The most difficult challenge that Nigerians face is not the
hegemony of the Hausa Fulani ruling class but the ignorance and slavish
mentality of some of those from the Middle Belt and the south that they have
conquered.
Ignorance, cowardice and delusion is the language and
practice of slaves. And it is typical of a slave to despise and hate those that
seek to liberate him from his slave masters and his chronic bondage.
This is because the liberator or, if you like, the
deliverer, reminds them of their slavish and pitiful condition and continuosly
urges them to try and break out of it and rise up.
The slave either accepts, rises up and follows this counsel
with joy, pride and hope believing that God has finally answered his prayer and
made a way for him and his loved ones or he violently rejects it and pours
venom and contempt upon the one who offfers it.
The question the latter asks in their hearts is “who made
you our deliverer?”
Or “are you any better than we are?”
Or “we know you very well and you are not fit to be our
deliverer or to liberate us”.
They cap it all by saying, “who the hell do you think you
are anyway?”
They forget that the Holy Bible says “God uses the foolish
things of this world to confound the wisdom of the wise”.
God always uses those that humans view as the most unworthy
as his weapon and tool for deliverance.
The Bible is replete with such examples from Jeptha and
Samson to Paul and Jehu.
If the Lord chooses to so do He can use a madman, a village
idiot, a comedian or even a monkey or a donkey to liberate His people.
The vessel or individual He chooses to use, no matter how
unfit that person may appear to be to the human mind, is His choice and He
alone knows why He made that choice.
Maybe He did so because He alone sees the heart of that
person as was the case with David, who was an adulteter and a murderer or
Moses, who was a killer and fugitive.
They both committed the most heinous crimes yet the Lord,
who is perfect in all His ways, still chose and used them to deliver His
people.
That is God’s way and it is marvellous in our sight.
They say that the most difficult slave to liberate is the
one that has been so stripped of his dignity and sense of self-worth and that
has been so subjugated and broken that he does not even know that he is a slave
anymore.
Instead he erroneously and honestly believes that his
pitiful condition is somehow deserved and that it is his lot and due in life.
He has been subjected to the most damaging and destructive
form of mind-control and consequently he virtually lives for, and ONLY for, his
master and to serve that master’s interest and do his bidding.
Such people are suffering from a broken spirit. They have
lost their souls and have been blinded by their ignorance.
This is tragic but sadly it is the bitter truth. These are
the type of people that would willingly fight and die for their slave masters
in a war of liberation rather than to fight for their own freedom or on the
side of those that are trying to liberate and free them.
They are the type of people that would support and vote for
those who seek to continue to enslave them in an election rather than for those
who seek to deliver and free them from bondage.
And sadly a few Nigerians from the south and Middle Belt
suffer from that terrible mindset and affliction.
The greatest source of opppsition that the liberator and
deliverer gets is not from the Hausa Fulani slave masters of the core north but
from such people.
I have never heard of a core northerner who has fought for
or sided with a southerner that wishes to dominate and enslave him and his
people but I know many southerners and Middle Belters that have supported,
voted and fought for core northerners who seek to enslave them and their people
and keep them in bondage forever.
It is a pitiful thing: a great evil under the sun and it is
left to the rest of us to try and open their eyes and enlighten them. Freedom
is not a curse: it is a precious gift from God. And ALL of God’s children are
worthy of it.
May the Lord help us.
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