Most times, it’s based on belief. Other times, it’s based on the dream. Or the inception. The inception of something new. Or something refreshing. Like the beginning of a new relationship not yet past the honeymoon phase. Or the mumu phase if you prefer. It’s always the best part.
Like the orchestra playing your favorite part of the symphony. Like the hmmmm sound your mouth makes when it tastes an extremely good serving of cake or chocolate. Always the best part. Ok enough with the sweet sugary thoughts.
But then, thoughts are important, dreams can be funny and reality can be prejudiced and deceptive at the same time. The world has become insane and the Nigerian society has become a scene for public scorn and ridicule. We are all over the news for the most negative reasons. CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera does know how to make it rain.
The recent abduction of 234 under aged girls explains it all. Where we are headed as a collective society and nation should no longer be in doubt. Especially if right under our collective noses, the #Chibok girls are kidnapped and our president carries on like nothing has happened. About 16 days after the #Chibok kidnapping, another bomb goes off in the same Nyanya area killing more scores of people.
Black or white. That has always been my definition of everything. However, the real world is a tapestry of face value, deception and unwholesome gray areas advertised in garnished truths and half truths. That pronouncement by the Army that the #Chibok girls have been rescued barely 72 hours after their abduction is the height of deception. No apology has since been made for the error. But of course we live in Nigeria. Anything goes around here.
Our collective dreams and the dreams of our fathers for a better Nigeria seem gloomier now than before. This import has far reaching impact on our fathers. Sometimes, I look at my father and I can feel his frustration on the Nigerian predicament.
His generation has seen Nigeria go from bad to worse before their very eyes with little or nothing they can do to alter their collective fate. Living with that must be a big burden. But then our own generation seems headed towards that.
In our generation, well planned and well coordinated bombs go off randomly at the gruesome behest of our attackers. 234 girls are abducted in a single sweep. Our president dances #alanta and #alingo barely 24 hours after the most cataclysmic course of events befall our nation. Political dance? No?
Our generation might be indeed worse off as we seem headed to the gallows; the alter of destruction. Perhaps we will walk out a better nation and people. Perhaps we will rally together and fight this together as a collective nation.
The various demonstrations in Lagos and Abuja to help coerce the government into acting may be a noble and right thing to do. In fact, in other climes, it would be enough to make the government shift in its space and act accordingly. But not Nigeria as history of demonstrations in the recent past suggests.
Truth be said, after a couple of more weeks, the news on the #Chibok girls will die down whether they are released or not. And we shall go back to business as usual. That’s what this government is waiting for. It has always worked. It won’t be different this time.
God help us all (for those who believe).
Foye.
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