Reaping What You Sow, By Hannatu Musawa

It is an important teaching in Christianity
that God is not mocked; whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also reap. We
cannot escape the consequence of our
actions; everything that we do as
participants in this interconnecting
community has repercussions and one
way or another it comes back to us.
Much like this principle and the law of
Karma, in nearly every religion and
culture there is a fervent belief that the
total result of a person’s deeds and
actions during the successive phases of
the person’s existence determines the
feedback fate issues that person within
their life time or in the hereafter. It is
further taught, ‘if we sow a thought we
reap an act, if we sow an act, we reap a
habit, if we sow a habit, we reap a
character and if we sow a character, we
reap a consequence.’
At this point in time, nowhere should this
message be reiterated than on our very
own doorsteps where few people in the
corridors of power are determined to
garner us towards a most debauched
consequence.
Despite the outcry that continues to
follow our recent irrational and derisible
presidential pardon of criminals and
kleptomaniacs, notwithstanding the
embarrassment of the exposure of inept
government representatives who have to
clarify the simplest questions from ‘their
oga on the top’, in spite of the plethora of
blunders by this administration, reports
have been made of secret plans by a
select few in the corridors of power who
are devising a very dangerous scheme to
remain in power by using the tool of
terrorism.
Recently, reports were made of an alleged
plot to unleash a terror attack in Lagos.
The ink had barely dried on that report
when it was revealed that nine suspected
terrorists were arrested in a building in
Lagos which belongs to a state
government.
Although the state government has
dissociated itself from the suspected
terrorists arrested in its building, the
arrest of the alleged terrorists in that
particular building has fueled the
conspiracy theory that Boko Haram has
become a franchise under which
government fifth columnists are
operating to further disrupt Nigeria and
prompt a national crisis likely to break up
the country or force Nigerians to elongate
the tenure of this administration come
2015.
If these reports are true, despite the
brink of disaster from which Nigeria has
often come from, then the consequence
Nigeria finds itself in is truly pathetic and
indeed sad; very sad.
Although our country is situated on top of
a smouldering volcano that is ready and
rearing to erupt at any given moment,
some of these signs point to definite
elements within government and around
the president that are determined to
unscrupulously elongate their inhabitancy
of power while damming the
consequence of their actions.
The more they use their calling to lord
over the next cause of action to divert
Nigeria away from a future; the more
they plot and plan on how to fragment
the country using the tool of terrorism,
the closer they advance us toward the
trigger that might commence the great
explosion.
While this great explosion may just be
the end result they scheme for, do they
not care about what will happen to the
almost 160 million Nigerians already
existing under pressure? No; because they
have completely become victims to a
world where the intense lust for power
and money fully possesses its pray, so
much so they no longer bother to
camouflage their voracity, guile, and self-
serving actions. And to be able to satisfy
the worldly desires of a few, Nigeria and
her helpless children are again being
short-changed by the intrigues of those
who swore to protect them.
The amount of spin few in the corridors
of power are running in order to achieve
its alleged aim moves faster than that of
a tumble dryer. Anyone who doesn’t
comply is chewed out like a discarded
piece of bubble gum and anyone who
speaks against it is threatened, stalked
and victimized like a sub-human entity.
In the past, government officials who
tried to double deal this country by either
illegally elongating their tenure in power
through trickery, misusing their power or
milking the coffers for what it is worth
have received their comeuppance in the
most unfortunate of ways. But despite the
numerous failed administrations serving
as an example, we are again being
besieged from within by tyranny, graft
and disloyalty by a select few who carry
out secret meetings and come to secret
agreements that they earnestly, “Between
them and God”, know is not in the best
interest of the majority of people of this
country.
The power hungry packs who are
advocating desecrating the fragment of
the liberty we gained in the past are the
true enemies of the people of this nation.
By turning Nigeria into a business
venture and a power podium they have
betrayed the dreams of our past and the
hopes of our future.
By planning to disregard common sense
and behaving as if the millions of us who
have a stake in this country don’t exist,
they create and contribute to the disaster
we find ourselves in. By steering our
country for purely personal ambitions,
members of those few in the corridors of
power stand before us guilty as people
who acted to disorganise Nigeria.
If in the coming months those who are in
power succeed in bringing forth anymore
anti Constitution presidential pardons,
more anti-people and anti-Nigerian
policies or terrorism conspiracies to
further divide the country,  history
forever will judge them reproachfully as
those who were willing to pawn the
future of their children, grandchildren
and great-great grandchildren.
With decades of power mismanagement
in this country, one is compelled to
wonder whether we are fated thusly. Is
the giant of Africa perpetually
condemned to an eternity of a greedy
gaggle of few government officials who
mortgage our nation, disdain the interest
of the population and bleed Nigeria dry?
This would appear to be our reality.
If those we had previously relied upon to
take us to the Promised Land continue to
short-change and fail us, then maybe the
masses of Nigeria as a collective need to
take the requisite action into their own
hands. Our hindrance is that we are a
nation divided and in denial, we suffer
from grave memory loss and are
incredibly easy to manipulate.
People still look at freedom fighting with
suspicion along ethnic and religious lines.
Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Gwari, Shekiri,
Irogbo, Nupe, Eleme, Birom, Langtang,
Auchi, Fulani, Calabari, Tiv, Ogoni,
Igbirra, and all the other 234 tribes of
Nigeria; our struggles as humans are one
and the same and unless we realise and
embrace this, then our torture will
continue.
We tend to also fantasize that a messiah
will emerge and the seas will part open
into two in order for Nigeria to be saved.
Maybe the solution lies not within the
direction of a messiah but within the
strength of the masses of a nation that
claims one in every five Africans. If we
consider the effect of the Ukrainian,
Tunisian, Libyan, Egyptian and Georgian
peoples past resolve when the insult of
their governments became unbearable,
we begin to realise the power of a people
when they stand together as one.
Tyranny begets uprisings, when the
government’s tyranny reaches its zenith
any more than it has now and the
majority population realise they are
constantly staring at empty food bowls,
empty government coffers, rigged
elections, alleged government induced
insecurity, wicked governmental intrigue,
the situation may spew and the next mass
action may really become mass.
For those determined to flog this country
off so that you can remain in power or
spill the blood of innocent Nigerians in
order to split the nation up, lest you
forget your actions all have consequences.
Make no mistake you cannot get away
with the bad choices you make for your
nation, because history is recording
everything you do. If you sow badly in
this season, you will reap worse in
another, no matter how long it takes.
Even some of the greatest forces in
Africa; Idi Amin, Mobutu Seseseko, Haile
Salasi, once bred the radiant rule of
Monarchs. And for some time their might
nurtured their supremacy and reign over
their countries but in the end, they faced
karma and all three ended up victims of
the consequences of their actions. None
was even allowed to die in the nation he
once commanded.
Therefore, next time the ‘freemasons’ in
the government corridors secretly meet
to allegedly fuel terrorism and sow the
seed of ruin for Nigeria, they should be
mindful not to be deceived; “God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap… For he that
soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap
corruption; but he that soweth to the
Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life
everlasting.”
May God expose those who scheme to
destroy the future of 160 million people!