Bells of Revolution Ringing Faster In Nigeria

Bells of Revolution Ringing Faster In Nigeria

By Ibrahim Lamin

[[A Heartbreaking Audio which Our Governments, Northern Elites and Billionaires Must Consider]]

AREWA AGENDA – The Twin Precious Audio Clips (4 and 3:56 Minutes) that kept Trending these Days, Depicting a Phone Conversation between an Anonymous “Duped Man” and his “Anjanu Dupers” (Pretending as Jinns with Mimic Skills) is a Real “Thriller” that ought to Change the Mindset of Millions of Our People if Carefully Considered for Potential Objectivity in Human Developmental Projects by the Federal Government, States and Billionaire Philanthropists across the Country.

The Late African Elder Statesman and Freedom Fighter, President Nelson Mandela was said (Quoting him not Verbatim) that,

“There is Nothing like Poverty, Nothing like Hunger, Famine and Insignificant Natural Disasters that will be Said to have Ravaged Mankind as of Today. In fact Many of what is Obtained of Human Catastrophes from Diseases to Poverty in this Century is Nothing but Artificially Man-Made Cataclysm ….”

As far as the Audio Conversation of these Individuals is Concerned, there is no Way Our Youths, Particularly the (Northerners), those Thousands (or even Millions) of Graduates lingering “About and Around” would ever be Convinced for what is Happening to the Economy of the Country, the Region and the Whole World, nor Shall they ever Give Excuses to Our Governments (Federal, States and Local) over the Unjustified Negligence of the Authorities Concern towards Servicing them for so Many Years. Either the So-called Most Pronounced Global Recession can the Government “Clearly Define” to these Youths to Exonerate themselves from Blames, or Concretely Accord a Complex Translation of Why the “Only Few” in Abuja and across the Several State Capitals are the Enjoying a Sort of a “Paradise Lifestyle” to the Detriment of Millions of Northern Nigerian Families. Why should that be, why Should Continue, and Why Shall the Region Continue to Remain Silent?

Northern Nigerian’s Predicament

The Two Audio was of no other Persons but of those Vibrantly Brilliant Hausa-Fulāni Youths, University Graduates for that Unfortunate Matter who out of “Hunger” because they Couldn’t Control it “Pangs” but to Revolt against it with a Heavily Vigorous “Repulsive Duping Business” which they were Forced into as a Result of the “Bureaucratic Criminality” Operating as a System of Governance, Enshrined and Engraved into Our “Supreme Constitution”  which remained Unchangeable and Unchallenged for Decades in The “Salary Structure” of Certain Classes and Categories of Persons (for instance the Legislative Arm of Our Government, the NNPC Scale and Many others). Thus, why Should this Feudalism Sort of Functional Governance be Allowed to Continue?

Corruption, Corrupt Practices of the Few Opportunists

People, especially in Northern Nigeria have Naturally been given Enough and So Many “Eyes” to See what was going Around them. The Poor, the Pauper, the Indigenous Destitute and in fact the Society as a Whole have been Watching Closely for Ages on how their “Bloods” were Continuously being Sucked by Blood-Suckers in both the Public and Private Sectors, who Enjoyed as we Said earlier, a Sort of a “Paradise Lifestyle” on the Same Soil with these Oppressed People, living within their Midst as “Official Parasites”.

The way Government Officials Enrich themselves, Friends and their Families is Quite Alarming. It could have Viably been Overlooked if they Procure the “Big Money” through Legitimate Means, but Unfortunately the Way they Behave, both before and after they Make it to where they are will Dislocate the Thought and Psychology of a Sensible Human Being. As Mrs. Sarah Jibrīl Proclaimed it, these kind of People are Mentally Abnormal, thence they behave Quite Abnormally Once there are Few Million Naira (or Dollars) in their Bank Accounts. They Automatically lose Normalcy and Immediately Jump into “Bestiary Modes”, Forgetting Completely that there are in Existence Such Human Beings who are in Distress, who are Hungry, who are Sick, who don’t have Proper Shelter to Live Under,  who don’t go to School, who Can’t Move from Village to Village because of Poor Road-links.

A Retired Northern Elite, a very Simple Local Elder use to Say in Tearful Sorrow;

“I Really Fear the Very Day when the Common Nigerian, especially in the North, will Wake up to Realise on that Day what Government and Governance is all about, who will to Come to Understand the True Picture of The Lifestyle of Top Government Officials; Indeed i Fear that Very Day, because Once it Comes, not a Single Public Servant will Survive it…. Nothing will Reign but Anarchy. Many will Perish and Nothing will Persist but Insecurity. And Unfortunately All these will happen because we have allowed Corruption to Prevail Over Simple Social Justice ….”

If you can’t give them your luxuries, protect them on what they see and have as their own legitimate luxuries

We have Written, Spoken and Argued for so long, and we Shall Continue doing that Exactly until we are Finally Back to Our Original Source, the Very “Soil, Dust and Muddy Sands” we were Created from; The Grave where that Very House that we Shall all Return and be Domiciled there forever. We have Said it, that the Ordinary Citizen, Native and Commoner in Northern Nigeria (Dan-Arēwa) was not after the Monies, Flashy Cars, Private Jets, Mansions, Villas or Bungalows, Golds and Diamonds of that Top Government Official in Abuja’s Maitama, Lagos’s Ikoyi, Kaduna’s Sultān Road or Kano’s Nasarāwa and Maiduguri’s GRA. In short what the “Dan-Arēwa” was all along Struggling to Achieve in life was Nothing other than his Farm to Grow Something for his Own Food, for his Family and Relatives (Give Out the Due Arms in Zakāt), Sell Little Amount of his Gained Grains to buy some Beef Occasionally, Buy Some Cosmetics (by those who Seldom go to the City), Make their Stew Red with ingredients, Salts, Cubes and Purchase few Clothes (for Annual Festivities), Clear the Fields for the Coming Season, Rare his Cattle for the Yoruba-Man, Fish and Smoke them for the Ibo-Man’s Consumption and if Possible Send his Little Children to Nearby Schools and Maintain Little Pocket-Money for Eventualities (Childbirth, Local Medicare and Miscellenious). Now these are the Real “Way-of-Life” of Millions of Northerners for Ages. They Fancy City Life not because of its “Cruel and Crude Luxury”, they came into the City rather to Learn and then go back and Lead.

