At some point, it looked like we were going under, like this is a hopeless nation. But you kept us. What broke others made us stronger. So we bring thanks in spite of our many struggles. We are glad to be here, on the threshold of another brand new year. It has been a long year, a year of ups and downs. This is year you exposed the rump of many chickens and demystified those we thought were infallible. You preserved the masses even when they were served poisons right from January 1.
You encouraged flood victims when those who were supposed to give them succour stole from them. You gave them strength when those who were well arrayed left them in the cold. You kept this nation together in spite of every threat and prediction of breakup. For these and many blessings we are grateful. However, we need to report ourselves to you before our leaders make their new year resolutions. Considering what they did to us this year, we need to hand them over to you before they make new plans and execute us. Yes, execute us. Dear Lord, you really have to help us out here.
We are poor, needy and in distress but we are many. We can pray. We can shout louder than our oppressors and you said if your people that are called by your name return to you, you will heal their land. You said you are our present help in time of distress. What is more, our leaders have everything, great mansions, sleek jets and bullet-proof automobiles. We have nothing but our distress. Please don’t let them rob us blind in 2013. With everything that makes you God, stop them whichever way you can from making our lives miserable in the coming year. We cannot take their comforts from them but you can.
If they dip their hands in our tiny pockets to further stuff their overflowing ones, take away their comforts. We know you are a merciful God, forgive their past sins if you want, but don’t let them get away with fresh thieving. These leaders, not all of them are leading. Many are raiders. Bless those who bless us and curse those who are causing us to live like a cursed nation. Those who wake up every day determined to make money to further impoverish us, let them see the side of you that makes you the Terrible One and Lord of hosts.
We know you know all of them, including those who pretend to be on our side. Those who take money meant for our roads and pocket them and those who see them doing it and turn their eyes away. Those who profit from untimely death of helpless Nigerians. Those who bring in outdated, dead hospital equipment just because they can afford treatment abroad. Those who occupy critical offices in critical sectors of the economy but watch the nation go to waste, you know them. They are the eaters of our flesh and the drinkers of our blood.
You know what you promised to do to such people. Hear the voices, the groans of millions of youths in Nigeria who have no jobs because the raiders have eaten both profit and capital of this project called Nigeria. For 430 years, the Israelites were under their task masters in Egypt, labouring under heavy yokes until you heard their groaning and decided to do something about their tears. In the new year, shame the Pharaohs and deliver us from bondage.
I know you know that Pharaoh and his horses and their riders all perished in the sea. We, all 150 million Nigerians minus the raiders, are asking with faith that you show up as the Mighty Man in Battle. Because Lord, we are really at the shore of the Red Sea and we do not know how to cross to safety. We are desperate. We are afraid. We have no weapons. Our raiders have everything. We can’t even sue them successfully. You need to show up, let them know that you made the foundations of the world.
I can tell you this, these people are drinking champagne and cognac straight from the bottle and are so drunk they are beginning to think they created themselves. Will you let them get away with thinking that you, God, does not exist? Will you? We know that taking what belongs to us has become second nature to our raiders. They probably can’t stop stealing but we need them to increase ‘our allocation’. We know they will want to buy more jets, more houses while more roads fall apart and our children fail more examinations. Touch their hearts to do what is right otherwise you can smite them on the cheeks…
We have suffered great losses this year. We have had many burials. Both young and old trees have fallen. We cannot query you. We can only beg you to grant them eternal rest. Our fathers also taught us to thank you in every situation. So, we thank you. Now,dear Raiders of the Federal Republic (RFR), you need to repent now, before the arrival of the seven plagues of Egypt at your doorsteps. For the avoidance of confusion, these are the qualities of RFR. They profit while the nation looses. They make money off the sweat on the bent backs of the masses. They take money meant for improving education.
They celebrate their wealth at every available opportunity. They are the reasons there is daily carnage on our roads. They deploy bureaucracy to ensure the lives of Nigerians are difficult. They take bribes to deliver judgement. They hoard PHCN metres. They hide files in Ministries. They cook the books and share unspent funds from their budgets between 27th and midnight of December 31 every year. They inflate budgets and spend money meant for healthcare on travel allowances. They let national robbers get away with national robbery.
They make Nigeria unliveable, our lives unbearable.RFR join hands and conspire to make us all live in poverty surrounded by wealth. They make carrying a green passport a shame. They make us a laughing stock while they stack up wealth for their unborn great grand children.
May I remind them that nothing lasts forever and that no matter what they think; they WILL reap what they have sown, in 2013. Happy New Year.
TheSun
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