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Saturday, 25 November 2017
THE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST! By Fr. Ben Agbo
Homily
recipe for the 34th Sunday of Yr A, Feast of Christ the King : THE LORDSHIP OF
CHRIST!
* Ez 34 : 11 - 17, 1Cor 15 : 20 - 28, Matt 25 : 31 - 46.
* Ez 34 : 11 - 17, 1Cor 15 : 20 - 28, Matt 25 : 31 - 46.
A. THE END TIME TRAGEDY IN 3 DIMENSIONS
1. PAST : From the point of view of the past, the end time presents us, according to the 1st reading of today with the failure of the designated shepherds of the people who lost interest in feeding the flock and bandaging the wounded and were more interested in milking from the healthy ones. The divine judgment is : 'I myself will search for my sheep.. I will seek the lost and bring back the strayed'. This is clearly emblematic of Pope Francis' papacy with the level of interest he has shown in moving the Church's attention back to the lost sheep. He sees the Church not as a toll gate for collection of levies and dues from the healthy but more as a field hospital for the bandaging of the wounded and the sick (cf Evangelium Gaudium, no 49, pg 41). It is left for other Church leaders to key into this perspective.
2. PRESENT : From the point of view of the present, the end time presents us with the reality of the kingship of Christ even in our midst today. The Bible says that 'he has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son in whom we have freedom and the forgiveness of our sins', Col 1 : 13. The 2nd reading of today says that Christ as King delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. This signals the end of the oppression of the children of God by the agents of Satan. This Chapter ends by saying that the last enemy to be destroyed is death : After this perishable nature has put on imperishability
3. FUTURE : From the point of view of the future, the gospel presents the tragedy of the individual and universal judgment and the imminent separation of the sheep from the goats when Christ comes as our judge /chief examiner. There will be 2 surprises : (1) Those who did not do good works will be condemned much more than those who did bad. The sin of omission will be more consequential than the sin of commission, because people's charity will cover a multitude of their sins, 1 Pet 4 : 8, Lk 16 : 19 - 31. (2) Those who directed their good works to the wrong channels may be condemned. The right target of our good works should be to 'one of the least of these brothers of mine', Matt 25 : 45. Friendly love is not exactly charity. The bottom line is love of your enemies and neighbour (any human being around you who is in need).
* These events will come as tragedy only to those who do not know Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour.
B.
CHRIST'S KINGSHIP AND LORDSHIP : CONTEXUALIZATIO N
It is not the noise we make today that make Christ our personal Lord and Saviour but our inner disposition to listen to his words and respond to them through our good deeds. So many of our Youths no longer come to Church except today just because of the Corpus Christi procession ceremony that resembles their 'Oriokpa /Akatakpa masquerade jirations day'. They will try to block roads and display their youthful rascality on a day like this.
The gospel tells us exactly how we are expected to respond to Christ's lordship by serving our neighbours in need. In the Beatitudes, we are shown what we are expected to be (poor in spirit, meek, pure in heart, etc), but in the last judgment, we are shown what we are expected to have done. According to Fr Emma Onuh of blessed memory, 'When I am hungry and have no food, it is a physical problem but when another person is hungry and I have food, it is a moral problem'. Those who are condemned are people who did not recognize Jesus in the poor around them.
It is not the noise we make today that make Christ our personal Lord and Saviour but our inner disposition to listen to his words and respond to them through our good deeds. So many of our Youths no longer come to Church except today just because of the Corpus Christi procession ceremony that resembles their 'Oriokpa /Akatakpa masquerade jirations day'. They will try to block roads and display their youthful rascality on a day like this.
The gospel tells us exactly how we are expected to respond to Christ's lordship by serving our neighbours in need. In the Beatitudes, we are shown what we are expected to be (poor in spirit, meek, pure in heart, etc), but in the last judgment, we are shown what we are expected to have done. According to Fr Emma Onuh of blessed memory, 'When I am hungry and have no food, it is a physical problem but when another person is hungry and I have food, it is a moral problem'. Those who are condemned are people who did not recognize Jesus in the poor around them.
