REFORMS
As young lads, one of the things we dreaded most was to be sent to a Reform institution. Our parents told us of the fate of bad boys who ended up in such places as caution to us to be well-behaved. In fact there was the case of the boy in our primary school who put a pen-knife to the neck of another boy but only made a gash there and did not outrightly slaughter him. The victim got well in hospital but the butcher was tried in a juvenile court and remanded in a reform camp at Torpo In the present Lagos State. Reform schools are established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. I am not sure such places still exist for correction of our juvenile delinquents of the present age.
The Lord sent a prophet to King Asa of Judah when he became king saying, "For a long time Israel had been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law; but when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them. And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands...for God troubled them with every adversity. But you, be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded!” (2Chr.15: 3-7 NKJV). Moved by these words, King Asa swung into action and instituted drastic utopian programmes that refomed the land. Judah became a force to reckon with among the surrounding nations. But King Asa went and allied himself with a heathen king against God's wish and fell from God's grace. He died of a terrible leg disease. This is a proverb for our own current leadership.
Our nation appears to have gone to the doldrums. She is swept in several directions by the wind of adversity which have rendered her delinquent and grossly in need of reformation. What I believe we need now is reformation not mere change. Change comes on its own for it is constant, but reform comes willfully. The coming change of the baton of leadership in Nigeria should be accompanied with drastic reformatory programmes. In less than 2 weeks from this day, a new governance will commence in Nigeria. Like Judah at the time of King Asa, God wants a people to seek His face, pray and turn from their evil ways so He would heal their land. The brethren can still do that In the little time left before the transition. Then God would bring us an era of reformation followed by peace, progress and prosperity.
God raised in Singapore, in Rwanda and other advancing nations reformants that transformed those lands. The foundation of the now progressive, prosperous U.S.A. was laid through a collective and corroborative reform movement referred to as the Progressive Era. According to Wikipedia, "The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s...The main objectives of the Progressive movement was eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption. The movement primarily targeted political machines and their bosses. By taking down these corrupt representatives in office, a further means of direct democracy would be established. They also sought regulation of monopolies (trust busting) and corporations through antitrust laws, which were seen as a way to promote equal competition for the advantage of legitimate competitors...Many activists joined efforts to reform local government, public education, medicine, finance, insurance, industry, railroads, churches, and many other areas. Progressives transformed, professionalized and made "scientific" the social sciences, especially history, economics, and political science. In academic fields the day of the amateur author gave way to the research professor who published in the new scholarly journals and presses...Initially the movement operated chiefly at local level, but later it expanded to state and national levels. Progressives drew support from the middle class, and supporters included many lawyers, teachers, physicians, ministers, and business people. Some Progressives strongly supported scientific methods as applied to economics, government, industry, finance, medicine".
It is time Nigerians In all walks joined hands with the government in reformative activism to tackle together the maladies that have sent our nation to the doldrums. Then God, as He has done in other lands that relentlessly mended their ways, would set our nation on the path of greatness.
olusegunisaac2018@gmail.com
The Lord sent a prophet to King Asa of Judah when he became king saying, "For a long time Israel had been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law; but when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them. And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands...for God troubled them with every adversity. But you, be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded!” (2Chr.15: 3-7 NKJV). Moved by these words, King Asa swung into action and instituted drastic utopian programmes that refomed the land. Judah became a force to reckon with among the surrounding nations. But King Asa went and allied himself with a heathen king against God's wish and fell from God's grace. He died of a terrible leg disease. This is a proverb for our own current leadership.
Our nation appears to have gone to the doldrums. She is swept in several directions by the wind of adversity which have rendered her delinquent and grossly in need of reformation. What I believe we need now is reformation not mere change. Change comes on its own for it is constant, but reform comes willfully. The coming change of the baton of leadership in Nigeria should be accompanied with drastic reformatory programmes. In less than 2 weeks from this day, a new governance will commence in Nigeria. Like Judah at the time of King Asa, God wants a people to seek His face, pray and turn from their evil ways so He would heal their land. The brethren can still do that In the little time left before the transition. Then God would bring us an era of reformation followed by peace, progress and prosperity.
God raised in Singapore, in Rwanda and other advancing nations reformants that transformed those lands. The foundation of the now progressive, prosperous U.S.A. was laid through a collective and corroborative reform movement referred to as the Progressive Era. According to Wikipedia, "The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s...The main objectives of the Progressive movement was eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption. The movement primarily targeted political machines and their bosses. By taking down these corrupt representatives in office, a further means of direct democracy would be established. They also sought regulation of monopolies (trust busting) and corporations through antitrust laws, which were seen as a way to promote equal competition for the advantage of legitimate competitors...Many activists joined efforts to reform local government, public education, medicine, finance, insurance, industry, railroads, churches, and many other areas. Progressives transformed, professionalized and made "scientific" the social sciences, especially history, economics, and political science. In academic fields the day of the amateur author gave way to the research professor who published in the new scholarly journals and presses...Initially the movement operated chiefly at local level, but later it expanded to state and national levels. Progressives drew support from the middle class, and supporters included many lawyers, teachers, physicians, ministers, and business people. Some Progressives strongly supported scientific methods as applied to economics, government, industry, finance, medicine".
It is time Nigerians In all walks joined hands with the government in reformative activism to tackle together the maladies that have sent our nation to the doldrums. Then God, as He has done in other lands that relentlessly mended their ways, would set our nation on the path of greatness.
olusegunisaac2018@gmail.com
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