I owe no one apologies, so I must state my mind the way it is and the way it will always be. A wise word says that he that comes to equity should come with clean hands ( not sure I got that right) .from amalgamation to independence a country some describes as zoo with the official name Nigeria was created. I sat down one very good morning to ask myself why this set of people called their acclaimed mother land a zoo but the logical answer was no where to be found so I dosed off, sound of a large bang I heard between my subconscious mind made me to spring up only to discover that my corps colleague made that bang on the door. He wanted to use my gas and I shaked myself only to discover that In the subconscious I was in Borno state where I heard that boko haram are attacking, rushing to go out I remembered that my dictionary was on the table. I was about to pick it when the loud bang woke me. I went straight to the dictionary it was still there on my table and a first flip brought the alphabet Z. My hands went searching for the word zoo as if I had never known the meaning before.I slapped myself with a question did you really have to check?.
The word zoo means a park where live animal are exhibited and figuratively it means any place that is wild,crowded and chaotic.I went through the second definition and then I realised that this people called their mother land a zoo because (1) it is a chaotic and wild entity where domesticated animals are fed to wild animals. That definition became the zenith of my findings.
What exactly is this looming tragedy?
Do I have any idea? I doubt.
An event that took place some days back when a former Governor of an oil rich state decided to honour an EFCC invitation over petition level against him. The whole media went in flames and it became a trending topic on Twitter. More fans, friends and foes went agog ditching out verbal and written slanders on each other and the subject matter of discussion. Someone was jailed and sentenced before the person in question even answered the petition. A friend of mind asked me do you support selective fight on corruption? I said without even a rethink No.he retorted, I support, that the fight of corruption must start somewhere. I smile then told him( not the physical him but his that was in my mind) that selective fight of corruption is the worst form of corruption itself. It breeds a new set of Kings of corruption that would feel they are untouchable and when the grabs of power is off their grip, they fight back with every arsenal at their disposal to avoid persecution the same way the persecuted others. Then it breeds a new set of disloyal men that clinch to whoever is in power so as not to be persecuted. The Bible says whatever your hand finds to do, do it well. You can't witch hunt one alleged corrupt politician because he is in the opposition and in the the same vain you are rallying support to make another alleged corrupt politician a minister because he is in the governing party. You ever wonder why Jesus Christ told those that wanted to stone the adulterous woman that he that has not sin before should cast the first stone? Because hypocrisy stinks to God and he hates it with a passion. If Nigeria wants to fight corruption, it should cut across all ethnic divides irrespective of who ever is involved.
I repeat, selective corruption fight is the worst form of corruption, a looming tragedy and a puritanical abnegation. This recurring decimal is what has kept Nigeria at the level it is now. Written by Edidiong Akpan
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