Nigeria: Time for action

THeRE are different political parties in the country accommodating politicians with the same habits. It is now obvious that lies, selfishness, corruption, heartlessness and other impious practices are the notorious characteristics of the politicians in the country. I did my research and findings have proven that it is a tradition and culture for our political leaders to be careless about any issue of development that could touch positively, the lives of the common people in the nation. My research findings have shown that our political leaders are always ready to do anything that can benefit their lives, and the lives of their families and their friends. The research also revealed that in the process of working on how to actualize their selfish plans, they can crush any human who seems to be standing in their way. If you want to stop them from taking public funds, they can crush you. If you want to expose them for enriching themselves with public funds, they can as well crush you. If you even cough when they are doing the act, you can be crushed. If you see them doing it, that is even enough reason to crush you. If you dare question them, they will not think twice before crushing you.

The late Dele Giwa was crushed when he wanted to expose one of them. Fela Anikulapo Kuti, a musician, was also crushed for exposing some of them in his songs. Many journalists and human right activists were equally crushed for standing in their way. Currently, a man called Ahmed Isa, popularly known as Ordinary President, is undergoing torture of different kinds by these same people because of the fact that he is standing firmly in their way. Isa is an investigative journalist and a radio presenter on Love Fm, 104.5 , Abuja.

They have said everything and don’t know what to tell us again. Therefore, they keep repeating the same lies we were told in previous years. Nothing new is coming from their mouths; there is nothing different about them. They are still politicians, they are still indifferent, they are still corrupt, they are still selfish, they are still story tellers, they are still heartless, they are still vampires that suck our blood, make us dry and die. They are still diverting public funds meant for the execution of projects in our country for their narcissistic reasons. They are still using us as manure to grow. However, they are now thinking on how to package other convincing lies that can woo us to vote for them again in the next elections, they are holding meetings and making consultations that could help them actualize their plan of remaining in power and coming into power in the next elections. That’s why we see them cross carpeting from one party to another and from another party to another party. In whose interest are they doing all that? For their selfish interests.

We have to let them know that we know their usual plans; we have to let them know that they are responsible for the killings of the innocent people by the Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram and political louts. They should also know that they are responsible for the present economic recession, hunger, poverty, armed robbery, kidnapping and the drastic increase in prostitution across the country. We have known everything about them now; we are also meeting and consulting keenly on how to handle them, we will no longer tolerate their excesses. We are many but they are few, we will start deciding what happen and what doesn’t happen. We are not going to be casualties of any war any more, we are going to replace them, let them take our positions and feel the pains we are experiencing now.

We are going to do everything possible to pull them down, we will fight for our future and the future of our younger ones, we are not going to sit back and watch any longer. We are going to be engaged and influence actions and decisions that could develop us and our society. It will no longer be a business as usual, we are going to confront threats, fears and even death. Enough is enough. We are no ready for them.

• Terwase lives in Mpape, Abuja.