The World As it Spins

The parable narrated hereafter is based on true events which happened sometime one afternoon somewhere in Central Nigeria. A lot of Maggi and Pepper has been added for the edification and education of your soul on some burning Nigerian issues. Note: All the children in my street are under my jurisdiction to correct, discipline and guide along the path of glory. It happened that this afternoon as I was standing at the threshold of my father's house a group of young lads came to me. I noticed that two of them were contesting the ownership of a red rope. I looked at them with compassion as I asked "What is the bone of contention?" "This rope belongs to my family, he wants to take it" said a chap with prominent front teeth like mine. "Yes but he destroyed my torch so it's only fair that I posses this rope" said his contestant. Both still held tightly to the rope. I must admit that both had come to buy something from me :-D As soon as we were ...

Nothing good comes easy. True? Here are my thoughts on this issue. I believe this statement has been misinterpreted a lot and has been used to enslave a lot of people. Let us get this clear: Suffering is not hard work. People have been made to suffer and have been made to think that if they had it any easier nothing good will come out of it. My grouse is not that people suffer; my beef is the justification of the needless suffering by people in high places. People even have this saying that anything you do not suffer for you do not appreciate. True that, but haba there are a lot of things we ought to take for granted for example good roads, water, cheap internet and stress free education. Trekking the length of a football pitch to get water is suffering that doesn’t result in any public good, being forced to cram something you were not taught just to pass is not good suffering, the bureaucratic bottlenecks you go through to get things done is suffering that profits no one. It ...