🔁 Abutu Richard ReCircled: WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF NIGERIA?
Abutu Richard@richardabutu760441
11 days ago
“When the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable.”
These words were frequently used by the late Dr. Myles Munroe — a man who lived his best life serving humanity. He was big on purpose and believed that everything exists for a reason.
Recently, I’ve been thinking deeply about this subject. Dr. Myles’ words came to me like a revelation. I realized that I have abused a number of things in life — time, money, silence, thoughts, words, people, even my own self — all because I didn’t understand their purpose.
In the western part of Africa lies a country — populous, blessed, rich in culture and heritage — yet grossly abused by its own people.
This country has a constitution, but the laws are not obeyed.
It has wealth, yet boasts of poverty.
It is beautiful, yet full of sorrow — a country daily degenerating.
The only things our leaders care to lead are their stolen fortunes — from the nation’s purse to their private pockets. The roads they construct serve only their greed.
This is Nigeria: the most abused country on the face of the earth.
A country living without a defined purpose.
Does Nigeria have a purpose?
And if it does, what is it?
Do we even have a common dream?
Political parties have dreams — they build structures, not for service, but to seize Power — the power to debilitate anyone who dares question their ruthlessness.
A great Nigerian musician, the late Sonny Okosun, once asked in song: “Which Way Nigeria?”
That was over four decades ago — when Nigeria was barely twenty.
Why should such a song, born of lament, still be relevant today?
It’s because the country is freestyling — a nation in experiment-mode.
Nigeria has become a lab rat for colonial lords — a country without a drive, a direction, or a design.
Maybe we’ve lost our blueprint. Or perhaps, we never even had one.
So what’s stopping us?
Is it religion? Is that not supposed to be our advantage? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Is it ethnicity?
How is that a disadvantage?
Beauty is diverse. Languages, like synonyms, may be superficially different, but fundamentally, they are the same.
We are meant to complement, not compete.
What is hindering this promise from fulfilling?
Truth and justice — two words enshrined in our national anthem and our coat of arms — are the bedrock of peace, unity, and strength.
But without peace, there is no unity. And without unity, there is no strength.
The absence of truth and justice distorts peace.
Justice is blind for a reason.
Truth is blunt, not because it cannot be sharp — but because when it strikes, it strikes hard, regardless of who it hits.
Since inception, Nigeria’s justice system removed its veil — becoming negligible at best.
The law is only rigid when the offenders have no friends among the elite.
Lies now wear the coat and wig of justice. Lies sit on the bench and become judge.
We are a country being torn apart by double standards.
A first-century writer, James Joseph, said, “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” (James 1:8)
How can a nation be purposeful and confused?
If what is good for the goose irritates the gander, they cannot mate — I write in parables.
We can’t remain disjointed forever.
It’s either we agree on a common purpose or follow the lines of division and become irreversibly separate.
We cannot continue as a disjointed whole.
It’s either we become separate national entities…
Or we become a purposeful unit — a country worth living and dying for.
I am Richard Abutu.
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