C.
CONCLUSION
We must surrender other vestiges of loyalty contrary to the lordship of Christ
; our visit of pagan shrines, our romance with pagan masquerade ceremonies, our
attitude of favoritism, bribery and corruption, etc. God alone must be
worshipped on bended knees (confer 'Tantum ergo' - Isi ala n'ikpere ala k'anyi
na - etiri sacrament ukwu by St Thomas Aquinas ). We must try to maintain our
sobriety even as we dance before him today. We must avoid all forms of occultism,
witchcraft, idolatry and divination, Deut 29 : 29. His kingship is not of this
world. His Word says : 'Seek you first the kingdom of God and its
righteousness.. .', Matt 6 : 33. He is the king of our hearts. He must be
first of all allowed to affect our behavior, our relationships, our marriage
style, our wedding and funeral ceremonies, our political lives and our
spiritual lives. Let us reaffirm our faith today in his lordship as our
Shepherd, King and Judge : 'The Lord is my Shepherd, there is nothing I shall
want. Fresh and green are the pastures where he gives me repose... near restful
waters he leads me to revive my drooping spirit...', Ps 23. Happy Sunday dear
friends and Happy end of the Church's liturgical year!
Sunday, 19 November 2017
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A cup of coffee shared with a friend is
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2.
I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning,
the devil says, "Aw shit, he's up!
3.
May rays of the morning sun light the fire in you to achieve big things in
life. Good morning.
4. Wake up every morning with the thought that
something wonderful is about to happen.
5. DREAMING or DOING is a choice that will
mean the difference between FAILURE or SUCCESS. Good morning.
6. I went to sleep last night with a smile
because I knew I'd be dreaming of you ... but I woke up this morning with a
smile because you weren't a dream.
7. If you haven’t been able to achieve
something, today is the best time to start working towards it again. Good
morning.
8. Nothing is impossible when God is on your
side. Good morning.
9. Success is not just a measure of how big
you can DREAM, it is also a measure of how much you can DO. Good morning.
10. You have no idea how good it feels to wake
up every morning knowing you are mine and I am yours.
11. Stop thinking about how much more you can
sleep and start thinking about how much more you can do. Good morning.
12. Forget tomorrow, say goodbye to sorrow.
Think about the future, let your life rapture. Good Morning!
13. Morning is an important time of day,
because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are
going to have.
14. Wake up and face life’s challenges head
on. Else, life will become quite a challenge. Good morning.
15. I want you around in the morning and I
want to know you're legally required to be there.
16. It is good to dream big but your dreams
will never see the light of day if you sleep big too. Good morning.
17. This morning will never ever come back in
your life again. Get up and make the most of it. Good morning.
18. Even the smallest of thoughts have the
potential to become the biggest of successes… all you have to do is get up and
get going. Good morning.
19. Each morning we are born again, what we do
today is what matters most.
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inspirational life today. Good morning.
21. The biggest sources of motivation are your
own thoughts, so think big and motivate yourself to win. Good morning.
22. You are the first thing to enter my mind
in the morning and the last thing to leave my heart at night.
23. If you don’t wake up right now with your
full might, you will never be able to achieve that dream you saw last night.
Good morning.
24. If yesterday was a good day, don’t stop.
Maybe your winning streak has just begun. Good morning.
25. Rise up start fresh see the bright
opportunity in each day.
26. Don’t wake up with the regret of what you
couldn’t accomplish yesterday. Wake up while thinking about what you will be
able to achieve today. Good morning.
28. I went to sleep last night with a smile
because I knew I'd be dreaming of you ... but I woke up this morning with a
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35. Life never seems to be the way we want it,
but we live it the best way we can. There is no perfect life, but we can fill
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40. One day Monday went to Tuesday to see
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Philosophers Quotes
The Philosophers speak.. IZUNWAONU |
The unexamined life is not
worth living” – Socrates
- “Whereof one cannot speak,
thereof one must be silent” – Ludwig
Wittgenstein
- “Entities should not be
multiplied unnecessarily” – William of
Ockham
- “The life of man (in a state of
nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” – Thomas
Hobbes
- “I think therefore I am”
(“Cogito, ergo sum”) – René
Descartes
- “He who thinks great thoughts,
often makes great errors” – Martin
Heidegger
- “We live in the best of all
possible worlds” – Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz
- “What is rational is actual and
what is actual is rational” – G. W. F.
