LIGHT UP NIGERIA

Hi pple,
Its been a while i got inspired to write other than my daily life but 2 days ago I was lit up by a Campaign going on right now in my Country NIGERIA, its called Light up Nigeria.
So here i was on twitter going through the Time lines and kept seeing this "#lightupNigeria" on timelines of Amara (bubusn), Eldee, BankyW, my girls chika and Dammy , at first is seemed cool and i was wondering what they were on about till i kept reading Eldee's timelines and i got real curious and started reading through.....I was moved by how these artistes and other youths home and abroad have decided to speak and be heard, and so here i am joining the movement .
Light up Nigeria is a movement which has been created by and with the youths of today and would be - leaders of tomorrow to be heard by our leaders of our Electrical problem in Nigeria. Its alarming the rate at which this problem gets worse every year, a country that has everything yet can boast of NOTHING, its unacceptable and needs to be clipped NOW.
How can we wake up everyday to what I call Noise and not Sound because Sound is pleasing to the ears so ill use NOISE of generators everyday as we get ready for work, get to work, come back and still have this same NOISE disturbing the peace of our Enviroments? lets not get started with the Pollution it brings along with it.
I remember through the years when Electricity was not luxury but a necessity, we could predict when NEPA as i recall would give back Electricity, then it turned to sharing of Electricity then on the high brow Victoria Island, which used to be a residential area but now turned Commercial center with Banks and companies taking up every piece of land they can lay their hands on. So as a resident of V.I you have your Electricity taken from morning while companies function and by 6 or 7 pm Residents start to enjoy Electricity again now tell me what kind of life is that?
We have our dear Mainland residents with Ikeja being the center of all mainland areas counting days when they would have Electricity, i say its detrimental to one's state of mind, how do you account for 2 days of light and have 3 days called off day or better yet you go through places like Agege, ogba and see Electricity in the form of what is called Low current , a candle stick would burn brighter, while areas like Ikorodu, Ajegunle, Mushin, have resolved to NO ELECTRICITY this is unacceptable, how do you expect human beings to function like this? People living in this areas have not had Electricity for months and have no means of getting generators so they more or less live remote lives this is UNFAIR.
This is me looking through the years and we just accepted it and said it would get better but alas its gettting worse, Some of us travelled abroad to further our Education, look for greener pastures and go back home, now we are home and its worse off than we left it, Corruption is at its peak, Banks cant account for money loss, employment still lingers as a cloud over our heads, Education is on halt because of the strikes, Power still has not changed hands it keeps circulating round the same set of greedy people from when we were in high school to college to working class? Then Electricity is as good as no longer in existence, GENERATORS are the order of the day..............
As i recall generators were a luxury then now In the year 2009 its a NECESSITY, so now tell me how the crime rates wont multiply or how frustration wont set into the lives of fellow Nigerians?
We hear it all the time Nigerians are angry people but tell me why wont we? This life we are subjected to here by our leaders is not right, its demoralizing and certainly NOT ACCEPTABLE, NOT ANYMORE.
I am saying all these so we can think back and decide what we want to accept for our future, if it would motivate you enough to want to do something then so be it, if it angers you to get motivated so be it but please we cannot sit and just keep talking amongst ourselves, we need our voices to be heard, the first step is the vital one and we have made a good move by getting involved. Our parents have gone on too long with this predicament and we the youths and future of tomorrow need to deal with TODAY for a better TOMORROW for the ones coming behind us.
I have joined the movement, and i am spreading the word this is not just for today, its for future causes as well there is a lot to fix and this would be a starting point. I am grateful for the founder of LIGHT UP NIGERIA and the various artistes, actors, actresses and individuals who have gotten involved, the humble gesture of using your fame and voice to be heard is definitely one God would reward you for. Be proud of what you are doing because you are following in the fotsteps of great men like Martin luther king, Abraham Lincoln, the various celebrities like George clooney, Bono and many more which i believe we all know, Leave your mark in this world the ones after you would never forget.
We are proud of you and we are behind you, God bless our voices and may we not only be seen may we be heard...#lightupNigeria
To be a part of the movement join and get involved www.lightupnigeria.org
If you are on twitter always end your text with this tag #lightupnigeria
For facebook users join the group LIGHT UP NIGERIA

God bless
Peace & love
Mola '09