more ridiculous and turning into a circus of some sort. I suspect they turned a blind eye and deaf ears to the cries of Senior Muttallab, so that this pathetic lost nigerian will creat the needed platform for their smooth operation as usual (America is not as nonchalant, careless as they want us to believe in this case, my guess is this was a bait) and guess what? he did! And with the whole world having a common enemy in terrorism and Al-Qaeda, they will agree with America that we deserve to be blacklisted. Not even other commonwealth nations will save us from this one.
We have been blacklisted and so what? We have always been on a list or the other, how about TRANSPERENCY International’s ranking of Nigeria on their most corrupt nations list?
Read carefully though,the other things being said, written about the on- going issues in Nigeria, they have strongly condemned the absence of our president, the non abiding and lack of respect for our constitution, that power be handed over to the vice president in his absence, more so when he is on indefinite sick leave! Who and what should really come 1st, where else in the world is this done? You tell me!
My dear people, Nigeria is a great country, full of brilliant minds, eloquent, educated, able bodied citizens that can make Nigeria work, governable and relevant as it should be. Many nigerians form the think tanks of thriving governance/economies of developed countries, an average nigerian, possess leadership qualities, it is innate, we need little or no motivation to be upwardly mobile and desiring a better life, If not we will not be speaking our minds and analysing as we are all doing.
Yes try we must to let the world know that we are not all terrorists, that we are better than they think ,that we know their game, but you and I know it will fall on deaf ears, they do not care. Besides, our actions, not our words should speak loudest, so let us form a synergy, focus our attention, channel our energy, our irritation, our anger, frustrations,our disappointments, on our internal problems, our leaders, our government, ourselves, our economy, the state of our nation, it is at its lowest kerb, let us put our house in order, let us say it as it is, let us put our pride aside, our egos, and look at our own failings and seat with it, roll up our sleeves, to count the cost, the sacrifices we have to make, the instant gratification we have to deny ourselves, till we find solutions that will liberate us as a people, enable and empower us, that then spells it out loud and clear to the international community that Nigeria has taken control of its own destiny and it is no longer business as usual, sending out a message that United we will stand and fall and woe unto to those that will try to divide us.
But for now, we are the wounded, the remaining nigerians smeared in this controversy, dealt this backlash.The perpetuators of the mockery? Our leaders and Farouk Muttallab.
They exposed us to the abuse and the name calling heaped on by others especially THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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