For the Nigerian patriots currently working in America, it is a situation between David and Goliath. While organisations like the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON) exist to support them, the struggles remain overwhelming.
The good exists, as well as the bad, in the international religious and political scenes.
There are men of goodwill, putting in the work, the heart, zeal, and passion into ensuring that Nigeria is made great again. They have countered the corrosive act of American companies pumping money into a country that doesn't need it, on the edge of its ruins.
Yet, it does not matter whether or not Nigeria has American allies. As Rev. Thompson made clear, we need to stop believing that the future of Nigeria will be determined in America.
To root out the problem, as well as proffer a solution, he said, we must identify the set of Nigerians that need to stand up and take a stand for their nation. This includes church leaders talking out of both sides of their mouths.
Pseudo-leaders have been created to represent the Church in Nigeria, completely boycotting the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). A gross misrepresentation of what Christianity, and CAN, are truly about.
There are now "Ahabs" in church leadership, Rev. Thompson noted, the people comfortable with the generation after them dying, as long as they get to enjoy today.
Let it be clear that the primary responsibility of the government is the protection of lives and property. A government, he argued, immediately forfeits its moral mandate to lead when it cannot guarantee internal safety.
Based on this doctrine of necessity, Rev. Thompson stressed the importance of looking at the younger generation of Nigerians and teaching them some lessons.
There are two sets of people in Nigeria right now, he said: the wicked and the digital generation.
The first lesson Nigerian youths must learn, as he pointed out, comes from a tragedy in South Korea in May 2014. A ferry capsized while carrying high school students to Jeju Island. During this incident, 250 students lost their lives following instructions to remain in their cabins, while crew members and many adults escaped.
The ingrained culture of obedience, similarly common in Africa, led to those deaths. It is the same culture, Rev. Thompson warned, that implies elder and grey hair equate to wisdom.
It is important to remember that those under 35 years of age form approximately 70% of Nigeria's population.
Nigeria's youths need to be warned about the people who are trading their tomorrow to enjoy today.
The youths need to put on their thinking caps, learning from people like Anthony Enahoro, who moved a motion for Nigeria's independence at 30, as well as Dr. Matthew Taiwo Mbu, who became Nigeria's first High Commissioner to London at just 25.
These people, amongst other older patriots, have proved that age is not a limit to high achievements.
However, while some of them were patriots looking for the good in Nigeria, Rev. Thompson said the majority of that generation could be subsumed as a wicked generation.
He described them as the most decorated political failures on the African continent, a political class willing to sacrifice the lives of younger people and weaponise poverty.
If the youths continue to look at these people for a solution, they will waste their lives. We will go under a supremacist agenda and realise, too late, that men of ill will, when they gather together globally, have no respect for human worth.
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