{"id":32297,"date":"2014-10-19T15:32:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T14:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=32297"},"modified":"2014-10-19T15:32:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T14:32:56","slug":"fools-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/fools-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Fools Rule!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0By<\/strong>\u00a0Gbenro Olajuyigbe<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\u2019- Edmund Burke.<\/p>\n

To govern Nigeria, foolishness is not \u00a0a handicap! As a matter of fact, it is an added advantage! \u00a0The intelligent environment is dead. We have replaced the hollow of its demise with suffocating bigotry and stood logic and science of truth on their heads.\u00a0 We have become a hot topic for research on the overthrow of rationalism and decency, a paradoxical theory on how dog leads lions!\u2019 \u00a0Before i go further, let me also admit my own failure as part of the group that surrendered the potentials embedded in \u2018activism without borders\u2019 to the tantalising moderate but characteristically less effective NGOism – the evolution that eventually\u00a0 nailed the coffin of genuine activism, \u00a0crippled the culture of street \u00a0protest \u00a0and\u00a0 has grounded the mill of revolution in Nigeria. We are today\u00a0 tucked in between bread and bravery.\u00a0 Our\u00a0 story is the tragic re-incarnation of the\u00a0 colonial French Policy of Assimilation. We are now paid for our passion. The passion has become regimented by the paymasters. Our Bank Accounts are rising but our spirit gets deflated by the little thorny conscience that lies at the gate of our spirit. The boundaries of our theatre are now defined and drawn by the strange cartographers of the maps of our movements and their actions. We have been driven to comfort zone where our nearest neighbours are the same people that torment us. We now share wine with the ruthless capitalists whose hands are stained with the blood of their salvage workers. We are on the same dinner table with \u00a0shylocks who continue to complexify\u00a0 escape route to freedom and magnify the yoke of oppression. With shallow thoughts and temporary relief we are walking into the future defined by enemies of people. Future without freedom. Future paved with pains and pan caked with the reess toils of wretched workers and labouring poor. In worse cases, we become the navigators of the broad way to slavery.\u00a0 \u00a0Socialism in the hands of my peers and comrades has become the Capitalism of the wretched! \u00a0Through our choice(s) we have elongated the windy path to freedom and encumbered the ladder for the emancipation of our people. We have betrayed the cause and on daily basis becoming friends of our unrepentant enemies. The flight of our courage has emboldened the resolve of oppressors to continue on the path of serving vinegar as breakfast and gall as dinner to our people. We are the missing link in the chain of revolution and genuine transformation. We abandoned our duty of providing leadership to the oppressed and chose the easier way of self adulation. Our dereliction of duty is the single reason the oppressors are having the field day. Those who refuse to halt evil doing and de-capacitate evil doers \u00a0are bound to \u00a0cause more damage than all \u00a0the host of \u00a0evil doers. Our indolence is now bearing fruits. We now have a country dedicated to falsehood, mischief and anguish!\u00a0 A \u00a0nation where truth is slaughtered on the threshing floor of expediency.\u00a0 A country ghastly becoming a paradise for rogues and\u00a0 hell for the just.\u00a0 A country where ignorance and mischief control discussions, decide debates and define direction. A country where the rule by Fools\u00a0 has become inevitable! \u00a0A country where \u00a0those who looted over Two(2) Trillion Naira Oil Subsidy are becoming Transformation Ambassadors. A country with unresolved\u00a0 several scandals ranging from Bullet Proof Cars through unremitted NNPC Revenues, Immigration Service Recruitment\u00a0 Death to Black Market Arms Scandal deserve a day with destiny. Just as the poor are in pain, their oppressors must keep a date with gruesome grief.<\/p>\n

A country where about 160 persons were vicariously and negligently killed by a \u2018Prophet\u2019 through\u00a0 illegally erected building\u00a0 that eventually collapsed and the \u2018prophet\u2019 was rewarded with a gubernatorial and a Presidential condolence visits needs the help of Surgeons. A Country where you can sleep as a pauper and wake up a billionaire without\u00a0 record of enterprise and productivity needs deliverance!<\/p>\n

Unless we move from prolonged culture of indiscriminate sycophantic slavery to embrace the civilization of liberty by relying on our explosive history of courage that was interrupted by pseudo- activism, singing song of freedom will remain an illusion. The worst form of injustice we are perpetrating as \u00a0activists is the compassion we show to those whose passion in power is always to unleash cruelty on the poor masses and castrate their potentials for recovery from the socio-economic abyss into which they are sunk. Our inaction has retarded the progress of our country more than the damaging action of thieving successive governments. We can no longer make excuses for our inaction. History beckons; and victory is certain if only we retrace our steps and hold on to the ancient values of self sacrifice, class suicide and dogged commitment that derive their source from the same hill –\u00a0 courage of conviction!<\/p>\n

\u00a0What counts now, as Adlai Stevenson\u00a0 affirmed\u00a0 \u2018is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us – What conviction, \u00a0what courage, what faith \u2013 win or lose.\u2019<\/p>\n

Gbenro Olajuyigbe is an Abuja based Human Security Expert and a Human Rights Activist.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

E:Mail: gbenroolajuyigbe@yahoo.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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