The piece from where this continues generated a lot of controversies as expected. This is so on the fact that the writers is the word and the readers is the interpretation. Also for the sake of reading without studying. A very view read it through the authors mind, others supported the writer because they feel it favours there blindfold, others totally got their nerves on the wild and would probably be still mad at the writer because they feel the piece was designed against their blindfold, some others simply remind indifrent while the rest got critical but injected some bias thoughts their blindfold brought hence got it all twisted.
WHY THE INTERMISSION
You may want to wonder and ask why intermission, Was it necessary, wouldn't he had just made his point than play with our intelligence? Sorry, but the purpose had been achieved which was to set the record right that our world view have been so dark colored by our blindfolds (sentemets) that our view of things is totally one sided and something close to being myopic. A christian will first see the Islamist in the writings than the facts and falls of his piece, an Islamist will first see the Christian in the writer than the facts and falls of his piece, so much so that we see how unqualify we each are to talk on religions we do not follow forgetting knowledge is vast. On the political realm, we APC members will see the hate in a PDP member talking about Buhari even when he says "Buhari is good" same will PDP members first see the hate in an APC member to PDP when he chooses to talk on PDP.
Back on the piece you could see that majority read the book by the cover, many of them never noticed the fact I established something that suggest the fact that the change we want and expected is not the change we see. (Different varying definitions)
THE CHANGE
APC promised us change, PDP promised us Transformation in their respective campaigns. The Change have come, we live with it, but do not understand it. I cannot recall any body asking APC what change they offer us. Change can be to anything good or bad. If APC's definition of change was removing PDP from power, have they not achieved it? If Olamide's definition of change was "Bihari and Osigbanjo" as he sang has he not achieved his change? If most Northern Muslims definition of change was to remove Goodluck Ebele Jonathan from power have they not achieved their change?. That is on the one end which is to say our satisfaction lays on the definition of what change is. My frequent follows will rightly know that my first article with regards to the present administration was a call to Buhari on his definition of fighting Corruption where I called for a redirection since I noticed he was fighting what I called the crime of corruption and not corruption itself.
ON TRANSMISSION
It will be with little or nor wit if anyone will say there is nor transformation ongoing even though the present administration did not promised transformation as a word but change which in a way is transformation.
Transformatoon is a marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better. It is not something that will go through legislative processes nor is it something that goes only when the going is soft but even when the going gets tough. I recall I was asked what the change and the transformation are. Now I answer that the change is the transformation we see. And what is the transformation?
I leaved in a society where everyone seem to be waiting for government for their daily bread. A society where a very good farmer waves the farm, sacrifice his tools for a white paper they call employment letter. It was a society where as soon as government offers a person his so called "pensionable work" he sacrifices all his potentials. In that society I lived there was a youth running a car wash business, if what he told me was true, he was saving two thousand Nigerian naira a day after, but he abandoned that business and was careless about it till it gradually died off, cote-cee a primary school teaching government employment.
In this same society I lived largely among civil servants who spend all their earnings in advance and even spend far above their earnings. This made almost all of them
Professional deptors only for their stomach and not even a better live or an investment of some sort.
I lived in a society where Local government workers only come to office at month end to claim their salaries. A society where the politician is a god that must not be talked ill of even if he were wrong. I society where any body can be anything at whatever time.
I lived in a society where a party member card was enough to give you whatever you wanted. A society with an identity card that was not as useful as the party card. It was a society free to air through b
Disgusted doom.
I lived in a society where the widow, Widower, and Opherns live in hell even when their Fathers, Mothers, Husbands and wives have worked and left enough death benefits for then to live on. A society where out of share heartlessness people enjoy other people's death benefits living their love ones suffer much more hell than allocated them by the demise of their love ones.
It was a society where there was high unemployment rate yet there was enough vacancies for the sons and daughters of party excos and members, highly placed personalities, politicians, Directors, Local Government education sacretaries e.t.c even when such children were not quified.
A society where children of the oppotuned get paid salaries even from tender age, monies they never worked for yet the life of the view workers were pathetic under the guise of the norm that hides in the claim of no sufficient funds.
