Femi Fani-Kayode, Former
Minister of Aviation, has written yet another
soul-searching article as Nigeria celebrates 56 years of independence.
Nigeria is 56 years old today. Consequently it is time to speak
some home-truths and look at where we are in the scheme of things.
It is time to consider how well our governnent has fared since
coming to power and to compare their record of service to previous
governments that were in the saddle before them. Sadly the score sheet
does not look too good.
The rigging of elections, the persecution of opposition figures,
the demonisation of dissenters, the destruction of the economy, the
pauperisation of our people, the introduction of famine, the humiliation
of Nigerians coupled with violence, impunity, aggression, intolerance
and tyranny: that is all President Muhammadu Buhari and his government
have served our people since he was sworn in on May 29th 2015.
The last one year and four months have been the worst since
independence in terms of the violation of human rights, civil liberties
and court orders by our government.
We have witnessed unprecedented mass murder, butchery, carnage and
barbarity by well-armed and highly favored Fulani herdsmen and ethnic
militias coupled with genocide and unprecedented extra-judicial killings
by our military personnel and state security forces.
We have witnessed the resurrection of Abubakar Shekau and the
mutation of Boko Haram into two powerful new factions. We have seen them
re-take towns and communities that they lost years ago and hoist their
dirty black flag in parts of the north-east.
Our government have given up on the Chibok girls and we witnessed
the humiliation, insults and physical harassment by security forces that
those who have fought for their return in the BBOG group have been
subjected to in the last few months.
We have have seen the rapid depreciation of the naira, the total
decimation of our industrial, agricultural and manufacturing sector and
the destruction and decay of virtually all our roads, airports, power
generating facilities and infra-structures.
Our government has squandered our foreign reserves. Driven away
local and foreign investment. Caused the dollar to fly away. Created an
atmosphere of fear and uncertainty in the markets.
Forced people to spend their life savings and capital just to
survive. Reduced many Nigerians to eating just one meal a day. Caused
many to withdraw their children from school simply because they cannot
afford to pay fees. And they have driven many to depression, suicide and
despair.
Unemployment is at a record high. The banks and indeed the entire
financial sector is dying because there is no liquidity. The naira is
approaching 500 naira to one US dollar which represents an over 100 per
cent depreciation in the space of one year.
We are in the middle of the worst economic recession that we have
suffered in our 56 years of exsitence as an independent nation-state.
Thousands are being laid off on a daily basis. Graduate and
non-graduate unemployment is at a record high. Food prices, the price of
transport and the price of fuel, diesal and kerosene have shot up.
Finally we have witnesed the total and complete dashing of the hopes, aspirations and dreams of the Nigerian people.
Our government is corrupt, weak, paranoid, incompetent, cowardly,
fearful of criticism, terrified of a strong opposition, unable to cope
with dissent, insensitive, delusional, wicked, sociopathic and
psychopathic.
Worse still they have attracted the opprobium, contempt, derision
and scorn of the entire international community and the derision of
major corporate investors and multi-national corporations.
The only thing that they are good at doing is blaming President
Jonathan and indeed all past PDP Presidents and governments, including
President Obasanjo, for their failures and inability to perform.
They are also pretty good at conducting media trials and
witch-hunts and indulging in Soviet-style propaganda and the
demonisation of their perceived enemies.
Yet most frightening of all is the fact that our President is out
of touch with reality. He does not appear to be living in the 21st
century.
His solutions and remedies to the complex economic problems of a
modern-nation state in 2016 are the same ones that he proffered and
which failed him woefully when he was military Head of State between
1983 and 1985. We really appear to be going down the drain under his
leadership.
I pray that God intervenes soon and does something extraordinary because this accursed government simply has to go.
They have divided us along religious and ethnic lines more than any
government in our entire history. They have come to spread poverty and
distribute shame.
They have sought to islamise our country, demean our faith, disgrace the Church and undermine our Christian leaders and clerics.
They have destabilised our nation and undermined our unity to such
an extent that the majority of our people secretly despise and covertly
pray against the continuation of a united Nigeria.
They have brought us to our very knees, turned us into a nation of
beggars and paupers and reduced us to cowardly and timid slaves.
They seek to break us, cause us to crawl, crush our spirits,
torment our souls and compel us to accept a North Korean-style system of
government with its cultic worship of a maximum ruler who sees himself
as a demi-god and deity that must be obeyed and worshipped by all.
Such is Mr. Presidents desire and craving for worship and such has
the spirit if narcissus seized and possessed him that he even had a man
arrested, detained and prosecuted for daring to name his dog after him.
Yet thankfully they will fail in their quest because the Living
God, from whom nothing is hidden, will not allow them to succeed. They
will fail because ultimately good will always prevail over evil.
They will fail because no matter what they do they cannot separate
us from the love of the Lord. They will fail because the God that we
serve is mighty and He is faithful to His own.
Permit me to digress. I have been reliably informed that my life
and liberty has become a major source of irritation and anger for the
maximum ruler.
I have been told that he hates me so much that he has issued orders
that his gestapo should come for me again and this time around to
torture me or even poison me whilst I am in their custody. Yet I count
it all as joy.
I laugh them all to scorn. If only they knew the God that I serve.
If only they could comprehend the nature of He who sent me and who works
through me.
If only they knew the source of their numerous problems and why
they are going through all that they are going through. If only they
knew why they are groping in hopelessness, dancing with failure and
hobbling in the dark.
If only they knew that you cannot fight against the Holy Spirit or
battle against the Lord. If only they knew the power of God and the
efficacy and power of the scripture that says "touch not my annointed
and do my prophets no harm".
As long as they seek to do nothing but pursue, demean,
misrepresent, destroy and kill the defenseless and innocent who have
done no wrong, the Angel of the Lord will continue to pursue them along a
dark and slippery path.
He will frustrate all their efforts, plagues shall torment them,
failure shall trail them and peace shall continue to elude them.
For the record the bottom line is as follows: yours truly would
rather die than be silenced or be compelled to bow down and worship Baal
and his accursed disciples.
As long as there is breath in me, no matter what, I will exercise
my God-given right of expression and I will fight and oppose the evil
soul that presides over the affairs of our nation because he has brought
nothing but suffering, hardship, pain, shame and tears to our people
and to our land.
He is the proverbial "darkness that seeks the darkness". Yet, in
the end, his own darkness will overwhelm him and the light and power of
the Living God will bring him down to his knees and remove him from his
exalted and dizzy heights.
And if I should fall before that time, posterity will be kind to me
and men will know that there once lived a man who spoke the bitter
truth about the powers that once were and who saw tomorrow.
Yet the beast remains as relentless as ever because, like Satan, his time is short. Worse still he has turned on his own.
It is no longer Goodluck Jonathan, his wife, his loyalists and leading members of the PDP that are being targeted anymore.
Now the erstwhile allies and friends of Baal's tiny cabal within
the ruling party itself have also been listed for "special attention"
and the torments of the evil eye in the next few months and years even
if they don't know it yet.
Such is the nature and way of Baal. He simply does not know when to
stop. Like Pharaoh his heart has been hardened unto destruction so
that, at the end of the day, when nemesis catches up with him, the name
of the Lord will be glorified.
Like Nebuchadnezzar, he will be brought to his knees and he will
crawl like a grass-eating beast in the forest until his eyes are opened
and he acknowledges the majesty and awesome power of the Lord God of
Hosts and the Ancient of Days.
Happy independence day.
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