Let The Noise Go Beyond Social Media
By Adeniran A.A
In view of the last address of the nation by President Jonathan, I am convinced beyond reasonable doubt that having an iota of hope in him now will be the most foolish thing to do on earth. I thus want to implore all fellow CCOA (Collective Children Of Anger) to please let’s direct our efforts and anger in ensuring a positive change; orchestrated of course by us.
Our parents’ generation has failed us, and we are already failing our children. But God forbid that we should fail them completely! Most tweeps have been saying we are just ranting on twitter, that nothing will change from just ranting online, that we need to do more than rant, that we need action.
I think they are right; nothing will sincerely change from mere online ranting. But I have being thinking about what can be done differently.
I realized that the percentage of those of us ranting here online is a drop in the ocean when juxtaposed with those who will really swing votes at the polls. Serious grassroot liberalisation is needed all over Nigeria. People at the grassroot are still awaiting a Messiah. We need to sensitize these people and re-sensitize ourselves. I was chatting with my friend on BBM a while ago and he was reminding me about the level of corruption among our youths. He wanted to know if the change I was implying could be achieved with this same set of young people. That was when I felt a lot still needed to be done in sensitizing our youths: both the so called educated and most importantly the uneducated ones out there on the streets.
The determination of the youths is what is needed to fight this enemy of the society called corruption. And we need to raise a huge data base of youths to achieve that. We need to let the apprentice in the mechanic workshops, the tailors, shoemakers, Danfo drivers, Okada riders, butchers, the market women, traders, know what we collectively stand for. They all need to be carried along. We cannot do it alone. We need to enlist an army of people needed to take back our country.
Something serious needs to be done– needs to be put in place before the election period. We need to educate people beyond the social media. We need to begin kicking asses–and hard!
It is we, the CCOA on social media that can champion the course. We cannot afford to look up to the mainstream media as it has been bought over and we need to get across through other channels.
To go about this, I suggest that templates of messages to pass across should be made. We are agitating for change here because we are aware of what is going on in government circles. Most people don’t. Let us make the information we have also available to other like minded folks.
These information can be designed into templates, uploaded on various known blogs like Ekekeee, omojuwa, etc. It should be designed in a manner printable in pamphlets to minimize costs. It can be in different languages but with the same message. Poster templates can as well be made by those who can still afford it among us.
Then everyone who is dedicated to change in Nigeria should see it as a duty to print and distribute same to these people. A copy can be printed and photocopied. Of course, it has financial obligations. A sacrifice of like #500 per month is not too much to make for our country. We spend more than that sum on girls, parties and the likes. Someone needs to take responsibility. We all have to take responsibilities to move this country from this tortuous level.
The information or message intended to be passed across could be made in series. Each individual should ensure that he gives out 10 of such pamphlets per month. Let’s paste them on school notice boards, mosques, churches, bill boards, road sides, let’s distribute them while in the Danfo, BRT, mass transits, school buses, garages, car parks. Let us get our own campaign started now! These people (thieves) are already mapping out strategies on how they are going to continue enslaving us, but we are yet to set out plans concerning how we will free ourselves from their shackles.
2015 is almost here, the fight is for all of us. Let us all contribute our quota to ensure we achieve the change we need and crave for in this country.
I cannot start this because I don’t have a well publicised blog neither am I influential, but I am sure if this campaign is supported by the so called social media elites, we will reach across to more youths beyond the walls of social media. We need them. We need to back our rants with actions. Let’s make the noise more audible on the streets; let us shout louder. Let’s bring down the roof of corruption and bad leadership with a scream on the streets!!!
The revolution we seek is not an event, it is a process. Let it begin; and now!
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I will like to use this opportunity to congratulate the Ekekeee team on the one year anniversary of Nigeria’s best political blog and also to congratulate the blog’s ‘Don Jazzy’, my brother, Chinedu Ekeke on the occasion of his birthday. You are a blessing to this generation, and “The UpNEPA generation and the memories of Biafra” are ample testaments.
The writer is on twitter @mrbhiyi (Adeniran Adebiyi
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