The Reorientators

 REPORIENTATION MOVE, DON'T BE MOVED When a car begins to require the anointing of palms and laying of hands, it is no news that such a vehicle needs help. But it is very expedient that it is tapped into life because it is not to be pushed but push us to our destinations. Therefore, everything needs be fixed lest it fixes stress into our system just as it is happening now. We push almost everything about this nation to work, even the aviation sector. We cry for social amenities for centuries we will still need weep for their maintenance for ages. What a terrible way of life we have grown into. We waste resources like collected rain water. Projects are executed half way and left till a good Samaritan comes to rescue. And if none walks the avenue, it dies with the investment and fades out of life. If by chance, projects are executed, in 12months they are as good as a madman's apparel. Nobody to monitor and maintain.  The beneficiaries and the benefactors make no seat for a maint...

 *REPORIENTATION* TRUST Who should we trust? The one with a plate of saliva inviting, heat emiting plate of pepper soup on the first palm but with a skin peeling whip behind, or the other with a rod and a basket of fruits behind should one trust? Their appearance contradicts their profession and confessions. Betrayers wearing the clothes of our saviour. The ones we believe will comfort us have some thorns for our backs. Even the supposed hope of the common will do no common good without settlement and if you fail, to do them good, the guilty transfigures into a saint and the saint bears the load of sin.  Almost everyone wants to be bribed before doing what they are supposed to do, it has become a way of life in every establishment. Bribery has taken over becoming a right no one can wrong as it unseats Kings and replaces truth magically. We have learned to celebrate lies with great excitement. When people are determined to do evil, they create excuses even when none exists. I d...

 REPORIENTATION KNOWLEDGE "... A person can't succeed outside his personal educational qualification...anybody who misses education has missed everything..."         - President M. Buhari I know the above makes reference to formal education but what wonders we are performing in our educational sector that makes anyone that misses it miss life is what I am yet to possess the understanding of.  We want miracles to happen even when our practices are not too good. Our educational sector is as valuable as what-not. Good teachers are not encouraged, many don't even have a sustainable job. All thanks to many private school owners who afford them their daily meal even when they make it difficult for them to access the meal. I do not understand the educational system that gives students who didn't get good marks in their examinations especially UTME  a very good opportunity to be enrolled in the College of Education. What is worth celebrating in that system?...

 *REPORIENTATION* WILL When a lack of will is present in full entourage amidst a group, inadequacy displays itself full frame. The security issue in this nation is no big deal, it only requires the government wanting to deal with it. I know you will agree with me that it is only a matter of WILL. Don't you think a nation that can arrest a supposed threat in a foreign country will surely sort the foxes from the dogs within her borders? A will to serve the nation will just do. Triviality is the business in our national assembly, placing age restriction on UTME applicants when vital issues behold them like spectators in the gallery. You can imagine the funny Nigerians budgeting the whole of 4.8billion NGN to monitor threats on WhatsApp when our agricultural and educational sectors need improved health care facilities. Even when you give them grants of way out pretending they do not have any, they will loiter till the opportunity slips away. Or, try offering an interest-free loan of so...

 *REPORIENTATION* DEPTHS AND HEIGHTS Oh what depth of greed we have fallen into The height of selfishness we cannot scale It torments like the bath of devil's bean  And troubles like the prick of a thorn Oh the depth of decadence we have slipped into The height of inhumanity we have attained "I am well fed, I do not care what befall others" That is how far we have gone Oh what depth of lack we have pushed our nation into The height of irresponsibility and negligence Loans and grants are taken and swallowed up in hades Of what benefit is the loan but to drag the name of nation in the muds even after it's been soiled Oh what depth of understanding we have refused to dive into The height of knowledge we have refused to climb Will equity and justice not bring peace Will empathy not walk security down the aisle Oh what depth of love we need express The height of concern to others show To live in this land with peace of mind And drive banditry et lawlessness into exile Oh w...