As a classroom instructor of language, I hitherto maintained to my students that the English sentence ‘Musa are a boy’ which is grammatically incorrect does not in a sense make the words that formed the sentence wrong. If properly used, could give a correct sentence thus ‘Musa and John are boys’.

The analogy above is simple, the words in themselves are not wrong but what they form and represent is wrong. And I dare to say, this is not just a mere conjecture.

Sad enough, the lost of self to horrible politicians and the lost of self value and potentials amongst our youths today is pathetic.

The young folks have chosen to honor the paths that seek to shortchanged and subdue their God given potentials of leadership. They seek to be known as praise singers to politicians rather than charting a better paths for themselves.

Their minds have been remodeled to believe that leadership is and can only be trusted in the hands of the few self acclaimed political demigods who holds the threshold to power that be.

They believed that their success and purpose in life is predicated on their lives written scripts authored by the politicians.

They play the drums of shame, sing the melody of shame, dance the steps of shame celebrating shameful politicians.

The hallmark of their dreams and aspirations is allowed to drawn in the abyss of a dark age where freedom and liberty have no place.

The rotten times Nigeria as a sovereign state is sailing through is enough to ignite true sense of patriotism amongst the young folks that will eventually spark up a revolution but the youths have chosen to be used as thugs by politicians.

A politician in my purview is the most less productive citizen in a nation; the sector he manned add nothing to the economic growth of a nation. A politician only aspire to steer over the finished resources of a nation put together by the proles. The make the laws and allocate bogus and humongous salary structures to themselves.

It must be stated here that, the politicians of today are of different climes in motives with iconic nationalists like Nnamdi Azikwe, Shehu Shagari, Owolowo etc.

In today’s society, frantically speaking,

• A farmer who work the fields for hours to feed the community has a direct impact to the nation and more productive than the politician who seek to loot the treasure.
• A teacher who teaches five lessons periods a day to shape the destiny of the students into becoming useful citizens is more productive than a politician.
• A vulcanizer who work by the road side meeting the needs of citizens with deflated tiers is more productive than a Nigerian politician.

So why would I give myself to be used by this same crusaders of doom? American Patrick Henry says: Give me liberty or give me death! And I align to this though our climes of struggle differs. We must not continue to patronize the routes that lead us to the abyss of a dark age where our fundamental freedom to expression, rights to good governance, liberty to hold government responsible, equality to distribution of national resources and equity anchored on federal character is denied.

Lohnanlamtur

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