SPECIAL INDEPENDENCE CLIP Nigeria: My Mother, My Nation

It’s funny maybe strange, unbelievable to the human ears but it’s my story, my experience and its true. I have to be one of those few very human being who lived the better part of his adulthood without having the luxurious opportunity to spend one full day under the same roof with Mama, and that made me and my mother, familiar strangers, because while alive every few minutes we meant, there was always room for argument and disagreement, she wasted no her time, anytime we meet to dispense me from her side, she always hands me a message of distrust laced with anger, I later came to understand why it is was so, that stranger behaviours to me: my mother, anytime she see me, I simply make her recall all the bad experiences she had while with my father getting to know this.

I simply one day told her not put me in the forefront of her annoyance with my father because I did not ask to come through them, nor a major player in their short lived relationships. Infact she wouldn’t want to see me and at the same time she would not allow any of her relations come near me or me go near them this gave me a cold feeling towards her. But like the saving goes blood is thicker than water. These words made meaning to when my mother died. While she was in her pangs of death, I was feeling it where I was in truth that same night after she past on she came to me and in death she made peace with me: I must say felt at peace with myself from that day on. It goes to remind me of one song her people used to sing, that mother will always be mother her situation, position or circumstances not withstanding. She could be mentally unstable, but the gospel truth is mother will always be a mother.

Using my mother’s narrative here as an introduction into my discussion about Nigeria I find it practically realistic because our Nigeria as a nation is a mother to every citizen both at home or in Diaspora, so whatsoever is being said about our nation, Nigeria from any stand point have either negative or positive effect on us as Nigerians at home or abroad. You can’t wave it off!

Honestly speaking, there’s being actually very impressive impression more negative than positive must confess. Nigeria is a very fraudulent nation made of local and international 419, Nigeria is a nation of thieving, greedy, power hungry leaders who have no iota of thought for their citizens when they have stepped into their position of power; in fact would be leaders remember their people before election not after sour point, but to a large extent have Nigeria they say is the giant of Africa, but truly we are not measuring up to nor living up to that name, people now call us an elephant standing on mosquito legs.

Nigeria just big for nothing; why is it so because people feel that for a nation to be call truly great, she should be able to provide some basic human needs like, food, light, portable drinking water, good motorable road, basic standard education, possibly free or subsidized by government to a large extent, I must say that some of those are lacking and even if available, epic epileptically supplied.”

Nigeria remains our home our motherland all we need to do now in our growing maturity after independence is to put all hands on deck and find a way forward, live a life of selfless services, let our leaders turn from being bosses to true public servants and as citizens of this nation. Nigeria at home or abroad should start now to come to terms with the fact that though tribe and tongue may differ we should and must stand in true and sincere brotherhood exhibiting love for one another that’s the hall mark of real nationhood.

The United State of America for example, the average American have a very strong value for anything American, their country is the pivot on which their whole life revolves, so they virtually live, eat, and act American, the basic principle of living there is hinged on the simple but powerful statement made years ago by one of their foremost president John F. Kennedy “think not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country”. Although he was assassinated but his word never fail to be the ground void, its being alive and working in almost all Americans life, don’t forget me wrong but they are most wonderful when it come to being patriotic.

Nigeria is Fifty-Three and growing older, I wish to through this article pled to every Nigeria here or abroad to have a change of heart so that we can move our nation forward economically, Socially Politically and much more, like said before no matter how bad a mother is, Don’t be deceived she cannot be replace by another mother, no matter how good and kind a foster or step mother is, a biological mother remains a biological mother Nigeria our motherland, just this one Nigeria, even if you feel bad about your mother, and then run away to another to nationalize deep in your conscience you know it, you are still flesh and blood a Nigeria. You can run and run but you can’t run away from yourself. There is no place like home.

For once think Nigeria, Live Nigeria and make Nigeria a nation to be proud of, so that of a truth the world at large will now get convinced that we Nigeria are truly one of the happiest people on planet, earth.