If you collect a hundred black ant and a hundred fire ant and put them in a jar, nothing will happen. But if you take the jar, shake it violently and leave it on a table, the ants will start killing each other. The red ants believes the black is the enemy, while the black believes the red is the enemy, when the real enemy is the person who shook the jar
Mark Twain
Image own by me
The above clip explains a lot about the current situation of Nigeria. Take the jar for the nation, the ants for the citizens, and the person who shook the jar for the political leaders.
Within the last few weeks, there has been various footages of Nigerians fighting in Banks, ATM and POS stands over cash insufficiency, also at the gas stations over fuel scarcity and so on. Some other videos shows banks being destroyed and burned down by angry Nigerians. Whereas, the people responsible for these crisis are somewhere within their comfort zone, not being affected by the violence of the people.
Lately, most banks are shot down making it more difficult to access cash thereby affecting the masses, the elites have their ways of getting what ever they want, in excess if they want it. The banks affected by the violence would be renovated and the spoiled properties would be restored. The government would not be responsible for that, the banks would not take responsibility either. It is the people's money that will suffer for the fix up one way or the other.
The 2023 presidential election is fast approaching, the people are angry, some people have their ready made up plans for violence during the election. But before we take any drastic move, we should understand that the person who shook the jar is not in the jar, the political leaders who created the economic crisis is not suffering from the crisis, nor from any form of violence resulting from it.
The bank is not the enemy, the fellow man on the queue trying to get cash or fuel is not the enemy either, the real enemies are the once up there shaking the jar.
I hope and pray for a better Nigeria after the forth coming election
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
Ohhh, what a big lesson for all Nigerians and the world in generally. Ahhh, who shook the jar? I love this illustration by you. I gonna implement the illustration. Thanks