From A Seenager’s Corner _ Let Us Walk The Walk _ Part One

Fellow members, now that we have Talked the Talk, here comes the time to Walk the Walk. We can’t start to Walk the Walk, until we have removed the logs in our eyes, that we may see clearly to remove the specks in our neighbours’ eyes. And these logs are our Greed, Corruption, Shamelessness and Heartlessness. Like my brother Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun; it is only old things happening to new people.” The beauty of our situation lies in the fact that we have all the funds with which to revamp our economy. And it is sitting all around us. All we need is the balls to gather the funds, and judiciously use same to revamp our economy. So fellow members, it is no use continuing to deny how religiously ignorant we are, how corrupt we have been or how much we have looted and carted away; because all these have been facilitated by some unfortunate employees, friends and or relatives.

Over the years, we have all had that the unfortunate sober moments when you go to receive a friend/relative/colleague who have earlier joyfully flown abroad in first class, but now being delivered to you as cargo. And the other moments before a coffin is covered, when you look at the corpse and don’t see it wearing that one-in-town expensive wedding ring, the diamond rimmed gold wrist watch and ostrich leather shoes. And suddenly, you remember that neither you nor members of his or her family know some of his or her bank accounts. Though you have always mouthed the fact naked you were born, and you can’t take anything with you; you realize how much you have failed to live it.

So now that we have seen, done and enjoyed it all, here comes the time to kill and bury our Greed, Corruption, Shamelessness and heartlessness that we may be born in Contentment. Let us appreciate that it will be better for us to clean up ourselves, rather than allow others to come and forcefully clean us up. We know that our salaries and allowances don’t make sense in any sane economy. So let’s review our salaries and allowances, stop receiving pensions while being gainfully employed and refund all stolen and looted funds, and their products in property and cash, both at home and abroad. Why should we receive extra pay for serving pay for serving on certain committees, when we are still working within our same 24 hour day? When all these changes would have been done, we shall then have the moral justification to start cleaning up the society, and proudly welcome The Change We Need. In Part Two we shall say, “Now, put your money where your mouth is.”