JUSTICE’S INDEPENDENCE CHARGE
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I will rather live in a failed country and be a successful individual than vice versa. My father, so many years ago told me that failure is a choice. Also, in the pages of the few motivational books I have been opportune to read, ‘failure sets in when you stop trying.’ Some even say that success means to rise up many times more than you have fallen. But, on this Independence period, I, Ordinary Justice, have no intention to motivate or confuse you. I also have no intention to say some ambiguous or impracticable stuff. On the contrary I shall be dropping what I call FACTS.
In the 53rd year of this country and in the twenty something years I have trodden upon the soil of this our collectively called motherland, I see people wearing long faces as if they are bereaved. When I inquired, I found out that their headache is the failure of government rather the loss of a beloved one. Instead of rising up to the occasion and doing something to oust or transform the leadership, they gather for hours discussing and murmuring under the table about how the country and her leadership has failed. The end result of this long hours of unnecessary discussion and argument is that, they themselves end up in idleness. An expression I saw somewhere says, “An activist is not a person that discovers that the river is dirty but he who does something to clean it up.”
The thing is, ‘As we never chop belle full for this country, there is no need expending the little energy we have arguing about the failure of government.’ In your locality, just try and be the change that you crave for. Rather than discuss the failure of this country, do your best not to contribute to her already decaying image. Always resist the temptation of sitting in your small office, school or home arguing about the leadership of this nation and blablabla; that’s a waste of precious time. If you must complain or probably argue, find your way to Nigeria Info, 95.1FM Abuja, Radio Nigeria and so many other media houses in the country. This way, your words will fall on the right ears and your grievance, I suppose, will be properly noted. Or better still, you can write to the National assemble or even the Presidency like I’m writing right now. If you ask me, instead of wailing and complaining to everyone you see on the road, I will rather you take to the street and protest PEACEFULLY.
I used to tell people that until we decide as individuals not as a nation, to do the right things, we will forever continue going round and around. Until we stand out as individuals to say NO to corruption and other issues that has held us down, we will continue to sweat under air conditioner. ‘Forget’ Mr. President and do what you have got to do! Sincerely, sometimes I don’t even remember that I have a governor in my state until I hear his siren on the highway. However, I wake up each day and try as much as possible to do my best diligently. Nigeria may have failed in her fifty third year, but God forbid that you and I will fail. Let’s, to the best of our ability do our best every passing day. If fellow countrymen and women like the late Albert Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Chimamanda Adichie, Emeka Anyoku, Blessing Okagbare, Asa, Tuface and so many others could rise above the failures of this country, then why not you?
Nigeria may have failed woeful or however you want to put it, but I, ORDINARY JUSTICE (aka O.J) will NEVER fail! Of course, I have got a heavenly Father who does not fail.
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Writen By Justice E. Ebede
A WORD TO A SLEEPING GIANT
Giant!
Potential giant of my time
The tropics is your home
Yet you trouble your own
Leaving them to smile through hopelessness
While you abound in beauty and splendor
O latent giant of the tropics
Where do we go from here?
Giant!
Glorified giant of Africa
You thrive like a midget
Dancing a ballet
You make your home unbearable for her own
Chasing rat when your house is on fire
Your wards scatter all over the world
O! Latent giant of our time.
Giant!
Potential giant of my time
You make us go haywire
At your hostile nature we cringe
At the ALUU four I frown
That armless species are endangered
Latent giant of the tropics
Rise up from this oppression!
Giant!
Crawling giant of the tropics
I cry,
That the bodies of the innocent litter the streets
Although not like in Sudan or Middle East
But explosion rock in the crowd of many
Now I hear that familiar sound in a Mall in Kenya
Who shall save this latent giant of the tropics?
Giant!
Struggling giant of my time
You strive every now and then
But with muscle power is taken after a tussle
Yet they bamboozle and embezzle
When we have no morsel to swallow
Latent giant of the tropics
Arise and arrest imposters in power!
Giant!
As you celebrate at this time
Your five decades and three
In abundance you fare like sucking
When shall you grow up?
Shall you forever remain a baby?
O! Latent giant of the tropics.
Why mop when they mess up the labour of our past heroes?
Giant!
Potential giant of my time
Why should BH insurgency counter your stride?
Shall we continue to live in a country?
Where ASUU is not a footballer yet she strikes more than Messi
Where a political party is one but doubles in the face of crisis
Where we have black gold yet poor and deprived
Where our flag portrays fertility yet we know Mr. Hunger
Potential giant of the tropics
I shall continue to see hope in your hopelessness
I see a future in your marginalized youths
In your desolate streets,
Shall we continue to hope and pray
Even as I search like Diogenes the critic
I have no doubt you will rise tomorrow from the dust of today!
BY Ordinary JUSTICE aka O.J
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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE, NIGERIA!
Our problem is that we speak and advocate what we don’t do.
u dn’t need telling twice dat dis country NIGERIA needs agreat change from we, NIGERIANS.as a patriotic citizen of NIGERIA we need 2 b courageous 2 our leaders …………….ironically…….once bitten twice shy.
Are you one of them or what? Listen, we have too many leader who say ‘do this’ but they don’t. Infact I’m tired and want to be silent over this task of nation-building.
This is no Ordinary Justice. It’s extra ordinary
Within each of us is a hidden store of energy.Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life.within each of us is a hidden store of courage to give us the strength to face any challenge.within each of us is a hidden store of determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost”.my fellow Nigerian is high time we take our DESTINY in our hands.
Honestly u are a man by ur speech. U av added some atom of catarlyst 2 our sences. Thank u
Wow dats cool
Nice one! Tnkz 4 d write up. We must rise above d flaws of this country
Dis is wonderful sir. Nigeria needs this. Thank u so much.