On that injurious and unhelpful relationship

BY AMIRU HALILU

“Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.” – Charles Spurgeon.

Do you want to excel in the comity of masquerade’s fans? If yes, try hypocrisy or be a hypocrite. These twin brothers have many buyers in today’s world; but if anyone is doubting my claim, I challenge him to convey these inimical and uncharitable acts called hypocrisy and sycophancy to the market where materialistic association is in vogue—I mean a relationship that is created or build base on material gain, and you will realise that I have not been making an idle boast when you see how people are desperately waiting to patronise you.

In point of fact, they are the most love and moveable worthless substance that are moving so fast in occupying space in the minds of many. Both genuineness and reality have lost their meanings in this weird and deceptive era; genuineness eclipses by falseness while reality eclipses by fantasy. Nevertheless, do you really want to be a complete human being? And do you want to gain more weight and get heavier in the scale of human worth? If yes, then you just have to be a straight talker; belong to yourself, own yourself, be in charge of your conscience, control your feelings and have your own opinion over issues affecting your life and your environment. But the moment you possess these qualities—become unpliable and not easily influenced, get ready to have problem with those who want own you; own your conscience, own your emotions, tell you which words to use and not to when expressing yourself, tell you when to laugh and when to cry, tell you which issue to talk and not to talk about, and finally tell you when and how to speak about issues affecting your life.

This is the dangerous mingling that encourages false appearance and turned many slave-minded individuals into half beggars and unrepentant hypocrites and sycophants. While in the midst of their masters, they laughed even where there is no element of amusement. They can’t appear in their own dressing for fear of being starved, and completely lost their own thinking to those who have been offering them a free dinner.

These are the attributes of mostly core northerners whom attended the summit of greatness but deliberately failed to avail others the opportunity to attain the same summit of greatness so as to have sycophants around them who will always dance to their tune. These set of people want you to permanently remain a bottom feeder that is why they are not happy with those who have been working so hard to liberate others from the bondage of modern servitude. Having a clear sense of belonging is viewed by these class of people as a threat to their ulterior motives to keep on manipulating and controlling the feelings of the helpless thereby looting their brain and blocking them from knowing where the world comes from, where it is at present, and where it is heading to.

Many vulnerables have been completely in tangle unsure of where to step in and where not to; unsure of how to utilize their God giving potentials; they have been rambling on and on in dire need of practical help on how to be able to stand on their own two feet. Thus, it behoves anyone who still recalled what patriotism is to exploit the media particularly the social media to fully indulged in sensitization and public enlightenment so that these helpless and vulnerable people living in our midst can no longer be seen as ordinary spectators, can also have their own thinking and say in the society.

Kano State governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, a.k.a Gandollar’s recent cunning present a realistic depiction of the vulgarity that characterises governance in Nigeria. Where it not for our collective indifference to government’s irresponsibility, how on earth a governor caught in a video clip collecting bribe in dollars and later paraded innocent primary school children on the streets to cover up his corruption—protest against his prosecution. This will only takes place in a society which lacks awareness—where the members are not well enlightened. Those who think one should be silent in the face of injustice because of pseudo relationship, are ever ready to pounce on whoever takes it upon his/herself to criticize government’s irresponsibility. In a democratic and successful societies, men and women do not swear allegiance to uncaring and unfeeling leaders; they turn their hearts and labor to educate others and build a better society.

Society can’t grow and progress without valorous and forthright men and women who have the effrontery to go straight from the shoulder, not gardening tool, and regardless of whoever is in the cult. And those who can’t allow themselves to be proselytise and brain washed to pronounce a cow as sheep. Therefore, any society that cultivate the habit of sweeping the faults of its members under the carpet, prevent others from blowing whistle just because of nonsensical relationship, that society is a dysfunctional society.

And any society that seen truth-Sayers as a threat and categorised them as arrogants or impudents, denied them the opportunity to completely change it from primordial society to knowledge base, current and sophisticated one, that society will keep on lagging behind its counterparts. I didn’t see living stone unturned—an act of hidden the truth—pretending to be what you are not—saying what you didn’t mean as a means of having a smooth relationship with people living around you.

If you ask me, I will say without equivocation that is a hypocrisy of the highest order! But in a weird and Machiavellian era and in a misleading environment, hypocrisy and sycophancy are the precious glue that bound people together, and it is the quality people are always looking for to accept you; cherish you, and love you. This is the narrative my people and the society are peddling. Uttering deceptive statements just to pleased your associates or make them feel happy with you, is one of many greatest path to self-destruction. Let them despise you, detest you, reject you and malign you for having a strong views.

Halilu sent this piece from Kaduna. You can follow him @AmiruHalilu