Hegel
- “God is dead! He remains dead!
And we have killed him.” – Friedrich
Nietzsche
- “There is but one truly serious
philosophical problem, and that is suicide” – Albert Camus
- “One cannot step twice in the
same river” – Heraclitus
- “The greatest happiness of the
greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation” – Jeremy
Bentham
- “To be is to be perceived”
(“Esse est percipi”)– Bishop
George Berkeley
- “Happiness is not an ideal of
reason but of imagination” – Immanuel
Kant
- “No man's knowledge here can go
beyond his experience” – John Locke
- “God is not willing to do
everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which
belongs to us” – Niccolo
Machiavelli
- “Liberty consists in doing what
one desires” – John Stuart
Mill
- “It is undesirable to believe a
proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true” – Bertrand
Russell
- “Even while they teach, men
learn” – Seneca the Younger
- “There is only one good,
knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” – Socrates
- “If God did not exist, it would
be necessary to invent Him” – Voltaire
- “This is patently absurd; but
whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by
absurdities” – Bertrand
Russell
- “One cannot conceive anything
so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one
philosopher or another” – René
Descartes
- “Leisure is the mother of
philosophy” – Thomas
Hobbes
- “Philosophy is a battle against
the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language” – Ludwig
Wittgenstein
- “There is only one thing a
philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other
philosophers” – William
James
- “We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” – Aristotle
- “Only one man ever understood
me, and he didn’t understand me” – G. W. F.
Hegel
- “The mind is furnished with
ideas by experience alone” – John Locke
- “Life must be understood
backward. But it must be lived forward ” – Søren
Kierkegaard
- “Science is what you know.
Philosophy is what you don't know” – Bertrand
Russell
- “Metaphysics is a dark ocean
without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck” – Immanuel
Kant
- “Philosophy is at once the most
sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits” – William
James
- “History is Philosophy teaching
by examples” – Thucydides
- “He who is unable to live in
society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be
either a beast or a god” – Aristotle
- “You can discover more about a
person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” – Plato
- “Things alter for the worse
spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly” – Francis
Bacon
- “All that is necessary for the
triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” – mistakenly attributed to Edmund
Burke
- “Is man merely a mistake of
God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?” – Friedrich
Nietzsche
- “I would never die for my
beliefs because I might be wrong” – Bertrand
Russell
- “Religion is the sign of the
oppressed ... it is the opium of the people” – Karl Marx
- “Happiness is the highest good”
– Aristotle
- “If men were born free, they
would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil”
– Baruch
Spinoza
- “The greater the difficulty,
the more glory in surmounting it” – Epicurus
- “Whatever is reasonable is
true, and whatever is true is reasonable” – G. W. F.
Hegel
- “Morality is not the doctrine
of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves
worthy of happiness” – Immanuel
Kant
- “Man is condemned to be free” –
Jean-Paul
Sartre
- “It is one thing to show a man
that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth” – John Locke
- “I don’t know why we are here,
but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves” – Ludwig
Wittgenstein
- “That man is wisest who, like
Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless” – Plato
- “The only thing I know is that
I know nothing” – Socrates
- “All is for the best in the
best of all possible worlds” – Voltaire
(in parody of Leibniz)
- “The function of prayer is not
to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays” – Søren
Kierkegaard
- “Man is born free, but is
everywhere in chains” – Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
- “Man will never be free until
the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest” – Denis
Diderot
- “If you would be a real seeker
after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as
far as possible, all things” – René
Descartes
- “Happiness lies in virtuous
activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is
contemplative” – Aristotle
- “I can control my passions and
emotions if I can understand their nature” – Spinoza
- “Philosophers have hitherto
only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to
change it” – Karl Marx
- “It is wrong always, everywhere
and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence” – W. K.
