Friday, January 13, 2006

Myopia

Well, it has to be on a lighter mode - no matter how pressed I am to tackle issues headlong and with the wholee of my energy. Everything has to be on a cool, smooth, laugh-it-off platform. A platform where burning issues are treated with calmness and less adrenaline to remove/reduce heart stress.
Like a minister for maximum enjoyment and utmost pleasure, I bessech you to frequently ease out stress and tension from your great workload and daily upheavals.
I've had so much to blog on this day - so much that I feel very pained to blog something with great tenecity but after a few paragraphs, I remember it always has to be "On a lighter mode".
Well....considering the present happenings across the globe, it's pertinent to let our views be known. Situation reports shows that President Idriss Deby of Chad (West Africa) is towing his nation in the path Nigeria has been through. The path of clouded and clandestine oil-renevue sharing. The government has , contrary to its agreement with World Bank, decided to share it's revenue from it's just discovered oil-reserves in another way. This other way favouring present needs of the youths. The government says it's allocating funds for the present hungry generation and not putting coming generation first.
To me, it's more of a myopic way of planning life that has been plagueing leaders of this age.
It's the same thing with the slogan/principles/legacy of the political god-father of Oyo state (Western Nigeria) Lamidi Adedibu. He said he's practising Amala politics. Amala politics, in his term, is that type of politics that you base all your agenda & plans/manifesto on your ability to eat/grab/grub/consume/devour everything you can when at the helms of power.
This view is shared by many people in many races and generations. It runs through many minds. Even in that of the investor - grab your profits fast now and log out. No one wants to wait for long-term profit anymore, understanding that anything can happen at anytime. No pharmaceutical company wants to invest in research on malaria 'cos if drugs that can totally annihilate it are produced, how much will Africans pay for it? In their eyes, they deem it worthless to invest huge sums of money into its research only to get maybe 3% profit (if they're lucky) on it. They would rather do that of AIDS cause many rich nations fall in that trap. I wonder why African nations can't adopt the use of DDT and 'darn the consequences'. There's an addage that says that 'a man dies only but once.'
Even Shakespeare said 'Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.' Why not fight malaria once and prevent yearly deaths and loss of millions of dollars. Truth is you don't prevent death by signing for iminent future deaths and waste of money together with it. It's because many of them profit for purchase of malaria drugs.
People fail to understand that driving profit in everything we do should also have to do with conscience.
Well, so much for them! May their pot-bellies enlarged with profit burst when full.
Please remember that you need not stress ypurself, these people will continue to do things that perk at your temper and make you wanna explode. It definitely has to be on a lighter mode.

2 comments:

EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima said...

I love your "Orishirishi" post.
From Chad to Nigeria.
Thank God that Chad has a manageable population to enjoy their oil boom.

Amala politics with shaki and pomo would be fine for Baba Iyabo and Pa Lamidi Adedibu. Because, birds of the same feather flock together.

In a conference of political crooks and stewards and you are the Chairman, how can you say you are not corrupt?

Baba Iyabo is a joker.

Anthony Arojojoye said...

Thanks Oriki.
You can get about all the things you want here. It's a classless blog.

I somehow have a feeling that Adedibu will still receive the stick from Baba Iyabo this year.

By the way, something struck my mind this morning and I beamed with smile. Think about the script where Adedibu suddenly dies (at least he's old enough, it's not a taboo thinking it for him)!. It will become what Fela will call "Bo o lo o ya", meaning if you don't wanna go leave the road.