Peter Obi former governor of Anambra State said and i quote "To you young people, Take Back your Country...it is your future they are toying with". Read post below as shared...
I often wondered what he meant by that, until I took a time out, and had a careful clear headed thought about my land of birth and all the stories of great men and women who had in the past tried to change the lot of our people and tried to draw a conclusive comparison to what is happening in the present.
I often wondered if the patriotic blood that ran in the veins of our young leaders in the past have been diluted overtime to the sorry state and behaviour of our present day young men, who are so hungry or lazy to the extent that crumbs from the table of politicians arouse their libido.
At least the biblical selling of birth right for a plate of porridge was for more constructive and factual reason. Because our youths sell their soul for a paltry sum of N500 to politicians who will not sent their own children to perform exactly that same task.
We are the minority in the state and surrounded by large and powerful neighbours who are so happy to use us and in return do us a massive favour of choosing few confused illiterate, crooked, ex - convict, hunger - stricken, selfish, self-biting, half-backed, cult-ass-leaking, backstabbing, toothless politicians to man the few vital political offices that was suppose to be manned by well thinking young politicians from oro extraction.
We are often represented by bleached or worn out politicians who do nothing than concur what their masters say and at the end they are rewarded with crumbs from the tables of our mighty neighbours who are so always kind to package it in Ghana - must - Go bags while they singing the pre - meditated praise of thier suppose colonial masters.
These same people have turned Oro nation to cult breeding ground where any idiot can print t-shirts and mobilise 1000 youths in 1 hour to continue the praise singing in a political functions around the state.
We have seen enough impunity, our fathers have sold us out and disappointed us, most of them have received payment while most of them sold us out by just keeping quiet in the face of outstretched irregularities, It is not their future that they are meddling with, it is OURS.
We need to snatch it from them, after reading vanguard news recently and getting to understand why the Vice president visited AKS, which was to see why Niger Delta is always crying for help and de-marginilisation as a oil producing area, I was forced to ask myself the following questions,
I. Who represented Oro in that meeting?
II. Was this person equipped with the playbook that entails all the marginalisation and sidelining we the biggest oil producing area in AKS are facing in the hands of our big neighbours?
III. Was this person or people the same political stouge positioned by our big neighbours to say what they will like to hear?
IV. How was Oro represented?
V. Where is the report of how we were represented?
VI. Are we recognised as a oil producing Area?
VII. If yes, what have we gained as a oil producing area for the past 5 to 10 years.
VIII. If goodies actually roles in, who receives them?
So many questions to be asked and answered when the time comes.
Maybe the are waiting for us to form a violent group, it's done in delta, bayelsa and the government have listened and maybe something will be done soon by the recent moves of the FG, where do we stand in the struggle for recognition.
Do we keep talking on facebook or take over even if it needs blood. Note that my children will not suffer what am passing through.
We are producing oil yet we beg government for roads as if we don't deserve it.
We are producing oil yet we have no scholarship to go to schools, the few that comes in are privatised and sold off by greedy men.
We are producing oil yet our schools are in depleted state, with ill - managed facilities and terible teachers and instructor.
We need to talk, Oro Youths we need to talk.
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