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My Speech

Posted by Egoh Salem on 11/12/2008 10:04:55 AM |

Written by: Egoh Salem


These rhymes might be out of your imagination
It’s a new style and fashion
So sit back on your cushion and listen
Even if you are in your kitchen or eating chicken
Or maybe in this kind of congregation

Let me take you to the origination
Since the colonial administration
Everything has been a fiction
The Coup d'état and Biafrian rebellion
Threw the nation in total commotion
Then the federal government occupation
The Nigerian Army battalion
Against the defenseless Biafran sedition
Then Yakubu Gowon
And the Muritala’s assassination
Close to a petrol station
Imagine the whole lamentation
Then the Obansanjo’s Military Administration
Thereafter the Dimka’s execution
The Military operation
The military oppression
And the evil deception

Everyday on your television
Injustice and manipulation
Disrespect for court injunction
Tension and confusion
Now imagine the level of corruption
Young girls going into prostitution
Ladies committing abortion
Cultism in higher institution
Problem in the Niger Delta region
Oil spillage and water pollution
Fire and pipeline explosion
Rural and urban migration
Gradual economic depression
Disunity and division
God has to save us from this situation

We need a solution
To the social indiscrimination
Regionalization and marginalization
Miss allocation and misappropriation
In different locations in the federation

Twenty –twenty vision
I wonder if it will be a realization
Old men queuing for pension
Riggings and violence in our 1999 election
Double digit inflation

World health organization
Trying to save our medical condition
Polio and immunization
Donations from United Nations
Just to save the black nation

This is not a time for celebration
This is not the time for jubilation
We need to set an aspiration
We need to stop the procrastination
We need to stop the hesitation
And in addition
We need to take some action
Then face the reaction

We need to make a sure decision
We need to stop the vacillation
We need to act with passion
We need to know our destination
We need to have a motivation
We have to take caution
We need to take precaution
We need to move in unison

This is not a mere alliteration
It’s a soul ministration
Sit back in your relaxation
Even if you love this transcription
Let it not be your addiction
Think about the present situation

The rise of Babangidas’s administration
The fall of Abachas’s ambition
Remember Fela’s persecution
The strike by labor union

The treats from student union
Imagine the whole premonition
Like Nigerians are walking through Babylon
With fear and hypertension
Oh what humiliation

Police extortion
Rampant in every junction
Even in the police station
You see dubious negotiations
And innocent victimization

We need to save the African tradition
From western domination
We need to promote exportation
We need to reduce importation
We need privatilization
In the public corporations
Nigeria need industrialization
We need to place competition
Amongst the private organizations
We need free education
We need the freedom of information
We need price regulation

Imagine the maladministration
In the past administration
To my estimation
3 billion for aviation
Is a simple fraction
Money laundry and political ostentation
Crime and fraud in new dimension
We need salvation
We need a fresh innovation
We need a spiritual intervention
We need to learn from Thabo Mbeki’s resignation

We need to stop the wealth accumulation
We need to become a new champion
We need to fight the hunger and starvation
We need a total reconstruction
We need to offer our personal contribution

We need to write a petition
Politicians need to be guarded by the constitution
We need to call them to sanction
We need to put the bad guys in probation
We need to call them to reparation
We need to lock the bad eggs in kirikiri isolation

Imagine the chaotic situation
For young students with vision
Just to get into higher institution
If you don’t have connection
Or somebody in high position
You get no admission

Imagine the hectic traffic condition
After bad day and intimidation
You board transportation
And watch your next man with suspicion

Increase in population
The increase in reproduction
Imagine the malnutrition
By 2025 we will be 300 million

We need to face a mission
Let’s overcome the temptation
We need to stop the kidnapping and abduction
We need to graduate into civilization
Into an era of self actualization
Leaving back all the frustration
Off course with total determination

Nigerians have been pushed to irritation
We need to stop the segregation
We need to fight with desperation
We need to face our religion
We need some deep inspiration
We need to forgo side attraction
We need to forgo distractions
We need to stand at attention
We need to forgo misconceptions
We need to forgo the contradictions
We need to stop the human degradation

We’ve given the kids the wrong impression
They have gotten the wrong intuition
That Nigeria is in total commotion
We need to do the correction
We need to do the right examination
We need to build a new generation

One day Nigeria will have a divine visitation
And there will be a total sanitation
We will get rid of the poison
Loving our neighbors with passion
Treat beggars with compassion
And get rid of the frustration
Purge every secret taught and bad intentions
We need to stop the fornication
We have to face our limitations
We have to stop the superstition

But we have to show God appreciation
For his love and protection
If not for his supervision
We might be in detention
We need a silent revolution
We need to fight like a wounded lion
If we really want to see Zion