A society that the grand norm seem to suggest keeping the poor in perpetual poverty for loyalty sake. That society where every on wants to be the all in all in his locality and can do anything what so ever so sacrifices communal unity for self glory. That time when our brothers will hide our files to ensure we do not get promoted at work. When the would rather sale any opportunity they have to the stranger and sale it at home let alone given it freely.
A society where infrastructural development was poor and In some localities unavailable yet in paper it was available. And no one knows but the beneficiary.
A society where everything can go wrong with little fellows or now fellow at all saying anything about it possible because the master was one, his house was one so to speak against the masters house was to speak against one house.
And politics generally became a dirty game with may parents, religious leaders, ... Barnning their subjects from joining. That time when the only lier known was a politician.
WHERE THEN IS THE TRANSFORMATION IN ALL THIS
The point here is not in the act of better things that have come but if the fact that the bad things are now seen and felt by all against the tradition of old when it was only the poor that see feel the pains of it. That is to say, I am not saying the miracle have come but I am saying the problem is known and the first stage of solving a problem is knowing the problem.
Today almost everyone knows well not to depend on government but to find their sources of livelihood that will complement whatever penny the get from the government. We seem to all agree that government work should be a sort of additional means of livelihood and not to replace our earlier means of livelihood. Isn't that transformation and change.
Today also, many of the civil servants in my locality knows well to cut their coat a little less than their sizes so that the can save some for other purposes rather than live on a higher cost and remaining slaves to those they are incepted to forever.
In the same society, where for years I like many others have been preaching self reliance, entrepreneurial developments, savings and investments to no avail, today on their own the are being resourceful.
For instance, in my nighbourhood alone we have three to four shops ranging from profession stores, mini coca-cola depot, kitchen utensils store, and betteringtwo saloons of the respective sexs all owned by civil servants who never saw the need for an investment before. And all this began within this year cot-cee the cahnfe hardship.
We now have teachers and other civil servants on road transport business about six of them that I can identify and this does not affect their commitments to work in any way as they have peoples running this things for them and God's faithfulness abiding with them.
Furthermore the farms are busy. For every moment I turn and see the ginger, the corn, the ground nuts, the maize, the beans (Mada, waken gida, and Achi-shuru) particularly, and many more farm produce that are entering into the homes of civil servants how have said bye to farming, I am on able to say a word but Thank the Lord as I ask, Is that not Transformation? Is that not change?
Today everyone seem to be extra careful with the work God have so bless him with, there is a positive turn on things with regards to attaining to official needs as should. That too is a transformation, it is a change.
Today there is a down turn on the power of party membership and cards in and appreciable manner with regards to influencing benefits especially illegally. That too is T&C.
Today we know the secret of the pains the widows, widowers, and "orphans had to suffer, we know a very good number of those heartlessly enjoying benefits of the death of those the have no formal affiliation to. We know many who were offered replacement jobs illegally bearing the names of the death, or claiming monies in the name of the death there by denying relatives of the dead their lost one's benefits. Is that knowledge a lone not change, is it not Transforming.
Though the unemployment is still there, but today we know those who have stopped meaningful and positive development, we know those who earn what the do don't deserve, we have a drastic reduction in the number of unqualified workers who have occupied the places of the qualified. We know those whose affiliations have granted them some favours even above their seniors but now are back to where the rightly belong. Is that not change? Is that not Transformation.
Today, it is not only the poor that suffers the hardship, the recession, and what ever ill our doing and undoing is causing but largely everyone each according to what his statues deserves. Is there no change, is there no Transformation? Would things not more easily solved and bear if we are on this same page?
Today we know a lot of areas who lack schools, water, electricity, schools, ... Simply because in the papers it is recorded projects as such have been awarded, executed and are in use. The knowledge of it is a change and Transforming.
Today there are two strong masters, two hauses, I can tell the master of house "A" his ills and be protected by house "B" and the table would still serve same purpose when turned over. That is a great transformation, that is a change.
Today there seem to be a sound the sings, politics is not so dirty, we cannot do without involvement, everyone in every field can be saint or sinner. And politics is gradually regaining respect as deserved. Transformation and change it is.
If APC is doing us good, it is changing us, it is transforming us, if they are doing us bad, it is changing us, it is trnsformaing us. [Positivity, Objectivity, Critical mindedness]
J.F. Dabo
