Friday, March 19, 2010

A Corpse For Joint Burial (Part 2)

To pray and protest against kidnapping and assassination in Akwa Ibom State of recent has become daily routine, and if God has not gone to bed, by now the crime would have faded to obscurity. But it is either God is sleeping or unable to answer our prayers on these issues. It can equally be that the clergies: the bishops, pastors, Revs, Arc Bishops, etc conducting these prayers are doing so to register their presence with government because most of them cannot preach against this menace and the atrocities, the corruptions, the decay and calamities of these politicians, especially when one of such dark-glassed-car-going, mobile-police-secured politicians is in their congregations.

This is how we ended when space could not accommodate us. Each day we are told by whatever means that the atrocities we are witnessing in Akwa Ibom State are politically motivated, watered and grown to fruition because of infiltration of our polity with men of dubious, I mean dubious character. At the open we lack the courage to call them to order for a ceasefire.

They brag of commanding every strength and having the connection you may not imagine. We can only be intimidated but not inwardly intimated to cap their follies, thus giving them the air to torment us. As we join Pastor Ime Ime Jerome to dance round Uyo in protest against this kidnapping and mannapping, we must advise the churches to shift emphasis from wealth creation, prosperity and mass acquisition of wealth to value creation and high level morality to nip every other nuisance that can brew from morality and value disconnect at bud.

These days, Pastor hardly preach against immorality evidence in improper dressing among women and youths in our society. They concentrate so much on wealth creation, even while wealth creation is not evil, the drive to amass it when the time is not right can lead many into temptation vis-a-vis, thuggery and cultism. A cultic evaded society may witness increase in kidnapping and cold blood murder as is the case in Akwa Ibom of recent. A we open the coven, we must not forget to nail all these and jointly bury them for eternity. Back to our orthodox religious practices, a careful analysis of even dance steps in churches today reveal an invitation for sexual spree and this is often than not dismissed with as glee by men of God in charge in the pretext that in the presence of God there is fullness of joy; and when we record high incidences of rape, unwanted pregnancy, we turn for who to blame. When I watched the skimpy, flimsy dressing, the Awilo and chest-beating dance steps by youths of that protest, I felt we need more of the works than the show. If our Pastors can beef up their spiritual assignment far from what is obtained now, a little prayer from here can do the magic.
Just as we have taken our search light, the house of worship, our lawmaking arm - our legislators must equally be called to order. In my estimation, they have left their primary assignment, a duty they vowed to do during their electioneering campaigns to other aspects that were never mentioned in the chats. They have made themselves tinkling-symbals for the second term ambition of his excellency to the detriment of the roles expected of them. If they can sponsor investigations into allegation of cultic involvement by high ranking individuals in the society, a little prayer again can do the magic. All the while we have had honourable members who sit at our legislative chamber to fill their pockets. They use the proceed of our oil money to run campaign for a so called continuity at the detriment of their legislative assignment.

I laugh along side other minds when I see a legislator on TV screen doing nothing, saying nothing other than the continuity of Chief Godswill Akpabio beyond 2011 and 2015. I am not against Governor Godswill Akpabio's continuity but I honestly don't think that our lawmakers should become his campaign boys. I don't think they should openly pledge allegiance to the governor as this will directly mean they will overlook his excesses where they are recorded, a key function of their calling as legislators.

These lawmakers hardly talk about child trafficking, poverty reduction, child labour among other things hunting us. This eye service, insincerity and negligence of duty is a corpse we must jointly buriy with the coffin drove around town by Pastor Ime Ime Jerome.

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