Drawing Parallels

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
Bola Ige reminds me of Abner
Obasanjo reminds me of Mannasseh
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, 
Macedon, 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 become 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 promptly 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