Accountability. . .
Are you accountable?
Do you take responsibility for the things you do or fail to do? Do you constantly blame others except yourself for everything that has ever gone wrong in your life? Do you take breaks from time to time to assess, appreciate and recollect those things you have done and choices you have made?
Being accountable is what many of us are not!
Being accountable is the reason most individuals and even some great nations, including our dear country Nigeria, are in despair. . .
We have collectively plunged ourselves into where we are today, especially those who have the political rights to act but fail! Those who scheme only for themselves and their wellbeing, forgetting that without the platform called fatherland, upon which their ill-gotten or even right-gotten wealth and empires are established, there will be no them or wealth or empires.
We are at threshold again, the year is speedily winding up. . . Have you taken stock of your actions or inactions? Have you appraised your choices? Do you think they are inimical to others? Have you paused for a bit along the lines to see how helpful or unhelpful you have been to others? Kindness is a legacy transmissible, have you by any means taught others either through your own actions that they can be good people by being intentionally kind to others and by also taking responsibilities for their wrongs and failures? Do we have to punish others for the wrong choices we have made by our own freewill? What kind of family do we then intend to build or raise when the basic truth is denied to our wards and offsprings? What kind of nation do we hope to build when the law makers and actionable agencies do not take responsibility for their wrong doings, policies, decisions, actions or inactions? When the judiciary fails to promote justice as should be ordinarily, except that justice is now a commodity only the rich and influential can afford while the poor man rots in jail awaiting trial for crimes they never committed? Unaccountability is when fake life becomes the real life and violation of the rights of the innocent becomes a norm in the land!
Desperation has definitely become the wings on which many evils have trended, are trending and will still trend! Caution is no where to be found. This is what happens when accountability is missing in action… when caution is just a word and rewards are not properly applied or rather wrongly awarded!
We cry fowl for wrongs done by others. Have you visited your case yet? I dont think so. Is it possible we are all in this big mess we have collectively created in our various little failings? How? you may ask? Did I hear you right? Yes! The thing is, you are as wrong as the one who committed an offence or broke a law that safeguards others when you turn a blind eye to things they do, have done, are doing or will do because they are your friends, or family or loved ones or because they are your business partners and you fear losing out on a big share of loot and spoils.
Surely, the list is endless but we are not hopeless. . . only if we are ready to turn the tables and make things right again! It’s not late to make amends, the only late will be when we refuse to do nothing about a situation that could be helped or salvaged. It’s time to choose which way to go as the year comes to an end and a new year begins. Accountability should be our guide as we take responsibility for the things we have done wrong and try to make them right again. It’s our life, it’s our family, it’s our nation, it’s our world and it’s our choice what we make of it. . .
Remember, history never FORGETS!
