MY NIGERIA..PART I

AWOS' LEGACY TODAY.

Omo Yoruba, Mokinyi oh...I dob-ale and seek permission to speak and ask questions...

When will your revive the legacies of Awolowo? You eulogize and revere him daily yet your actions and deeds spite him in the face. When will you realize that the massive number of professionals you boast of today are a result of the "free education for the west" policy he brought? When will you realize that that crop of professionals (Professors, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers...name them) are fast fading and it will soon be gone? When will you realize that when Awo paved the way for the Yoruba into the UK, US and the world entire, he did it for the future? Yet the same people that benefited from his foresight are charging over a million Naira per child just on tuition not mentioning accommodation and feeding in their "private institutions" today. I am certain Baba Awo shifts in his grave whenever a "son/daughter of Oduduwa"  does not go to school for whatever reason. But that is the case when you move from Ikare to Akure, Illesha to Ife, Oshogbo, Ibadan, Lagos to Abeokuta, all you see is "sons/daughters of Oduduwa" hawking on the highway during school hours, working to 'earn a living'. Are these same people the future Engineers, Professors, Doctors and Lawyers or should we wait for another crop of youths? When will you realize that in the near future (it has started in fact), the braggadocio you do about "having the most educated and qualified people in Nigeria" will be a thing of the past? You are now after money at all cost. Using every means known and unknown to man, just to "arrive and be recognized" in the society, wearing big agbada, heavy beads round your neck and hands with the latest of everything (from jewelry to cars) yet no solid footing and no 'back up plan' simply in the quest for "recognition" from people that are also doing same thing as you. No wonder it fades as soon as it appears with shooting star kind of effect. When will you go back to the drawing board of Awolowo? When will you bring back 'FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL'? You own and run the highest number of Academic and Religious Institutions in the country yet your own sons and daughters can't afford to be educated in them. The elite among you now prefer having their wads getting higher education outside the shores of the country. Could it be because you have lost confidence in your own "Professionals"? Or because you are more confident in the standard the "white man" has set and you can't replicate same in yours? Could it also be that you have too much to spend that the Institutions you manage are too cheap for your kids? If any of these happen to be the reason, I plead with you to have a rethink, allow Awolowo to truly rest in Peace.

And again, when will you stop putting your "brother/sister" who is not qualified into offices and jobs just because, 'omo yoruba ni oh"? (I must admit that that is one thing I deeply admire about you, and it's a good thing to help a "brother/sister" but not when they are not qualified for positions), besides not everyone "learns on the job" as you often protest when confronted. When will you have one allegiance and stick with it till the end (politically and otherwise)? When will you stop "snitching"? (I've been called a snitch once and that is not a pill I can swallow ever again). How do you manage to hold that banner so high with pride that you don't even feel the weight pull you down? Why must everything be for your benefit or you are 'out' broadcasting it? For once learn to stand and fight to the blood, you either win or loose, no chickening out. Stop using "he that runs away from a fight lives to fight another day" in the wrong contexts and for heavens sake there is this term called "privacy", the world don't want to know what is inside your "sokoto" so please learn to hold it together.

You claim to be the "smartest and wisest" yet everyone knows what you are doing except you. The ostrich survival technique does not work anywhere anymore. Stop looking down on others because at the end you are the one down. You call the Northerner who comes to your place selling Kola nut "aboki", ten years down the line, you call him Alhaji because he has blossomed in "your land" right before your eyes, another ten years, your are crowning him "King of the Northerners" in that community, another ten years, his dynasty controls yours, so who is the "aboki" at the end?

Only if you can convert your unity of purpose and love for your race into compassion and development...

Only if you can Educate the next generation the way your elders and big figures are...

Only if you can stand and fight to the FINISH...

So much drifting away from Greatness...

So much "Sense"....

Faded and Past Glory....

No much impact anymore. 

Shame! Shame!! Shame!!!

If only you can go back to the Legacy that once made you Great...

Note: I look forward to when you will rally round Tinubu to tell him that he has conquered when it comes to Politics, but he is yet to conquer in sending your ever growing multitude of children back to school to regain the glory that is fast sgoing. He is the Awolowo of today I believe (at least they wear same glasses, almost look alike and wield same political power over the west)...Omo Oduduwa, Ekaro ooo...Ji