The ripples and reproaches to a dying breed of puppy has been the haphazard alterations of the genetically modified biochemistry.
It’s an undulating oscillation imposed on the steady value of the puppy with a crazy cracks in the wall of the puppy in denial of its right to life, as the reproach is a blemish resulting from a break without separating the parts.
The fractured wall is symbolic of Kogi State government today while the innocent puppy is symbolic of her citizenry.
Kogi State today is one of the most notorious states in terms of governance and service delivery taking into cognizance the hew and cry about non payments of salaries, pensions and gratuities to her workforce despite monthly allocation,bailout fund’s and Paris club tranche that was released by the federal government for the same purpose.
There is brazen cracks in the wall as some of the flagged off road projects were either at the embryonic stages or were outrightly moribund at the moment without hope for revival considering the body language of the white lion in the Lugard House Lokoja and his co-travellers.
The onus lies in the hands of the citizens whose sovereignty has been abused and ridiculously impugned with abysmal attacks against their inalienable rights to good living.
But, here we are a compromised society with appeasement syndrome to lurk around in deafening silence and unacceptable complacency.
Kogi East is worst off because of her fragile economic environment and also her population upsurge over and above the West and Central senatorial Districts.
It’s a tale of woes despite being the giant eagle in the state as the level of poverty has grown to unacceptable geometrical proportions with the attendant increase in crimes and unnecessary deaths arising from chronic hunger and diseases.
I think we need to re-calibrate the State political compass system in order to set up a standard that can mitigate the unmitigated political arrogance and impunity that has given birth to the deep rooted cracks in the wall that is piercingly suffocating our people.
The time is now if we must reconcile the political equivalent to the nitty gritty of the moral compass system cum economic questions that is begging for answers at the moment.
It is an appalling political paradox as there is no known justifiable allusion to the rupturing and dwindling political equations of the State as God has been so faithful to the cause of our land but the supposed leaders have veered off the radar of political prominence which is why we must act now to be able to address the remediation and resuscitation process that will usher in total restoration.
Let the sleeping giant eagle Wake up from her sluggard otiose to be able to return to the radar of political prominence in Kogi political equations even as the odds still favour her.
Our youths must be ready to take up leadership responsibility as opposed to thuggocratic disposition and the inclination for social vices.
Arise today oh ye youths of our land,gird your loins and take up the cross for the leadership mantle is UPON you!
The enemy of our land has beaten the drum of political exclusion,moral decadence and social retardation,economic shambles and societal imbalance.
We are the youth, the present and future glory of our land,and if this is anything to go by,considering the propensity and cravings for social justice then,we must stand tall in this moment of silence occasioned by the travail from bad governance and maladministration.
The enemy of the State crept into the system through the cracked and fractured wall.
We must reposition this wall and the political landscape through deliberate efforts to ensure political inclusion that is people oriented and driven by sense of true service to our people.
We have come to the cross road where the thought of return become inconsequential.
Going forward,it is said that when injustice becomes law resistance inevitably becomes a duty for all.
Injustice has taken its roots from the Lugard House Lokoja to the State House of Assembly,and to all the temple of Justice across the State where the highest bidder carries the day.
The psyche and conscientiousness of our people has been infiltrated by naked and blatant lies,hoodwinked and bamboozled by corrosive empty promises,eroded and trampled upon by mimetic desire for worldly possessions and adversely affected or inundated with tomorrow”go better symptomatocracy syndrome”
This can only stop if we are determine to resist the inherent injustice in the system today through active and full participation in the act of governance in an attempt to recover the fractured wall.
– Ojoachele Akor Felix
DG, Center For Social Justice And National Integration,
Lagos State.
