""Truly, we were born with
nothing, but when wecame into this world, we all need something and if we work
hard enough, we willacquire something. However, Causing division and
destruction on the surface ofthis earth is not the best way to acquire whatever
we desire.
Therefore, If you are a christian, be a good Christian. If you
are a Muslim, be a good Muslim. Even if you are a traditionalist, just be a good
one. It is my believe that, if every Muslim and christian in the world choose to
be good, there will be little or no problem in the world.""
Public enemies are citizens that
derive joy in public disorder,create enmity among tribes, promote sectionalism
and widen religious divide between citizens for selfish benefits. They love
anarchy than peace and gain from negative occurrences.
They mostly hide under the bannerof
their religion or tribe to perpetrate this evil agenda against the nation,but
many are still unaware of their destructive agenda.
With this unholy pursuit, some had
gotten to the position of authority,occupying various high offices,
attain celebrity status as well as being regarded as respected religious
figures.
This is so unfortunate for Nigeria as many young people have joined
this cliq to continue the trend of negativity especially on the social media.
It is equally unfortunate
that Nigeria has gotten to a stage where young victims of misrule and bad government are
made to ignore integrity and capability to deliver good governance in making
choice of leaders, they are rather programmed to be concerned about the religion
or ethnicity of the intending leaders. Majorly, this is the handy work of the
public enemy.
It has deteriorated to an
extent where, irrespective of the competence and capability of an intending
leader to deliver good governance, his religion or ethnicity is mostly a
constrain.
The beneficiaries of this
ugly scenario ensured that, to have follower-ship and be loved by Nigerians,
the easiest means to achieve this is to follow one of the two (2) means.
Religion or ethnicity.
Let me explain how these 2factors
are utilized in the Nigerian polity.
1.
Religious bigotry.
If you are a Muslim, you have to
attack anything Christianity, condemn it, claim they are marginalizing
Muslims,insult Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and every thing related to
Christianity.
After this is done, check your public support level and trust me,
you will find that some large crowd of ignorant Muslims are always supporting
you no matter how stupid and unreasonable you sound. It doesn’t matter if you
are not making sense, it also doesn’t matter even if what you are doing is
against the principle of Islam, just do it and claim you are doing it to protect
Islam and your Muslim brothers.
Also, if you area Christian, make
sure you master the act of using English language to redefine minimization.
Attack Muslims, condemn them, abuse Prophet Muhammed, insult everything Islamic.
Call Muslims terrorists, blood suckers and murderers. Claim Christians are being
marginalized, hit up the polity with unguided statements to further widen the
divide and be rest assured, your public support level will rise
dramatically.
It doesn’t matter if you are senselessly doing it to gain wealth
and publicity, it alsodoesn’t matter if you are doing it out of your own
stupidity and bigotry.
You even stand a greater chance if
you are known to be either an Islamic cleric or Pastor like Pastor Ayo
Oritsejafor, Shiekh Gunmi and their likes leading a congregation or
an organization.
If you are a pastor, you can sign a
gentle man agreement with an Islamic scholar and both of you shall engage in
this public exchange of religious attack since it is a lucrative venture.
When you go public,raise your voice
among the Christians and tell them how Muslims are trying to Islamize Nigeria.
Your Islamic colleague would do the same among the Muslims and both of you shall
command huge ignorant follower-ship.
I recall a fraudulent incident that
occurred in Taraba state in 2010
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (efcc) arraigned 3 clerics, 2 leaders of the Taraba state chapter of
the Muslim Council, Alhaji Inuwa Usman and Alhaji Chindo Boseand a reverend
father, Rev. john Simon Jatutu who is the leader of CAN in the state.
According to report, economic and
financial crimes commission (efcc) arraigned the 3 clerics before Justice M.S
Shuaibu of the federal high court, Yola in Adamawa state on a six count charge
bordering on money laundering and obtaining N10 million by false pretense. Efcc
stated that, the Muslim clerics were alleged to have conspired with Rev. Jatutu
to divert part of the funds approved towards the celebration of
the country’s golden jubilee.
A statement by the head of publicity
of the efcc, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren said, the Taraba state government had
approved in September 2010 the sum of N42 million for the Christian Association
of Nigeria and Muslim Council for purpose of the 50th independent
celebration.
However, the 3accused persons
cornered N10million each from the Muslim Councils and CAN share of the grant.
Members of the groups later got wind of the actual figure approved for them
which prompted a petition to the efcc.
It is worth to note that, when christian
and islamic clerics pursue personal interest of engaging in stealing what is
meant for the large group, they are united and see no barrier. But after sharing
the loot, barrier will suddenly surface and they pitch citizens against each
other.
Furthermore, It has been observed
that, If you choose to be an objective person in terms of religious issue,
neither your fellow religious person nor others from the other religion would
take you as friend.
If you are a Muslim for example, make
sure you do not condemn any Muslim leader when they act wrongly. Instead, praise
and defend the leaders or just keep silent. To them, that is religious loyalty.
Also, If a christian leader act
wrongly, don’t try to condemn him or her unless you are ready for war of words.
