Recently, I
have looked at this phenomenon of expecting the government to do this for us
and do that for us as a complete hoax. One day, while we were still in the
University, in a lecture hall called Industrial Lab in the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka, I remember hearing my lecturer, Professor Ogbonna (A professor
of Industrial Microbiology) say that in the days of his fathers, Alhaji Shehu
Shagari and Co. who were in government and by extension in the leadership class
were to blame for the societal problems then. Invariably, his father and those
in that generation blamed the then president. Today, from what he said, his age
mates are the ones in the National Assemply and even in Aso Rock doing one
thing or the other and we still vehemently blame them for our problems. Then
his conclusion, fight your own fight and don't let government disappoint you. My
own submission is that when you fight your own fight, you will find yourself
being attentive to your truest self and the most creative realm of your
existence. This way, you have no one to blame but yourself and you can trust,
this will boost your productivity.
In our day to
day life, we sometimes trust too much that those we love will fight our fight;
that our parents will do this for us, that our uncles will do that for us, that
our aunties will come to our rescue bla...bla...bla!
