It is better for government to liberate Nigerians peacefully from their shackles than squander the chances to do so, advises Monday Philips Ekpe Just like most other aspects of national life, Nigerians move on too quickly. No matter how pressing or vital any issue is, its lifespan is largely determined by the emergence of another one. Things happen fast.
Headlines announce various subjects that jostle for spaces in people’s minds, many of which are so encumbered by the vicissitudes of daily living that they can’t afford to be further bothered by potentially more depressing stories. It’s not surprising, therefore, that the country’s independence anniversary only few days ago has gone so soon the way of the rest, especially in recent times. But we just can’t continue to slide with the vicious tide of time.
October 1, 1960 will always be associated with the day Nigeria became free from decades of British imperialism and rule. And freedom, like equality, is a fundamental human right, not just declared by many multilateral organisations and statutes but it’s actually first an innate longing of the soul. The United States of America has evolved over the years as, arguably, the world’s loudest and staunchest proponent of the concept of liberty.
Its founders were mostly men and women who literally ran away from the stranglehold of the tyrannies that had gripped different countries in Europe. Monarchies there had moved from being traditional, hereditary-based forms of go.
