I discovered weeks before the weeks I went to use the ATM a law I never knew existed in Nigeria. One day I was on my way home with my mum and then I noticed a little gathering by roadside with a man in pains. It seems as though everybody was just looking and nobody was helping. So many thoughts crossed my mind and I told my mum that we should help out since everyone was just looking instead of getting into action. My mum stopped me and told me we better mind our business like we saw nothing. I was a little taken aback and then she explained to me like the wise old women in movies do.....lol.
There was an accident and just a few steps away, I saw some police officers gathered collecting money while someone was at the back dying. My reaction was epic...... Lol. A lot of people have this notion of you just don't help people because you want to help them. You could help someone and put yourself in serious trouble with the law for helping. You could get accused of being the one that caused the accident by the police and relatives or while you think you are helping someone, you find yourself in a den of thieves. She told me of different experiences people have shared and I thought about how many lives could have been lost and the people who genuinely needs help. We know how our ambulance system is so unreliable and all the other trouble with our system. I feel everything is a mess.
For once I was seeing someone who spoke with so much passion about saving the soul first and not minding what the other consequences are. Some people looked at him like he suddenly developed horns....lol while others thought he has probably lost his mind. The argument continued and all I did was listen. Before he was able to withdraw and leave I doubt he was able to convince anybody following the counter attacks he was being given and being the only one on a team. But he did a good job. After he left, there was still talk of how he was able to achieve all that without any trouble and I discovered the man in question was a police officer.
But I loved this man's enthusiasm for souls, I loved how he encouraged people and telling them to save lives and that the police were people like us and could be talked to. I don't know this man from anywhere but saying that alone made me feel we are heading for a change. We just need a few more like mind people.
I met with a group of older friends when this topic was discussed again and there was talk of how Nigeria was not like this before, how this laws started, how the whole mess was a seed that was sown a long time ago and grew to this point, the Nigeria of then and now. All I could do was sigh. From their point of view the vices were not this bad. People were not this bad and one begins to wonder when and where did it go wrong.
I wish for a better a Nigeria, a Nigeria where people are not reckless with lives, a Nigeria with less vices and more good people, a Nigeria with comfort, a Nigeria with a voice for the unrepresented, a Nigeria with less unprivileged, a Nigeria where one can easily help, a Nigeria with less corruption and more justice. The list could go on but lastly a Nigeria with one spirit, one mind and one soul.
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