OPINION: I Will Never Be Part Of That Irrational Coinage Called 'Our Own' | Isah Bala
One of our biggest problems as a people is the irrational coinage called 'our own' that has found its ugly head in our polity where the people belief as far as their kinsmen are in power, they shouldn't be criticized for any wrong or replaced with people who can do better.
This belief is alien and antithetical to development and critics that would have kept the government on their toes to adjust their undoings keep mum in an attempt to protect their kinsmen.
The proponents of this ill-thought wouldn't see anything wrong with the government of the day as far as their tribesmen or kinsmen are at the helm of affair and spearheading the government paraphernalia.
This illogical submission and belief has over the years drawn a toga to becloud our sense of reasoning, judgment and condemnation of anti-people's policies, actions and performances of those at the helm of affairs in as much as such individuals are within a particular extraction, zone or tribe where the pundits who ought to condemn his/her undoings hail from.
In this part of the world, it's no longer about antecedence, competence, credibility of government officials, it's rather the unfortunate wrong path that hammer on tribe, religion and geographical extractions of the person governing or seeking to govern.
I never knew our sense of reasoning has reached its lowest ebb until a supposed elite who's one of the proponents of this ill-thought said, "even if he is not doing anything, let him stay there, he is our own'
To such a believer of irrational belief, it's a crime to criticize the govevment of the day and point out areas that need to be amended. They are always spreading the gospel of 'we need to support our own' but what I've never seized to ask is, supporting 'our own' with what? Is it the unprecedented brake through in undemocratic practises or the civil servants who always receive their emoluments on social media before the month ends.
Then, you have the right to your opinion but we ought to do that placing the interest of the general public beyond any other considerations.
No man is infallible neither is any man perfect, like a moralist once opines, "the best help you can offer to a leader is to continually tell them the truth even if it's against their policies and what they want to hear."
But it's rather heart-wrenching that the government of the day has long drawn a thick line of dichotomy between herself and truth and the supposed elites turned to praise singers and cheerleaders just to be seen as an ardent supporters of the government to get their own share of the state treasury.
Before you vilify me and others who are not satisfied that 'our own' is at the helm of affair,
you and other proponents
of this ill-thougjt need to do more to convince some of us who are not satisfied that 'our own' is at the helm of affair and everything should be considered right and be seen as the best to ever govern the state even when every indices doesnt prove that to be right.
They need to convince us that workers' emolument is not important as we perceived it in a civil servant state like Kogi even though the present condition of the civil servants is beyond what words can explain.
Me and many others need to be convinced that the children of civil servants who were withrawn from various institutions of learning because their parents couldn't afford their fees is not important and shouldn't have been enough reason not to see 'our own' as the best.
They need to do more to convince us why we should be part of praise singers that will see everything as right because is coming from 'our own' instead of being critics that will face 'our own' with the truth of the reality on ground and critique his actions and policies to make him the best.
They need to do more to convince us why we shouldn't see anything wrong because 'our own' is governing, pls tell us the reason someone deserves our support and save us from that irrational coinage called 'our own' which mean nothing to that boy dying in the hospital and the hundreds of students whose ambitions have been cut-short because their parents who work for the state couldn't afford their bills.
This belief is alien and antithetical to development and critics that would have kept the government on their toes to adjust their undoings keep mum in an attempt to protect their kinsmen.
The proponents of this ill-thought wouldn't see anything wrong with the government of the day as far as their tribesmen or kinsmen are at the helm of affair and spearheading the government paraphernalia.
This illogical submission and belief has over the years drawn a toga to becloud our sense of reasoning, judgment and condemnation of anti-people's policies, actions and performances of those at the helm of affairs in as much as such individuals are within a particular extraction, zone or tribe where the pundits who ought to condemn his/her undoings hail from.
In this part of the world, it's no longer about antecedence, competence, credibility of government officials, it's rather the unfortunate wrong path that hammer on tribe, religion and geographical extractions of the person governing or seeking to govern.
I never knew our sense of reasoning has reached its lowest ebb until a supposed elite who's one of the proponents of this ill-thought said, "even if he is not doing anything, let him stay there, he is our own'
To such a believer of irrational belief, it's a crime to criticize the govevment of the day and point out areas that need to be amended. They are always spreading the gospel of 'we need to support our own' but what I've never seized to ask is, supporting 'our own' with what? Is it the unprecedented brake through in undemocratic practises or the civil servants who always receive their emoluments on social media before the month ends.
Then, you have the right to your opinion but we ought to do that placing the interest of the general public beyond any other considerations.
No man is infallible neither is any man perfect, like a moralist once opines, "the best help you can offer to a leader is to continually tell them the truth even if it's against their policies and what they want to hear."
But it's rather heart-wrenching that the government of the day has long drawn a thick line of dichotomy between herself and truth and the supposed elites turned to praise singers and cheerleaders just to be seen as an ardent supporters of the government to get their own share of the state treasury.
Before you vilify me and others who are not satisfied that 'our own' is at the helm of affair,
you and other proponents
of this ill-thougjt need to do more to convince some of us who are not satisfied that 'our own' is at the helm of affair and everything should be considered right and be seen as the best to ever govern the state even when every indices doesnt prove that to be right.
They need to convince us that workers' emolument is not important as we perceived it in a civil servant state like Kogi even though the present condition of the civil servants is beyond what words can explain.
Me and many others need to be convinced that the children of civil servants who were withrawn from various institutions of learning because their parents couldn't afford their fees is not important and shouldn't have been enough reason not to see 'our own' as the best.
They need to do more to convince us why we should be part of praise singers that will see everything as right because is coming from 'our own' instead of being critics that will face 'our own' with the truth of the reality on ground and critique his actions and policies to make him the best.
They need to do more to convince us why we shouldn't see anything wrong because 'our own' is governing, pls tell us the reason someone deserves our support and save us from that irrational coinage called 'our own' which mean nothing to that boy dying in the hospital and the hundreds of students whose ambitions have been cut-short because their parents who work for the state couldn't afford their bills.
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