THE RICH ARE THE POOR
By: Adegbite TaoheedIt is neither about the number of houses nor the couples of cars you use in this life that score or earn your personality the certificate of a well lived life, rather, the number of people you change their lives for good. It becomes a gigantic concern for me to think of the situation I found myself while thinking of others and that of others. Who am I to others and who are others to me?
Meanwhile, it’s worthwhile for the above phrases with underlined different meanings to approach with succinct elucidation.
I am a normal human being as many others on the street of Nigeria, should I say I grew up in the ghetto where one’s hardworking lifts his or her roughed but determined knuckles in taking of hot pap? But I won’t say specifically, because coming down to this level may seem more of exaggeration to those who mayhap think they know the in-to-to of one’s background even from afar. Though, I cannot boast of daily complete eating formation as an ordinary Nigeria, rather as at when enduring get to the peak and warrant one to save a soul. Starting from the outset of my educational career till present. I have been a regular and reverent fan of free education not because putting my father’s name or even my own sobriquet in a private school’s account was or is too expensive but the cost portray itself interestingly not affordable. But from then till hither, the fact that the pursuit still has an oily and greasy rolling bolt worth’s appreciative than debunking.
The only independence we all have in this life is to depend on one another. Why those who have no one to depend on gave me a strong and sleepless concern about what the destiny has bestowed on them. These people are the ones you found lurking late on the street, they are called to the hardest work of nature, still they earn not as supposed as a vulture. Under the scorching sun and surprisingly heavy tempest, they boast of being workaholic in poverty. Their wards are the one roaming about in ragamuffin, hopelessly with the aim of begging for food or shelters.
Upon all these, I started to digress the mountain of thinking in my mind of the cause of this poverty which wrench majority of Nigerians especially the northern part in a progressive quagmire. In the north-west and north-east of the country poverty rates were recorded at 77.7% and 76.3% respectively, compared to the south-west at 59.1% as at 2010 to 2012, and scaled up in the past two years. In respect to this statistics which revealed the poverty status of this country scaling up drastically gave another notion of over population aside from those who have what it takes to help but refuse to lend their hands to help the tearful condition on ground.
Over population in this country is fueling the poverty status of the people in the sense that, they just gave birth with nonchalant attitude of what it takes to get all these newbies well fed and breed. To curb this, numerous teeth is not usefulness, if they can’t cut and chew meat. People should be encouraged to embrace family planning rather than contributing to the poverty status of the country forming the section of people I refer to as others.
In reference to the outset of this write up and with respect to how wealthy we are in this country. The rate of the poverty entanglement tackling majority supposed to have reduced instead of holding bad record’s title till moment. Permit me to use the northern part of this country in analyzing the long-term bone of contention. The northern part of this country which is mostly regarded as Hausa states being the major dwellers of the part which constitute the highest percentage of the total population of Nigeria is second to none talking about Poverty. So to say!
However, the irony of life in this regards is that, from this part of the country is the highest number of successful and enigmatic business tycoons let alone politicians. Though, our people say: ” A wealthy man amidst six poor men is also poor. I deem it fit to disagree in this respect because of the belief that a tree can nurture as many trees as it wishes through, it’s a gradual process. So, had it been this people have been a helping hand to their people drenched in the mud of poverty; such a gradual process would have vanquished poverty by now. Therefore, because they have but refused to help, they are the ones I called “the others” ordering for poverty to bombard our nation. Lend a helping hand today and save a soul.