WHO'S TRULY SERVING WITH HEART AND MIGHT?

'To serve with heart and might'. I become so wary and  conscious, whenever I'm about to pronounce and sing this part of the national anthem.

I am sure so many of you, consciously or unconsciously get wary of accentuating this obviously undeserving allegiance.

Often times, I questioned myself rhetorically, why should I pledge my unalloyed allegiance to a sorry state that care less about my class?

What exactly in this nation deserves the sincere fruit of my heart and might? Why should I be blindly patriotic to a nation that relegate me to a subservient citizen?

Sometimes ago, I read a story of a Japanese school girl; a government train line that ought to be halted for lack of patronage, continued to function because it serve as the only route through which the young lady can be conveyed to school daily.

The train had to be rescheduled and personalised her service to serve the young lady, as she was only the passenger. And the train line tarry till she graduated and was shutdown immediately afterward.

Why don't I deserve such a treatment? Why must I be treated differently? Why must I suffer unjustly and become a subservient because I belong to a perceived inferior class?

Even though it's a widely acceptable hypothesis that all animals are equal, but here, some animals are more equal than the other.

Your class greatly determine how much human you are. Your life value is weighed on the scale of your affluence and influence.

And the most provoking fact I find really hard to come to term with is, the oppressed, who fall on the lowest ebb of the class hierarchy are the champion of the segregation drama.

Humanity is terribly subjective and relative in this part of the world. Such things as empathy, sympathy and kindness have lost their dignified credibility.

You can not get it because you are human, you only get it if you fall in the class of the elites. Elitism has completely ruined what is left of human feelings.

Few months ago, when the sudden death of the son of one of the highly venerated politicians in the land littered the social media, then, everyone despite political differences came out to register their condolences with the bereaved.

The atmosphere was mournful, death was then the most wicked of God's creation. Oh what an incomparable pang of pains was registered on the heart of many? The humane in almost everyone was indeed awakened.

In another scene, at the close of the previous year, another sorrowful and pathetic accident of the son of the first family of the nation infiltrated the digital space.

The whole nation felt the angst, several individuals preached empathy to the heart of many political enemies to consolidate with the first family.

Well-nigh all the well-meaning power brokers, most especially the elites and potentate (that were allowed)  in the land went visiting the hospital bed of the son of the president.

There was also commitment from several quarters to foot the bills for his treatment and recovery, so much that the presidency was begging to allow the family handle the situation.

Am I condemning this act of magnanimity and emphatic generosity? Of course not, we are all humans, we have blood running in our veins and arteries.

The moment we lose those virtues of humanity such as objective sympathy, empathy and compassion, then we are on a bizarre deterioration to the state of mere animals.

Then what am I insinuating, several of the consolidator due to the bewilderment of the virus of selective amnesia had forgotten that it wasn't just the president's son that was involved in the power bike accident, there were others, but who cares?

The others involved are less human than the son of the most potentate authority of the land.

Now, our Benue brothers are been terrorized and massacred by some vicious Fulani herdsmen.

Those families envisage a wonderful new year, they never planned to die, absolutely not on the altar of genocide, they were happy living until some demonic and cruel individuals invade their lands and abruptly terminate their life.

Everybody is silent, except, of course some stupid and heartless political opponents  and ethnic bigot that are using the situation to score cheap points.

It's an intentional denial of truth to believe the presidency is faithful to the oath of national security and the vow to protect the citizens lives and properties on the issue .

In the same vein, it's perfidious to the ethics of fairness to assume Nigerians are not biased with their judgements on the same issue.

We always treat people without class disdainfully and lackadaisically. They are neither influential, so who cares whether they live or die?

If the same genocide was perpetrated and a son or daughter of an elite or potentate is involved, then, it's a different issue.

The nation will feel the pains of losing someone to the cold hands of death and everyone will rise to seek justice. Then, I ask, who did this to us?

What kind of sleep have we fell into that this ample decadence crept into our mentality or is it intentionally?

Our life is valued equally before the creator. My book of faith told me that the same fate await the poor and the rich - they are both bound by mortality.

We all have that debt to pay, no one shall escape it. Then, we should be objective in our conducts.

We should cry and mourn with the bereaved and celebrate with the jubilant no matter their affiliation or differences. We should employ an ecumenical sense of justice and not been selective and parochial.

I sincerely sympathise with the family of bereaved Nigerian in the Benue massacre.

God will grant you the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable lost. Words are absolutely not enough to cleanse the thought from the mind, but we are helpless in the hand of fate, our life start and ends as dictate by Him who sit above.

If there be any opportunity to preserve what's left of the integrity of this incumbent government and to clear the clouds of obvious sentiments and monomania by the president, then it is now, the government should rise to give justice to her murdered countrymen and the safety of the entire nation from these horrific terrorist must top the priority list.

Oluwashayo Taiwo 
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