I just realized very few waste money like they waste time. While playing games could sometimes worth the while, most times we simply take too much time playing games that add little or nothing. But take a pause and ponder on this fact that you can’t re-created or recover a minute you have wasted. And think of it, we have very limited time to be around. The best we could have perhaps is a 100 years which I’m sure many will not mind 70.
There is too much money, in fact Zillions of them in the world; dollars, pounds, euros, nairas, you name them. I get confused when I see very many people who task themselves for wisdom when it comes to spending money yet very few spare a thought when they waste their time away in unprofitable gossips and discussions. Yes, I dare say so because when one is in the right place doing the right thing, money is bound to flow.
See how people go after money like it’s going out of circulation the next day when it is indeed their life they can’t guarantee they can still have the next day. Life itself is time. When Life stops, your time stops ticking. When your time stops ticking definitely your life has come to an end.
The worst any government can do to its citizens is not stealing their wealth blind but keeping them waiting for promises that can never be fulfilled. It is not about how much money they have stolen from them but how much of their time they have succeeded in wasting. How do we recover the decades wasted in military government? As if Nigeria has not suffered enough, look at how the politicians have been frugal with our time.
It is becoming clearer by the day that this generation of leaders will not provide Nigeria with un-interrupted electric power. Our children will continue to learn under mango trees or sit on bare floors as barely-literate teachers blow chalk dust on their disillusioned faces. We don’t need clairvoyance to tell that till the end of this regime corruption will continue operate unchallenged in our public institutions. Nigerians will have to adjust to live with insurgency until this generation of inept leadership is replaced.
Each time we are told to be patient with our fledgling democracy, I feel short-changed. How much time will it require to mature when it is apparent that the whole thing is turning childish by the day. To refer to our democracy as fledgling is to means we are making progress, how has this progress being proved? When Abati pleads for time to deal with all the corrupt officials in government, I wonder if this man understands he is asking for what he can’t replace.
How much more time does this government need before it starts fixing Nigeria? We can afford to be frugal with money but certainly not time.
(I really didn’t want to talk about this GEJ’s government as I don’t relish talking about it again and I sincerely wish I can refrain)
June 6, 2014
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