Naturally, the body of the water is in the degrees and this ranges from that of an ocean to that of a river and that of a well. However, flood can also be described as a collection of water but clearly different from the earlier mention for the simple fact that it is a natural occurrence and seasonal, and short live, not being able to stand the test of time. It is not worthy that the ocean is characteristically unsettled and turbulent, nevertheless humans still navigate through it to get to their desired destinations. As for the river, it is less turbulent when compared to the ocean, nevertheless it can pose a danger to a victim who jumps or falls into it lacking the capacity to swim. One notable difference between an ocean and river is that of the size and the fact that the weather conditions that impact negatively on waters normally have less effect on the ocean when compared with a river. It is not out of place to experience a decrease in the volume of the water in a river due to the impact of the weather condition but this situation does not apply to the size of the water in an ocean. The water in a well is also in the degrees going by how deep the well is and also depending on the location and proximity of the well to the source of water supply to it. It is insanity to expect that the weather condition that impacts negatively on the well water to have the same effect on a river let alone an ocean.
Coming to terms with the reality we have in our hands relative to the stipulation of the Nigerian constitution that the security and the welfare of the citizens should be the primary responsibility of the government, the question that agitates the minds of Nigerians is about why the constitution which supposedly is a product of the citizens, that is, Nigerians, should in the first place contemplate the idea of a secure and a prosperous society where the probability of realizing such is incomprehensible and unattainable. Understandably, the world was not created by God to be inhabitable by humans and this can be seen from the historical Garden of Eden where it was designed for a peace and serene life until trouble came in. This clearly supports the fact that there is no trouble anywhere without a troubler and man is troubler of man because man is man because of others and alone man is an animal.
Democracy which is believe to be the government of the people by the people and for the people is gradually having it values eroded and diminishing in its primary assignment of giving it dividend to it adherence, and what is democracy without dividend, suffice to say that it is worse than autocracy. Wherever the people are agonizing and deprived of their inalienable right to live in a secure environment and enjoyed the natural endowments, you will always find the major causative factor as man which by extensions are the leaders. The truth that cannot be controverted is that only God-fearing leaders can make accessible God-giving endowments to the people and this alludes to the saying of the bible that when the righteous are in power the people rejoice but when people are groaning and crying out that they are hungry it is because the unrighteous are in power. Power you may which to know is transient but leaders easily forget and learn nothing from history.
The security of lives and the property of Nigerians as well as the guarantee of their welfare as the constitution stipulates, is a cheap possibility if only the leaders can muster the political wheel to make it happen. Recall how the former President Muhammadu Buhari after his eight years that engendered the loss of thousands of innocent lives to the Fulani herders and farmers clashes with impunity, dividing Nigerians as never before along ethnic and religious lines and bankrupting the economy of the country, ended his tenure by begging Nigerians for forgiveness. Because Nigerians easily forgive and forget, that is why their leaders take them for granted and commit unimaginable crimes and go away with it. Should President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not have learnt an important lesson from the life of his predecessor and toe a path of honour and an integrity.
From what Nigerians have had gone bad for them now including the unconstitutional action of dismantling all the democratic structures in Rivers State, the insecurity problems that remain unabated with examples as the wanton killings of the Nigerians soldiers on a daily basis in the North-East, escalating banditry in the North-West, the mob action in Edo State that left more than sixteen Hausa travelers who are indigenes of Kano burnt alive, the most recent killing of innocent Nigerians in the Plateau where more than one hundred innocent and vulnerable citizens were gunned down and burnt alive and with many houses razed and the biting effects of the economic policies of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration on Nigerians and the draconian cyber-crime law used to silence dissenting voices against the policies of government in Nigeria, there is no better time than now especially with the protests that are engulfing the nation and leading it to a precipice, for the leaders to reflect and be ready to make amends that will usher in a positive change in the ways that Nigerians are governed now at the port before it is too late and lest the ship of Nigerians sink in the sea.
Remember the saying that “kings have long arms, but misfortune longer. Therefore, let none think of themselves out of reach”. there is just only one more victim of cyber-crime law in Nigeria to be apprehended by King Herod for him to be struck by an angel and be eating up by worms as the case was in the Act of Apostles chapter 12, as well as ushered him into his waterloo. “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil” (Eccl. 8:11). God bless Nigeria.
By Samuel Tunji Adeyanju
GMN Chief Executive Officer, USA
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