RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA : YOUR THOUGHTS AND MINE
By Taye Olaniyi
The geography of the world as the living God has made it from time immemorial and in eons of time cannot be altered for saints, nor sinners.
We all must struggle and wriggle in its configurations because no matter the depth of our beliefs and the none of it, the sun, moon, stars, and what have you shall remain luminaries up above us neither would the mineral resources in layers of earth’s crust be in juxtaposition with lights of the spheres above.
However, the God that owns the heavens equally possesses absolutely the land and all therein.
In possession, humans have tried to draw and redraw the geography of the world, their world to suit fancies, interests, and vogues to both general benefits as well as to the embezzlement by gluttons who daily make our world in peril.
Perilous cartography of the world has put places and humans in convergence and conflicts and where interventions do come, permanent peace rarely persists as much as scars of unhappiness.
The geography of the world as once existed, puts the powerful building empires while the weak ones are vassals.
Nigeria has had its shares as a colony of Great Britain which when under colonial power had previous kingdoms and empires configured and calibrated to suit the British political and economic interests.
At the inception of independence, three regional sets became the fulcrum of mostly agricultural and slight industrial advancements.
Later, civil war ensued and the cadastral map of Nigeria kept changing according to who owned what and who did not according to the dictates of places, peoples, and politics.
From three regions, states came into being yet, for one reason or the other agitations of seperatedness seem more raring heads than unity in unitedness of resources and peoples under the same auspices of God’s ordained geographical part in His eternal creation.
Who agitates, why, how, and what are these agitations all about, or who benefits from them?
Agitations the world over are a restructuring of thoughts, and alignment of people of like minds but solely beneficial to few at the expense of very numerous dregs on whose heads the coconut of agitations is broken.
Who says the cadastral map of Nigeria should not be re-examined but then how serious-minded and without the padding elements are we, our so-called representatives, and sedating senators approaching it to the benefit of all and sundry. ?
We ask can the present crop of boko haramist agitators, the militants both sane and insane truly avenge in revenge without destroying the relevance of God in works of His hands?
By the way, who created what is created for all Nigerians to explore, use, and deploy for general advantages?
Restructuring Nigeria for me is good, restructuring Nigerians better and restructuring our hearts, minds, and souls, our thoughts, words, and actions is best if and when in appreciation of the works of our Creator who in His divine immensity bestow us in His glory but over which we are brutishly inglorious because of our greed, selfishness, and fiendishness.
Should we restructure Nigeria? Why not if anchored on pure aspirations by aspirants of its would-be dividends and provided it would not in the adage that usually unmasks the unfaithfulness of average Nigerians to noble courses, ” Every human being is a born agitator, but give him a pot of soup and he forgets his agitations.”
To restructure or not restructure Nigeria?
Time will Tell, Time will always Tell.
*Taye Olaniyi is a Lagos – based public analyst and Public Relation Practitioner *
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