The Poor Arēwa Man has the Same Mentality as the “Bedouin”, the Arab Villager of the 30s (Precisely before the Creation of the Modern State of Israel) who don’t See Modernity as a Powerful Criminal Trend that Can’t influence him and Change his Life. That was why The Iconic “King Faisal” stood against the Excesses of the United States at a Time when he was Threatened by Evil Genius, the Great Washington Thinker, Zionist Advocate, Secretary “Henry Kissinger”. King Faisal rebuked him and said;

“We don’t Care what Our Oil Wells Carry. Let Everything Remain Underneath Earth as long as we do Maintain, Preserve and Practice our Ancestral Values, Ethics  and Cultural Morals. Our Dates from Our Fields and Milks from Our Camel Suffices Us forever ….”

Today, the Very Children Shehu “Usmān Dan-Fõdio and Sheikh Muhammad Al-Amīn El-Kānimi” (those very Clans and Peoples) they left Three Centuries ago, who were in those Days Fully Decorated with Religious Mannerisms, Perfectly Educated with Worldly and Spiritual Knowledge, Armed with Courageous Powers to Defeat their Enemies who Could be after them, aiming towards Destruction of their Principles and Ideas; These Very Children are now in the Shoes of the Misguided People who behave as if Copying the “Rastafarian Model” of those who Ignorantly became Blind-Followers of worshipping the Ethiopian Emperor, “Hailey Selassie” as their God after being Addicted from the Effects of the Marijuana. Today Our People are almost “Worshippers” of the American and the Western Values. They lost Everything to the extent that  they don’t seem to Believe that we have Our own “Indigenous Civilisation” Carrying in it even the very Modernity we Seemed to be Dazzled by in the “Technological Advancement” of those Wicked and Inhuman Democracies.

The Butcherings and Slaughtering in Bõko Harām’s North-East, Killings in Armed Banditry and Kidnappings in North-West and Central, Cattle Rustling in almost everywhere in the Region, Communal and Religious Violence all over and across Northern Nigeria, with Farmers and Peasants deprived from Reaching their Farms, and if they do, they don’t Return Home.

Abuja and all those Concern in Government up there Must Note that, if You don’t Dash the Oppressed Northerner Out or Share at least a Meager Amount of Your Luxuries, then You Must Remember that its his Constitutional Right to Protect for him, his Life and Property with the Powers Vested upon You by the Laws of the Land. If the Heavily Strong Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will Fail in that Very Simplest Job of Providing the Necessary “Security Services” that Will Accord the Common Nigerian Secured Free Movement to all the Nooks and Corners of the Country,  from Maiduguri to Onitsha, Badagry to Yola, Nguru to Benin, then for Sure the Country is Definitely at the Bridge of Total Collapse.

Now the Twin Audio Conversation between those “Naive Dupers” and their Awaken Victim even if we Consider it to be a “Fictional Story”, it for Surety Carries Reality of What is Currently Operating on Our Blessed and Beloved Fatherland.

In fact the Styles adopted by these “Poor Dupers” was More and Most Cleaner than going into that Somewhat Lucrative Kidnapping Business which Often Consumes Life of Innocent Poor Citizens.

Yes, as Many in Northern Nigeria were of the Belief that had it been the Wife, Son or Daughter of a Serving General, a Minister, a Governor, an Influential Senator, a Billionaire or those Presidential Aides been the Kidnapped Victims in the Custody of those Bõko Harām Vagabond or those Fulāni Chaps who took up AK-47 as Toys, Definitely Life Could have Entirely been Different in the Devastated North for Years to Come.

If these Trends were to Continue Under a Stable Government, Definitely the Predictions of that Retired Public Servant about the Harbinger of True “Revolution” is Nigh, because the Drums of War are Beginning to Beat Vigorously, Echoing within the Walls of Northern Nigeria and Beyond under Religious Hate Speeches Mongers Calling on Northerners to Defend themselves against Possible Attacks and Arm themselves with “Guns”, or those Separatists Movements Clamouring for Cessation and the Activities of So Many Unscrupulous Politicians trying to Tear the Federation Apart because their Personal Selfish Interest which keeps growing Day-by-Day.

Today the Shooting Spree of those Armed Bandit/Kidnappers has Reached “Minjibir Township”, a Proximity almost into the Heart of Kano.

The Pushing of the Poor Bawan-Allāh Arēwa Man against Unending Edges of those Mysterious Walls is Getting Out of Hand; And the awaited Fear is that, at the End _”Even a Worm will Turn”,_ and at that Very Point will be the Beginning where the Ring-Bells and Drum-Beats of Real Revolution will Get on the Way.

How will a New Nigeria Look Under Anarchy? Only The Almighty Allah (SWT) knows!

“Yā Allah Dakai Kadai Muka Dõgara, Yā Allah Ka Kāwo Mana Dauki da Sauki Albarkacin Manzon Rahama (SAW); Allah Ga Ka, Ga Su, Domin Lā Haula Walā Quwwata Illä Bika daga Irin Wannan Hāli da Muke Ciki Yā Rabbal-‘Ālamīn ….”

Merry Christmas to All The Christians who Worship, Serve & Fear One God

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