Clifford
- “Virtue is nothing else than
right reason” – Seneca the Younger
- “Freedom is secured not by the
fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire” – Epictetus
- “In everything, there is a
share of everything” – Anaxagoras
- “A little philosophy inclineth
man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about
to religion” – Sir
Francis Bacon
- “The brave man is he who
overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures” – Democritus
- “Good and evil, reward and
punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature” – John Locke
- “To do as one would be done by,
and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of
utilitarian morality” – John Stuart
Mill
- “Everything that exists is born
for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident” –
Jean-Paul
Sartre
- “Man is the measure of all
things” – Protagoras
- “We are too weak to discover
the truth by reason alone” – St.
Augustine
- “The mind is furnished with
ideas by experience alone” – John Locke
- 'I
think I am what people think I am"- Izunwaonu
CHECK YOUR HEAVENLY BANK ACCOUNT!
Homily recipe for the 33rd Sunday of Yr A 2017 :
CHECK YOUR HEAVENLY BANK ACCOUNT!
* Prov 31 : 10 - 31, 1Thess 5 : 1 - 6, Matt 25 : 14 - 20.
A. THE TRAGEDY OF DORMANCY
In day to day commerce, we all know that when an account is dormant, then it is useless unless it is reactivated. In physical biology, the theory of evolution states that unused potentials are often most likely to disappear. In spiritual life, it is even the greatest tragedy for God's gifts to be unused. Christians are expected not to keep their faith to themselves alone. According to F Lincione, 'God never intended his Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch converts'. St John Chrysostom puts it this way : 'Nothing is colder than a Christian soul which does not seek for the conversion of other souls'. In today's gospel we are presented with the tragedy of the man who received one talent and went and hid it for a long time. He had both a bad heart and a bad mouth. Just hear him speak to his master : 'I had heard (from gossip perhaps) that you were a hard man, reaping where you did not sow... so I was afraid (negative thinking) and I went and hid your talent on the ground. Here you have what is yours'.
* Prov 31 : 10 - 31, 1Thess 5 : 1 - 6, Matt 25 : 14 - 20.
A. THE TRAGEDY OF DORMANCY
In day to day commerce, we all know that when an account is dormant, then it is useless unless it is reactivated. In physical biology, the theory of evolution states that unused potentials are often most likely to disappear. In spiritual life, it is even the greatest tragedy for God's gifts to be unused. Christians are expected not to keep their faith to themselves alone. According to F Lincione, 'God never intended his Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch converts'. St John Chrysostom puts it this way : 'Nothing is colder than a Christian soul which does not seek for the conversion of other souls'. In today's gospel we are presented with the tragedy of the man who received one talent and went and hid it for a long time. He had both a bad heart and a bad mouth. Just hear him speak to his master : 'I had heard (from gossip perhaps) that you were a hard man, reaping where you did not sow... so I was afraid (negative thinking) and I went and hid your talent on the ground. Here you have what is yours'.
This pericope contains 3 'R' s : Reward, Rebuke and Remark. (a) Reward : Faithful servants who used their talents well were rewarded with more talents. (b) Rebuke : The wicked and lazy servants were rebuked for cowardice and insolence. (c) Remark : Everyone who has (faith) will be given more and from the man who has not ; even what he has will be taken away. The lesson is that divine grace must be accounted for no matter how little. In simple arithmetic, a gain of 1 million from 1 million is the same as a gain of 1 naira from 1 naira (both are a 100% gain). People who are charitable can exhibit their sense of charity even in modest occupations like farming, civil service, petty trading, etc. People who are prayerful can find time for their prayers even in the midst of busy family life. There is zero tolerance for domancy in the spiritual life.
B. VARIETY OF GIFTS
There are varieties of gifts in the Church ; Some have artistic gifts ; they can contribute their quota in the house of God as writers, musicians, actors, architects or builders. Some have the gift of Wisdom and leadership ; they can contribute their quota in the Church as bishops, priests, teachers, politicians, chairmen of Church councils, etc. Some have the gift of physical strength ; they can contribute their quota in the Church as labourers, carpenters, masons, security men, etc.
