Friday, February 27, 2015
Open Letter To The Incoming President By Azeez Rasheed Olawale
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A PAGE OPINED TO THE INCOMING PRESIDENT -AZEEZ RASHEED OLAWALE
"The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints." - Prof. Lumumba.
I keep reflecting on the Marxism classes we had during my undergraduate days in the university, where we were taught that class and class antagonism will continue in the society, unless the have-nots, the de-classed and the lumpen-proletariat stands up to liberate themselves from the shackles and manacles of the oppressors before they can be given freedom. I think we need a mind orientation that revolution we think is not possible looms around the corner, because our dear country has gone to sleep.
I believe what our leaders think is that the revolutionary status, and the confidence with which the masses have devoted themselves, has suffered a serious amazement. Don't forget the words of Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso who posited that "you cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness". Ha ha ha, leaders beware the followers are going gaga.
Urban violence might be the order of the day because the youths are closer to the people and understands how the political money is spent. Samuel P. Huntington argues that, as societies modernize, they become more complex and disordered. If the process of social modernization that produces this disorder is not matched by a process of political and institutional modernization, a process which produces political institutions capable of managing the stress of modernization, the result may be violence. Mr Incoming president, you must not sit on a keg of gun-powder.
The youths are not engaged in this modernized era where social security reimbursement ought to be filling the unemployment lacuna. Mr incoming president, you have visited the European countries and you know what is obtainable there. See the Fulgencio Batista regime in Cuba, that was cut-short by Che Guavera, Fidel Castro et' al in the 1950s, and the Arab spring will be a good illustration.
We are not ripe for a revolution but a mutation is imminent at least we want a prosperous economy devoid of hardship and suffering. Mr incoming president, the future and hope of the people lies in your capacity and capability of harnessing all necessary resources for the development of the Nigerian state.
That's my advice oooooo.
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