Thread by @GbengaWemimo

Whenever i look at the drama in Nigeria
I am tempted often to draw parallels with the scripture
Ken Saro Wiwa reminds me of Sheba son of Bicri
Late President Yaradua reminds me of King Uzziah
Abacha reminds me of King Ahab
Babangida reminds me of King Herod
Late MKO reminds me

of King Zachariah
Chinua Achebe reminds me of Prophet Ahijah
Wole Soyinka reminds me of Prophet Jeremiah
All the politicians remind me of the priests of Samaria
The garb may not fit perfectly but human nature is the same regardless of culture, tradition, and language
The Lord

Jesus lamented that Jerusalem was a prophet killing city
And he was right but so also is Nigeria
The voice of a prophet is a voice of dissent
The one that took the side of Biafra died in exile
The one that tried his best to stop the war is still lamenting
A country that cannot be

helped by foreign ideologies
Just like Israel, a country that refused to thrive under the Babylonians, Medes and Persia, Mercedon, and Rome
A country with an identity that wouldn't conform to behavioural science and systems of rulership
The Parliamentary System of Government,

The military dictatorship of every type, the unitary system of government, the federal system of government, state creation, the interim system of government, and even the American system of government had all been practiced and all had failed
You can sow as many garbs as you

desire for the leper and play pretend
Clothes do not heal leprosy
Insincerity has no cure
Tribalism is still as rife on Twitter as it was in 1957
Corruption is woven into our core as a people, it is what we are as a people
It is in the blood, it is coded in our DNA
Wonderful!

Many pretend they are tired of it but they are not
You see you cannot overlook an evil within the citizenry and call out the same evil in the government
The people becomes the government
If you hold an anti-police brutality protest and overlook the internet fraudsters running

rampage
How sincere are you?
If you were offered incentives to make a hashtag trend and you were motivated by that incentive (Even if it is 10 Naira recharge card) to tweet and rave, you are part of the problem
True change does not come to any society except the people truly

desire it
Nehemiah and Ezra led a successful reformation in Israel because the people cooperated
Nehemiah recorded that he harassed those trading on the sabbath day (Not with guns and force)but with conscience and the fear of God and they stopped their ungodly ways
He was able to

lead a people who wanted to be led
In the last few months, I have come to see leadership beyond its theories
If the leader is sincere and the people around him or her are insincere, his or her sincerity will be for naught
If the people around a leader are sincere and the leader

is sincere, the leader's head will soon be hanging on a pike
An emir was deemed to be too progressive and dethroned
A governor was found to be too vocal and was prompt;y impeached
The youth had a protest and they were scared of sending representatives to the government because

they know the lure of the Ghana-must-go bags changing hands in the corridor of power
Insincerity is as evil and misinformation
How can a nation heal and grow when both sides resort to lies
A claimed massacre without victims
A claimed "no-massacre" with doctored evidence
Why is

everyone so scared of the truth?
Was it the inconvenience or the discomfort?
Abductors and Kidnappers being offered money in the name of amnesty would only breed more abductors and kidnappers
The system protects these evil mongers
If you catch an abductor and he is from the north

his people will quickly brand him a martyr and the same goes for the other tribes
We sit on a keg of gunpowder because of the unaddressed unrest we all refuse to acknowledge
Israel suffered from this same fate and it led to the dividing of the Kingdom after the death of King

Solomon
At a point, a people of one mind will flock together
It is inevitable, but that time is not now
Many of the youths are still being weaponized by the power brokers
Money is still the motivation for many and as long as money is the motivation the money bags will decide what

and where
It is not as hopeless as I once assumed it was
The rapture is close... Glory!
Jesus is coming soon and the injustice of the systems built on the knowledge gleaned from the tree of good and evil will be no more
It is only then that we can have true and sincere leadership

Until that time, the politicians will continue to politic, the traitors will continue to betray, oppressors will oppress, the agitators will continue to agitate, criminals will continue in their crime, hypocrisy will continue to thrive and lies will continue to sit on the throne

The one hope of humanity is the gospel
It is the only proven panacea to the ills of human nature and societal ills
It has transformed many societies wholly and it is still doing so one man at a time
If you are a believer, please preach the gospel
If you really love the Lord and

your neighbors, tell them about Jesus
Get them filled with the Holy Spirit and watch their lives change for the best
It is the only solution God gave to mankind and it will be the only solution that works from eternity to eternity
Those who shun it, will forever walk in darkness

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