There are varieties of gifts in the Church ; Some have artistic gifts ; they can contribute their quota in the house of God as writers, musicians, actors, architects or builders. Some have the gift of Wisdom and leadership ; they can contribute their quota in the Church as bishops, priests, teachers, politicians, chairmen of Church councils, etc. Some have the gift of physical strength ; they can contribute their quota in the Church as labourers, carpenters, masons, security men, etc.
Every temperament has areas of strength and weaknesses that should be exploited for the benefit of the Church ; Cholerics have self confidence that can be useful in leadership ; Sanguines have friendliness that can be used in evangelism ; Phlegmatics have self control that can be used in teaching and formation of Youths ; Melancholics have feeling and sensitivity that can be used in the prayer and service ministries. Today's 1st reading speaks of the eulogy of the ideal wife - a biblical imagery that stands for the Church as the bride of Christ. The ideal wife enjoys the confidence of her husband. She is dutiful as she sets her hands on desk making soap, cakes, clothes, shoes, bags and doing whatever she can do to help her husband cater for the family needs. She is charitable to the poor and takes good care of both her husband's relations and her's alike. She is wise and provides good counsel for her husband.
C. SPIRITUAL VIGILANCE
The test on the last day is whether we made full use of our talents for the growth of his kingdom on earth. Many of us have a poor sense of responsibility and record keeping /assessment of our investments /output especially in spiritual matters. Many think they are in good shape spiritually when in fact they may have little or nothing in their heavenly bank accounts. Take note that every account is made up of credits and debits, inputs and outputs, talents and their use. We must learn how to check our spiritual account balance everyday.
The test on the last day is whether we made full use of our talents for the growth of his kingdom on earth. Many of us have a poor sense of responsibility and record keeping /assessment of our investments /output especially in spiritual matters. Many think they are in good shape spiritually when in fact they may have little or nothing in their heavenly bank accounts. Take note that every account is made up of credits and debits, inputs and outputs, talents and their use. We must learn how to check our spiritual account balance everyday.
D. CONCLUSION
The Church is like the ideal wife who is faithful, creative, charitable and kind. Priests and Church leaders must realize that the Church is not a toll gate for the collection of levies from the healthy but more of a field hospital for the healing of the sick. According to Pope Francis, 'I prefer a Church which is bruised than a Church which is unconcerned with the plight of sinners and the weak' (Apostolic Exhortation 'Evangelium Gaudium', 49, pg 41). In Nigeria today for example, the Church is gradually turning into a toll house where in some dioceses and parishes, Sunday worship has been turned into a money hunting jamboree with only few minutes for the Word of God and the liturgical prayers. Many priests have reduced the barometer of judgment of their success in their ministry to how many physical structures they are able to put up. They therefore spend sufficient time and energy every Sunday scouting for money without caring for the spiritual needs of their flock. Many parents spend a lot of their time and energy in providing for the financial needs of their family without teaching their children the need for prayer and the fear of God.
The Church is like the ideal wife who is faithful, creative, charitable and kind. Priests and Church leaders must realize that the Church is not a toll gate for the collection of levies from the healthy but more of a field hospital for the healing of the sick. According to Pope Francis, 'I prefer a Church which is bruised than a Church which is unconcerned with the plight of sinners and the weak' (Apostolic Exhortation 'Evangelium Gaudium', 49, pg 41). In Nigeria today for example, the Church is gradually turning into a toll house where in some dioceses and parishes, Sunday worship has been turned into a money hunting jamboree with only few minutes for the Word of God and the liturgical prayers. Many priests have reduced the barometer of judgment of their success in their ministry to how many physical structures they are able to put up. They therefore spend sufficient time and energy every Sunday scouting for money without caring for the spiritual needs of their flock. Many parents spend a lot of their time and energy in providing for the financial needs of their family without teaching their children the need for prayer and the fear of God.
