WE ARE NOT
RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO DOCUMENT HISTORY WITHOUT A TINGE OF BIAS AND OVERDOSE OF
TRIBAL SENTIMENTS; GET 36 NIGERIANS WHO LIVE EXACTLY THE SAME SITUATION AT THE
SAME GIVEN TIME TO DOCUMENT THEIR EXPERIENCES AND YOU ARE SURE TO HAVE 36 DIFFERENT
STORIES, ALL HINGED ON TRIBAL INNUENDO AND THE MORE INTELLECTUALLY CAPABLE
THEY ARE OR APPEAR TO BE, THE MORE DIVERGENT AND ADULTRATED THE STORY, “OUR COMMON
STORY”.
SHOULD ONE NOT EXPECT THAT EVERY NIGERIAN
WOULD APPLAUD ANY GOVERNMENT´S INTENTION TO TRY TO FIGHT OUR COMMON ENEMY IN
NIGERIA, CORRUPTION? BUT NO, EVEN IN THE FACE OF THIS COMMON ENEMY, NIGERIANS
ARE WAY DIVIDED, OUR OPINION ARE NOT UNIFORMED EVEN IN THE FIGHT AGAINST BOKO
HARAM, IF IT IS NOT TRIBALISM, IT IS PARTISANSHIP, RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY OR SHEER STUPIDITY.
BRING OUT 10 KNOWN
PERSONALITIES FROM THE MOVIE INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA AND ASK THEM TO WRITE A
CREDIBLE HISTORY ON THE ORIGIN OF THE NIGERIAN MOVIE INDUSTRY AND YOU WILL BE
SURPRISED TO READ 10 DIFFERENT STORIES OF OBVIOUSLY THE SAME EVENT, OVER SPICED
WITH THE USUAL TRIBAL SENTIMENTALITIES, DEPENDING ON THE TRIBE OF EACH OF THESE
10 PERSONALITIES
THE SAME THING APPLIES TO ALL OTHER FACETS OF
OUR DAILY LIVES AS A PEOPLE, NO WONDER WE ARE CLINGING MORE TO THE COLONIAL
HANDOUT OF OUR HISTORY THAN THAT WRITTEN BY AUTOCHTHONOUS NIGERIANS.
WE DOCUMENT EVERYTHING BUT FACTS IN NIGERIA,
THERE IS NO AUTHENTIC OR PATRIOTIC NIGERIAN EYE TO SERVE AS A SCOPE, NEITHER IS
THERE ANY UNIFIED FACTOR TO SERVE AS A MOTIVATOR AT THE TIME OF TRYING TO LEAVE
AN EXACT DOCUMENTED LEGACY FOR THE INCOMING GENERATION, ANY WONDER WHY THE
NATION CONTINUES TO SWIM IN MURKY WATERS, OVER AND OVER AGAIN?
