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‘Hell is empty, all the devils are here’. – Ariel in the Tempest.
The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is always an interesting case study about the grace of God.
It is said in the Bible that the men of Sodom were not just wicked and sinners before the Lord, but they were exceedingly so.
Due to their sins, God wanted to destroy the cities. Abraham then tried to plead for the people.
Abraham asked God that if He could find fifty righteous people in the land, would He still destroy the land? God said if fifty people were righteous, He would not.
Apparently, Abraham couldn’t find fifty!
He now went down to forty five. God said if He could find forty five people, He wouldn’t.
Forty?
Thirty?
Twenty?
Ten?
They could not even find ten righteous men in the city.
But one terrible thing was that the people Abraham was begging for were not in anyway repentant.
Two angels went to the city in the evening. Lot, Abraham’s nephew tried to take care of them. He fed them and arranged for them to sleep in his house.
Before long, the men of the city came and they asked Lot for the angels.
Why?
They wanted to sodomise them!
Lot was so protective of his guests that he offered his two virgin daughters to them.They were adamant in their refusal.
The angels even wanted to save Lot’s sons in law but they refused.
God eventually rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah.
When one compares the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah with that of Nigeria, we will see that we are only enjoying God’s grace.
If there is any country that’s truly richly blessed, it’s Nigeria. But are the poorest of the people feeling the blessings?
No!
For where? Even the middle class is groaning.
However, it’s like the people are enjoying the criminal act of being raped. If not, how can people we have voted into power be oppressing us?
Some months ago, monies in their billions were being found in public places. Now, a deafening silence has crept over the found monies.
Government will demand for taxes and people will pay. What are the proceeds of the tax being used for?
Nobody would talk. Indeed, we as a people are so resilient that it is even more than mumu. It’s like our rulers have given us drugs to make us docile.
Check out the payment of salaries and allowances. So many states are owing several months’ salaries. If I were a civil servant, non payment of my salaries is enough reason for me not to go to work.
But no, if you ask them, they’ll say they’re managing. I don’t know how they are.
It boils down to the fact that so many sharp practices are taking place in our ministries and other public organisations.
The sheer number of the jobless should be alarming in saner climes. However, nothing shocks a Nigerian.
Our hospitals like it was said when General Buhari was coming to power in 1984, are mere consulting centers. I think they should even be worse now.
This is a society where anything goes. I wonder if it would not be necessary to invite the British to come and recolonise us.
It is in our society that people will be abducted to make rituals. It is in this society that kidnappers will be making billions.
And we are claiming we are in recession. Pray, where are they getting the ransom monies?
How foolish can we be? When we fight for our townsman to be in a position of influence, how does it make us advance in the course of life. Agreed that it does, will in not be at an infinitesimal rate when compared to their immediate families?
A state government intends celebrating the Sallah in about twenty different locations. Isn’t it great?
After the Sallah, when the expenditure is calculated, I know a lot of money would have been spent. Is there no better way of spending government money than this act of frivolous spending?
Yet, some people are there without jobs. Some are in need of food. Some need drugs for some life threatening ailments.
Above all, some people who were dispossessed of their places of abode by the same government had to go to court before they could get a reprieve. If the court had not ruled in their favour, they would have become permanently dispossessed of their homes.
By the way, it is one thing for the court to do its job, it’s another thing for the executive to carry out the court’s ruling.
Promptly too!
What am I even saying, has anybody come to complain to me?
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