Accountability is the watchword of today's readings. We must all prepare to render accounts one day to the master checker of the Universe. Pope Francis in 'Amoris Laetitia' insists that parishes must develop a spiritual support system for newly married couples to guide them through at least the first 6 years of their married life. All we do in this part of the world is to collect huge clearance money from them, rush through their marriage course preparations. Then, as soon as they come to the marriage tribunals complaining after a few years, we quickly grant them annulment.
St Ireneus says that 'The glory of God is the glory of the human person fully realized'. Parents and pastors should help their children and parishioners realize their physical and spiritual potentials. The one talent we are all called to develop is that of loving God and loving our neighbours. We must all render account for this. Happy Sunday dear friends! Fr. Ben Agbo
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Are we not insane? Unmask the Mask.
Is
it the fear of saying the right thing or the fear of saying the right thing in
a wrong way that made our people refused to talk? Why are we living unauthentic
life? Let us unmask the mask and then face reality. I think, some Igbos,
precisely some of our governors love money more than they love their brothers.
Before now, I use to think that the love of money is the root of all evil but
now I have learnt that, it is the "greediness" that is the root of
evil. Why did I say so? These people have the money yet they are not satisfied;
they want power.
Igbos!!! We
are the cause of our problems. You call him ENYIOMA of Ndi Igbo (for Ebonyi
State), or OCHIOHA Ndi Igbo (for South East), what did he do to merit that? Is
the killing of Igbos in Aba that merited him that? Even if we all are not in
support of Nnamdi Kanu, what about Python Dance; the killing of Innocent Igbos
calling them terrorist. Terrorists terrorizing with what? Can you talk about
security? If you think there is security, then why do you lock your doors? Why
do you go around with personal security or don't you travel abroad? Why do
people build tall fences? In abroad, they don't
build fences, rather they plant flowers for decoration. Where are our politicians?
Don't you travel abroad? All these are signs of insecurity in Nigeria. Why can't
the Python dance be done on Fulani herdsmen and their cow?
Igbo Politicians!!!
Who is fooling who? We are fooling ourselves.
I
am not talking about secession, rather I am talking about the unity of Nigeria.
Yes Buhari said on his speech when he visited Ebonyi State,
"Igbo is Nigeria and Nigeria is Igbo.
Both are inseparable"
I
love that, both are inseparable because of oil. But we have to tell ourselves
the truth. That object of unity which I think is "Oil" will one day cease
to be there. By then Nigeria will be dismembered among the oil nations. We have refused to reason
beyond today and that is the main reason Nigerians behave like those in the
state of nature. That is why Nigeria seem to be one of the most disorderly
nation in the world. That oil will not continue to be there.
What about the
area the oil comes from? Are they not Nigerians? I heard about sanitization of
Ogoni oil spillage. Waiting forward to hearing more about it again. If our
politicians think they are enjoying now, if they think politics is pleasant, they should
know that not everything that is pleasant or enjoying is good. But everything
that is good is pleasant.
Those
people who buy our oil, do you think they will continue to buy the oil? They
have started manufacturing another energy source alternative. They have cars
that use solar energy, electricity, bio cells etc. Those
people have plan for their future unlike Nigeria and this has made me to say
that Nigeria is not a place we can sleep
at night knowing that tomorrow will be better as he quoted in his speech in
number 9. How many ministers are from
Igbo? What and what has he done for us...? Maybe he will favor us in 2018
budget. But don't we have representatives there in the house of Assembly? Who
knows?
I
think this great country will be better if we follow the rule of law. Let our
politicians stop using human beings as means to end rather let them consider
their fellow human being as an end itself. Igbos, how do we treat ourselves. We
have many cases of kidnapping, robbering, 419 every where. We use our intelligence for negative things. We are the problem we have.
The
reward for doing the right thing is a hundred times better than doing the wrong
or heartless thing. I am talking to our politicians now. This men who use gun
everywhere, how did they get the guns. You can kill to ascend that office of
Local Government Chairman, Governor or President... but only posterity will
tell.
Who is fooling who, we are fooling ourselves. Let us unmask the mask and face reality.
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