SCARS



                                      SCARS  
C(2018)                CHIBU NDUBUISI     29/01/2018       WEEK 5
                   “The wound is the place where the light gets in” RUMI
                                                                    
   
Peace be with you.
 
Scars all reminds us of an experience that altered our views, understanding, perceptions of life and either ushered us into more extreme or balanced understanding about life. 

In his classic political thriller book “Power Politics and Death”,  Olusegun Adeniyi notes that the scars he had to contend with, was that as media spokesman of late President Yar’ Adua, and at the height of the president’s  ailment he was denied access to his principal. On his own part, he made the error of addressing the “Acting President” Jonathan as Vice President. In his submissions he notes that;
  In light of the fact that Yar’Adua was brought home invalid, which I didn’t know at the time, I agree it was wrong for me to have addressed Jonathan as VP; I should have addressed him as acting president”.

The author decided not to hide his scars as a presidential spokesman. He went further to correct himself by saying that “I accept responsibility for that error of judgement and feel deeply sorry about it”. This is what I expect from the government of the day to accept responsibility for their failures and brings fresh heads and hands to help stir the ship of state rather than trading blames.

I want to stand on this acceptance of responsibility to commiserate and console all families of all those who have been killed brutally, callously and unjustly in Nigeria as a regard of lackluster policy initiatives.

Have we not lived long enough in the valley of despair? Have we not lived long in the valley of tears? Have we not lived long in the valley of indifference of our common humanity? When will our healing come?  Lose your scar and you lose your story. Frank Sintra averred that “don’t hide your scars; they make you who you are”.

The pains and agony we are all experiencing in Nigeria now are messages and signals. We must understand the writing on the wall that in leadership no one knows it all. We must not ignore the calls geared towards directing, fashioning and working out a way of building a free and just society. It is a collective work.

In his 2017 TED talk Jonathan Sacks notes that;
We have fallen in to magical thinking when we believe that electing a particular strong leader will solve all our problems. When this type of thinking dominates, we fall for extremism on the far right or far left”. The solution he averred is that” when we move from the politics of “ME” to the politics of “ALL OF US TOGETHER” we discover counter intuitive truth that a nation is strong when it cares for the weak, that it becomes rich when it cares for the poor, it becomes invulnerable when it cares about the vulnerable”.

Peace be upon you.

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