If your name is Abdulrazaq for
example, no matter how truthful, objective or sincere you are,expect to be
attacked from various quarters. Christians shall hit you hard,call you all sort
of names, blooding sucking boko haram,hypocrite,hater etc.Even when they are victims
of the same abusive action, they prefer to be victim and defend their fellow
religious fellow than to be truthful.
Therefore,unless you are ready to
loose friends and be very unpopular like me, don’t tryto be neutral and
objective in religious discuss.
To gain friends and be famous among
Muslims, be a Muslim bigot, and to be popular among Christians,be a christian
bigot. If you are the objective type, both Christians and Muslims don’t care
about your neutrality, very few truthful, objective and sincere adherent of both
faith would adore you.
Truly, we were born with nothing,
but when we came into this world, we all need something and if we work hard
enough, we will acquire something. However, Causing division and destruction on
the surface of this earth is not the best way to acquire whatever we desire.
Therefore,If you are a christian, be
a good Christian. If you are a Muslim, be a good Muslim.
Even if you are
a traditionalist, just be a good one. It is my believe that, if every Muslim
and christian in the world choose to be good, there will be little or no problem
in the world.
2.
Regional hypocrites:
Another major route to fame in
Nigeria is being a regional hypocrite.
When names such as Femi Fani kayode,
Edwin Clarck, Femi Aribisala, Adamu Ciroma, Junaid and others come to
mind, nothing is remembered of them other than the regional rants and divide
they are promoting.
When you visit the social media space
for example, there are countless regional champions trying to undo each other by
means of spreading propaganda and lies to get popular. These hypocrites are
divided between North and South.
No matter how incompetent a northern
leader is, never criticize him, else, the northern regional champions would
attack like there is a war. Also, No matter how incompetent a southern leader
is, don’t attempt to express your opinion about his leadership or else, expect
bashing from these regional champions. Though, they mostly claim to be regional
champions, but in reality, they are nothing, but regional destroyers.
These regional destroyers don’t need
to know the individual leaders, they also don’t need to be aware of the issue is
discuss or have any prior knowledge, even if the individual is guilty or not,
they don’t care, reasonable or unreasonable, it doesn’t matter. They are ready
to defend everything, by any means no matter how evil it is.
With the way they blindly claim
to defend their region, you will get an impression that they love the region and
are passionate about defending its general interest, but a close examination
reveals that,personal gains and undeserved honor is their target.
If you ask yourself, who are those
defending president Jonathan, Stella Oduah, Allisson Madueke and others despite
the obvious failure in this administration? 95% are from the South.
To them, it doesn’t matter if
$20billion is unaccounted for, it doesn’t matter if Stella Oduah spent
N250million meant for the public on her personal upkeep, it doesn’t matter if
the president can’t guarantee security of lives and properties, it doesn’t matter
if over 200 girls are missing for over 2 months, it doesn’t matter if ASUU went
on strike for over 5 months, it also doesn’t matter if ASUP have been on strike
for over 8 months keeping polytechnic students at home.
Again, who are those defending Sanusi
Lamido, Sule Lamido and others? 95% are from the North. To them also, it doesn’t
matter if Sanusi had misappropriated billions, it doesn’t matter if he does
selective donation of public funds, it doesn’t matter if a CBN governor gave
wrong figures that misled the whole nation and subject thecountry to
international ridicule, it also doesn’t matter if the children of Lamido are
found with huge public funds.
Their basis for defending and
supporting these people are not about the issues, but false regional loyalty and
personal interest.
Consequently, any Nigerian that speak
truth and remain objective on national issue is seen by both side of the divide
as an enemy that must be hated by all means. Such enemies as they perceive are
assumed to be working against their regional interest no matter where they come
from.
For example, if a man from Beyalsa
state find the government of Good luck Jonathan as being very poor and expresses
such in public domain, such man may be attacked and regarded as an enemy working
against south south interest.
The regional category is even further
divided into ethnic and tribal champions. The likes of Asari Dokubo and others
that consider promoting one single ethnic group within a region are perfect
examples. To these groups, anything outside their ethnic group is a threat that
must be neutralized or eliminated. Through such regional blind promotion, many
had become famous and enjoy public respect within their sphere of clout.
So, if you want to enjoy such status,
you can never be neutral, truthful or objective when discussing national issues.
These groups are like boko haram that believes in only one principle,’’ its
either you are with us or against us’’. If you are with them, forget about
neutrality, objectivity and sincerity. Just channel every of your words and
action toward promoting the vision no matter how bad it is. Here, Nigeria’s
interest and the good of general public is never a consideration,what is
considered is basically the maintenance of power by that regional interest.
Finally, let me end this piece by
noting that, these set of groups and individuals are the public enemies hiding
under fake regional loyalty. They cannot benefit the nation in anyway, neither
can they benefit the region they claim to represent.
The good people of every region must
quickly identify these set of destroyers and dissociate themselves from it to
avoid giving the bad people privilege over the good.
BY Abdulrazaq O Hamzat
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