The Reorientators

  REPORIENTATION   Nigeria: On Your Mandate We Shall Stand " A tree doesn't make a forest" so goes for the timeless popular adage within various cultural settings over the years. The case of Nigerians living in Nigeria should not be an exceptional case at all but with the realities on ground one may be tempted to conclude that Nigerians are no longer interested in standing and protecting the mandate of Nigeria any longer. Gone are the days of promotion of virtues, integrity, self service, honesty, commitment, loyalty, mutual understanding, dedication, obedience, observance of rule of law, regional development among other things that could be regarded as our pride and national assets. But today reverse is the case because of what we are witnessing are direct opposite of what we should be witnessing in the country.  Like the great apostle Paul wrote to the people at Galatians, "O foolish Galatians, and who has bewitched you... I put it to every Nigerian that, "O ...

  REPORIENTATION   WE WILL NOT KEEP QUIET  Seconds roll into a minute, Minutes into an hour, Hours into a day, Days into a week, Weeks will soon roll into a month, And months into a year, and it goes on and on. Folding our arms to watch the enemy take all that is ours is not the best posture.We need to take a posture that demands accountability, protection, fairness and empathy. Words will fail me if I choose to describe our present state in terms of security and how unmoved our leaders are. Would it be another ridiculous song of moving on and granting amnesty to the merchants of death destroying our seeds? Now that the future has been taken captive in the wilderness, what are we living for? Tell me, what are we living for? Now, tell me, who exactly can be justified in a nation that normalises grief? Do not forget, a shot has been fired, we should all expect a recoil, screams have gone forth, echoes would soon be heard. A grave is being dug, and a nation is gradually sink...

  REPORIENTATION   The Last Wall of Defence The captain of a ship cannot defend it alone. Every man on deck is a wall of defence, and together, they become a formidable force, stronger than the Great Wall of China or the ancient walls of Jericho. Yet, a compromise by just one man can sink the entire ship. Evil thrives in a willing heart and spreads in chains. Whether from the top down or the bottom up, a single loophole in the wall gives way to the deceitful thread of evil. Those entrusted to secure lives now toy with them. Brothers no longer recognise their own. Tears and blood have become freely flowing commodities. No one seems ready to stand as a wall of defence. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye. The consequences of yesterday’s evil have become our reality today... and if we remain insensitive, the consequences of today’s evil will shape tomorrow. No one is coming to save us. You and I are the last wall of defence. Let it stop with me. Let it stop with you. Then the ...

  REPORIENTATION   IN MOTION   In motion, progress should be the bedrock whether slow or fast, it may not matter but we must move. When no movement is observed, death is suspected, for it is characteristic of living things to move. When terrorists begin to move faster than a state can imagine,  trouble is logging in, when bandits device better frameworks, problem is refreshing and when abductors have better security intelligence, the Window of "wahala" is just starting.  My saying is simple; our system is not effective. The priority of a working system is the security of its citizens alike- young and old. A bad system will see no wrong in insecurity because the ones in charge always walk in armour tanks.  We have better things to invest in and security is at the base of the list. We are as vulnerable as a roofless building. Oh! We are yet to settle within our walls, how do we add ornaments to our great walls? Do we have to wait till our gates are knocked wi...

  True Love There are many national ingredients and elements that make a country to grow to the desired taste of citizens. Part of those national ingredients and elements include - patriotism, love, mutual understanding, honesty, peaceful co-existence, contentment, respect, integrity and lots more. Like a country of our status and national assets we have many things to offer the global village. However, before we go to international stage to deliver any resourceful and purposeful results we need to go national and local first as a matter of seriousness on our parts. We cannot be desirous of mending the roof of our distant villages when our own roofs are equally leaking.  If our leaders are serious at all and truly desire to portray themselves as good ambassadors of the country then let it be that they demonstrate true love and concern for the citizens with their words, lifestyles and attitudes. It's an open secret that our leaders are living large at the expense of the citizen...

REPORIENTATION EMPOWERMENT A knapsack sprayer, #5,000 plus free lunch is enough empowerment for a constituency: nothing empowers better than a full tummy, I guess. Our feeble hands are raised by their free lunch and in less than five hours the clouds of hunger begins to gather. After making great sacrifices to the gods, so that we may bid poverty farewell, it keeps giving us warm welcome as it awaits us even before we get home, handling us cups of chilled juice for a fresh start. Maybe the gods are too busy to pacify poverty or we are not doing the rituals well. Surely, it is the latter.  What we do is pruning. We prune poverty to create more branches rather than uproot its entirety. What many government organizations and the NGOs in this country do is no bigger than a joke, since their concealed goal is to make a name for themselves and not really to empower. They only want to show power NOT to give power to the underprivileged members. A redefinition of goals is one major thing t...