Afrikan Goddess (AG) Online

By: Samuel Stephen Wakdok (Published: January 8, 2010)

I do not have a problem with a Nigerian in particular blowing himself up and others in the air, at sea or on land. Neither do I care if the person is a Moslem, Christian or even an atheist. But I generally have a problem with anybody at all doing that. It is not a crime because the bomber is a Nigerian; it is a crime against God and humanity irrespective of the person’s nationality or religion, background or ideology.

Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the attempted suicide bombing of a U.S. airliner by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on 25^th of December 2009; leaving Nigeria with the liability. All the world now knows, especially the imperialistic capitalist West, is that Nigerians are terrorists or to put it mildly; potential terrorists. Consequently, the United States has included Nigeria on their list of terrorist countries. For the crime of one man out of a population of one hundred and fifty million, is this not infinitesimal? Yet they have failed to close their embassy in Nigeria. They only found it imminent to intensify the dehumanization of innocent Nigerians seeking to travel for legitimate businesses.

They can not close their embassy because of the interests they have in our oil and Nigeria provides a big market for them to dump their goods. Globalization has helped to reinforce terrorism in many ways. The three major approaches to Globalization are Capital flow (goods and money) Migration (people) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The developed world always finds excuses to restrict the free movement of people across their borders especially from the southern hemisphere. Paradoxically they want an uninhibited flow of their goods into our market and a free flow of our money and resources to their countries which has encouraged large scale corruption resulting to capital flight. ICT however has been the most helpful resource for the 21^st century terrorist as all terrorist attack have element of the use of ICT in planning and execution.

It is shamefully not only Al-Qaeda that takes responsibility and leaves us with liabilities. The Western world takes responsibility for giving us grants and aids leaving us with fallen capacity utilization and hunger. The oil companies mostly multi-national companies (MNCs) and Trans-national companies (TNCs) pollute our environment and flair our gas. They do not deny responsibilities but leave our people with the liability of a degraded ecosystem. Our political class rig elections as even President Yar’adua accepted the responsibility that a flawed electoral process brought his government to power in 2007.We are now more than ever left with the liability of a lame duck government in power with the resultant catastrophe. Government and university negotiators accepted responsibilities for deadlocks in negotiations during last year’s university strikes saddling the country with the liability of a prolonged closure of the universities.

Al-Qaeda knew the responsibility they had, and they also knew the liability on us will be unlimited. Before now an average terrorist or suicide bomber was an Arab. Thanks to Nigeria’s spoilt brat Farouk; the world now sees the black face of intra planetary terrorism. After all no one will be surprised if the black terrorist was a Sudanese or a Somali. We have seen the Janjaweeds in Darfur and the Al-shabab in Somalia. Recruiting and indoctrinating a Nigerian terrorist gives the probability that a quarter of the total blacks in the world are terrorists which is so significantly high. This is the responsibility they accepted. The glory of a people who feel they must fight their causes by killing innocent people leaving families and countries with liabilities. The annoying thing is that Farouk like all the people responsible for the misdirection of Nigeria belong to the privileged cult of a few who have belched on the wealth of the country at the expense of the generality of the citizens. Their excesses have always left us with no small snags.

The failed educational system in Nigeria is an example. Government officials, politicians and even lecturers are in high competition to send their kids and wards to school abroad .I can comprehend Nigerians in American, European or even Asian schools. I can also forgive Nigerians in South African, Ghanaian, Kenyan and North African Schools. But when Nigerians enroll in Togolese, Chadian and even Sudanese schools for mere secondary education at that, then the Nigerian picture becomes forlorn.

Unfortunately Farouk rather than becoming a martyr has turned his dad into a living martyr. He has killed his father while the man is alive. For to be the father of a terrorist is bad enough, but to be the father of a black albeit Nigerian terrorist is unimaginable as Mutallab senior would have known by now. In the same vein, our rulers have turned Nigerians into living martyrs. When Nigerians start spending Christmas in the petrol stations, when able bodied women not just men are begging on the streets and in the churches; when our elementary schools are so inept to educate our children, when we drive our cars jumping like grasshoppers on the highways to dodge potholes, when unemployment and inflation rise like Abel’s smoke, when the quality of living is dismal. Then sadly we are only alive but their responsibilities and irresponsibility have made our liabilities to kill us a very long time ago.

This is the start of a new decade; it is high time we dropped our docility as a people and champion our own liberation. We must change the misfortune that beclouds us as a people even if it means us engaging in affirmative actions. We can not continue to leave them with the responsibility of giving us liabilities. This is a clarion call for us to take responsibility for our lives and destiny; and eliminate the plethora of liabilities festered on us ad infinitum.

About the Author

Samuel Stephen Wakdok is a 31 year-old Nigerian. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Jos, in Nigeria. He has worked in the banking industry for over 5 years, and is married to his beautiful and lovely wife Cecilia. He can be reached at stcredoworld@gmail.com; visit his blog at www.credoworldmedia.wordpress.com and www.credoworld.blogspot.com

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