By Austeen Anibe Otene
Man, no doubt is living in a borrowed space. That space is called earth.
Imagine that you have to travel for a while out of your home say for 5 months or less, upon return, you’ll find out that nature would have taken over the environment with grasses grown all over. Suffice to say that nature owns the earth we pride upon and we are all here on a borrowed space.
What morals should we pick out of the lines above? While we are still here, we must live up our lives to be beneficial to humanity. Display of self-pride is evident of man’s Wickedness and selfish nature and they are indeed vanity. Whatever wealth we amass today for selfish reasons, will not last for eternity.
Man is the greatest destroyer of all time. We destroy lives, we destroy nature. Man kills to eat more animals than the lions and all of the beast in the field put together does. As humans, we have even become more of risks to our own race.
There is so much hate, killings under the name of religion and politics which I categorize strongly as terrorism which remains a menace we face on frequent basis. No animal comes from the jungle to kill humans. Humans all by themselves perpetrate these evil.
Only humans bear guns and machete during elections to unleash mayhem upon their fellow humans in their desperate quest to cling on power or snatch power at every cost. Only humans become suicide bombers to kill fellow humans.
Only humans (Governors) refuses to pay workers salaries. Only humans engage in what I call modernized slave trade. A situation where the people they tend to lead and represent are subdued under tyrannical system of leadership.
As we yield toward the November 2 election in Kogi State, may we not display the wickedness and the dark side of humanity against humanity. I urge every youth not to allow themselves to be used by selfish politicians who at all cost(s) want to win an election.
If we must heal our State in November, then we must have to stay alive and safe to make that happen.
