Akwa Ibom
State has finally become a mega city with everybody growing impatient as
features of a mega city, a land blessed by peace and unity with funerals raging
in almost every corner, but the population has still outgrown its major detractor
which is death. As I watch the young men mix about, I wonder if ethnicity will
ever tear them apart? Or if they were ever divided once? Akwa Ibom is a land
blessed by God and here peace speaks louder than the din of the commercial
keke's that ravages the tranquility of the humid streets. I wonder aloud if
they will be divided if politics comes again, or will people be ripped off
buses to be thrashed because their tribes didn't allow other tribes to campaign
in their locality?
If i
am to question without prejudices, how correct can I be? Akwa Ibom is a land of
emotions with sober men watching and protecting the peace that our fathers gave
to us as our inheritance; if I am thinking aloud, I wonder who is already
scoffing this idea or this article, already I can see faces smiling, others red
with passion, all am trying to say here is simple, I am a lover of PEACE, i
love my state.
Recently
my state has been ambushed by population outburst that threatens the peace I
bath in everyday; I am not lazy, don't even think about it, trust me I've been
to states where some people literally live their lives in molue or buses as
they ply their daily means of livelihood, but in my state its rather a metaphor
that very soon we may be living there because that is other alternatives of
living in a mega city.
Akwa Ibom
I love you, I am happy, I am from Akwa Ibom state and I would have regretted if
my parents were not from Akwa Ibom and I came to live, leaving here when am grown
up would have been traumatic and a harsh nightmare I wouldn't love to wake up
from. I am a son of PEACE, an ambassador of eloquence, a tempest of
development, a flood of substance that Nigeria is bathing in. Akwa Ibom is like
the garden of Eden blessed with independence from the world.
Anywhere
I stand as an Akwa Ibomite, I am sure that in a crowd of billions, a million is
envying me; I believe in its love, I believe in this land not because I am a
believer, but I believe in its ideals, I believe in what it has offered to the
young, old, needy, poor and the less privileged in our society, even to the
Almajiris....yes I believe it!
When I
stand in the street and watch, I see all the tribes of Nigeria moving about
freely with no mockery of tribe nor kin, how I wish my country was like my
state! How I wish I could walk the streets of my country without fear of any
religion, without fear of been uprooted from my spot by a piece of shrapnel of
a bomb that just exploded at the corner of the street or been slaughtered by a
group of maniacs who thinks that children is the shield they use to wage their
sabbatical war, I wish I can walk the streets of my country without fear of
IEDs that was constructed with fertilizers that poor farmers should have used
to increase their yields! But No! It is used to harvest bodies all in the name
of Religion! That speaks the same PEACE that my state speaks!
And I
ask have I not known peace? In my state? Or have I not tasted the fruits of
peace in my state? Because in my state I sleep with both ears shut and not with
my eyes snapped open at every noise that passes the street! I love peace and am
not ashamed to say it, if I say this, I hope I won't start another protest because
if I am to say this, it must be for peace of my country! Let nobody be deceived
that when a man is killed on the temple of religion that the Almighty who
created that spirit, body and soul is smiling or rewarding such acts with
either imaginary or perceived rewards! Regardless of who is killed!
I love
peace and I want to enjoy such serenity my brothers have been robbed by troubled
and broken people and i add finally, my brothers if your environment is
hostile? You are always welcomed to Akwa Ibom State my first love!
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