POLITICS OF DEAD CONSCIENCE IN NIGERIA; BY ATTAMAH C. MALACHY
Conscience is the internal watch-dog of every reasonable person and the absence of it makes one a devil among angels. The Nigerian political system is corrupt because its politicians are of dead conscience. They have sold their conscience to the wind; hence the entire governmental system appears to be ill-affected. Nothing seems to be working right because the head is seriously suffering from the deadly virus of corruption. In fact, none of Nigeria politicians has the fear of our national laws at heart; neither do they have the fear of the Supreme God. When you pay attention to what these cabals say when they go out for political campaign, you will understand what I am saying. They don't have shame because their conscience is dead and that is why they tell all manners of lies, just to make their way to the Aso rock.
Why will you ask us to re-vote you into power before you may give us our entitlements as citizens? Even when you have denied us same for the past six years you have been in the Aso Rock? What have you been doing with them? You said until we re-elect you before you can bring an end to insurgency in our country. What have you been doing since the emergence of the insurgency? Many of our brethren have been massacred; many have been held hostage for what they are not responsible for while many have been left homeless. The poor innocent Nigerians are dying of hunger and frustration as a result of injustice, impunity and corruption that have become the dictates of your ill-baked administration; yet you never acted, and you want us to re-elect you. What a shameless and corrupt political system!
Must you fool us before we elect you? Must you sing several choruses of deceit before we re-elect you, if truly you deserve another chance? You need not to struggle before convincing reasonable Nigerians to vote you if you have a good record to show. I suppose your previous records should do that for you if you have a good one. Please, stop fooling us because; when we hear you speak, we need not to ask who you are; when we see you act, it corroborates your deceitful words.
Nigeria politicians have turned the nation into a helpless country; they have made it so vulnerable to an extent that everything has fallen apart. It is only in a political system like the Nigeria's that criminals are celebrated. Imagine, corrupt officials go unpunished because of a personal imported law of freedom in democracy by one man. Is that what the law of freedom offers? Is that what democracy has brought to innocent Nigerians? I am in a great doubt!
Nigeria needs a messiah and we are like the expectant pregnant woman. We are yet to see a better Judas among these self-acclaimed messiahs. Is it the man that allows corrupt officials to go free in the name of freedom in democracy; or the man whom his record in 1983 has proved him an enemy of democracy? The man who has vowed that the nation will be bloody if he loses election, come February, 2015? Please, who is the better Judas among these two self-claimed messiahs? In my opinion, neither of the two is.
The awaited messiah is yet to come and will never come until the day Nigerians become wise and begin to make reasonable decisions. The messiah will never come until when the interest expression forms will be sold at affordable price by Nigerian political parties. The awaited messiah will never come until the day we Nigerians begin to fear the coercive power of our national laws as a result of our government enforcing them. The awaited messiah will never come until the Nigerian political system stops the zoning nonsense that has nothing to offer the country except robbing her of the true messiah. The messiah will never come until we begin to see ourselves as fellow Nigerians devoid of; religious, ethnic and tribal sentiment. The long awaited messiah will never emerge until we stop politics of deceit and dead conscience in Nigeria.
Attamah C. Malachy is an aspiring lawyer and also a passionate blogger at www.successminds.net. He has a vision for civil liberty in Africa.
