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By Isaiah Ekpenyong
The word "Nigeria is sitting on a gun powder" has severally been used by different people and sections of the country depending on the situation of things arround them to the point that I strongly now believe that there should be a redefinition of what gun powder is, and what sitting is, so as to actually know if there is still gun powder that we are actually sitting on.
Injustice in Nigeria has become a norm, a norm in the sense that when it favors you, you observe table manners, eat without talking and when it goes the other way round, what we will be hearing is, Nigeria is sitting on a cake of gun powder and I ask, when will it explode?
One funny thing Nigerians have not observed is that, our gun powders have been exploding. The impact of the explosion is felt differently depending on where you come from in Nigeria. When His Excellency, President Goodluck Jonathan was in power, the sentence Nigeria is sitting on a cake of gun powder was mostly used by our people from the north and other opposition elements all over the country. In fact, the sound of those words was as if Nigeria will collapse the next day. The gun powder exploded when they gang up against Jonathan to their advantage and the impact of the explosion of the gun powder felt by the South and mostly those that supported Jonathan. To the people ruling and benefiting from government now, there is no gun powder anywhere again as they observe table manners while eating.
To the opposition and those who really do not support the government of His Excellency Muhhamadu Buhari, what they see now is a very big gun powder that Nigeria is sitting on which may explode anytime soon if Buhari is not removed. That is Nigerian practical definition of what sitting on a gun powder is, a sad situation of a people living in a land filled with milk and honey but have deliberately impoverished themselves using religion and ethnicity.
IS NIGERIA ACTUALLY SITTING ON A CAKE OF GUN POWDER?
Nigeria is not actually sitting on just a cake of gun powder, we are sitting on the muzzle of a machine gun, I mean, the direction of an atomic bomb but very docile one that may never explode till thy kingdom comes. When people talk about cake of gun powder, they refer to the growing population of unemployed youths who may wake up one day in arms against the elites. While they call these youths gun powder, I call them docile machine guns and atomic bombs who will never explode. How can they explode when they do not know their left and right? How can they explode when they all wants to be leaders at the same time and end up being used as thugs? How can they explode when they have been so politically, religiously and ethnically divided? How can they explode when they do not support good youthful ideas, rather will duplicate it with no vision on how to sustain it?
Check out in our communities and our environments, most youths will never support any idea no matter how noble it is, if it did not come from them. They dare not support any other youth to succeed. To the youths of this generation, it is I and I alone. There are combination of things that makes a bomb to explode or a gun to fire. Even the gun powder we keep on talking about is a combination of sulphur, charcoal and other things. Its explosion requires a combine effort. Nigeria is sitting on a very docile atomic bomb, no wonder president Buhari knowingly or unknowingly called us 'Lazy Youths'.
Who will wake the Nigeria atomic bomb, the youths to its reslonsibility? Who will tell her that a bomb needs to explode? Who will let her know that begging is never a means of survival? Who will let her know that being a P.A to P.A on bag carrying is shameful? Who will remind her that she is the leader of tomorrow? Who will tell her that thuggery and criminality does not pay?
Nigeria youths, you are the atomic bomb Nigeria is sitting on, will you explode?
Ekpenyong Isaiah,
Commander, Infantry Pen Battallion
isacool4good@yahoo.com
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