CredoWriters:Wakdok,Samuel Stephen
Weep not Child
Weep not
No matter how long the river flows it must empty into the sea
No matter how high the mountain is, it can not touch the sky
Weep not child
Weep not
When we walk and wobble
we can run and reign too
when we stumble and fall
we can stand and jump too
Weep not child
Weep not
No one harvests the night since no one planted the day
They come and they go and meet us where we are
We move and leave the day behind because today will become yesterday by tomorrow
If tomorrow comes
When tomorrow comes
Thorns will give way to throne
Tears will give way to Triumph
Sorrow will give way to success.
Weep not Child
Weep not
Those who bring down the ladder will have more working holding it down
In the end like my friend will quote
Every onlooker is either a coward or a traitor
But I sometimes see the fallacy in that quote
Some onlookers will just be passing by
Sure I know we will not all be onlookers
Weep not Child
Weep not
There is surely light at the end of the tunnel
But even if there is not light at the end of their tunnels
We shall be carrying our own lights with us.
Weep not Child
Weep not.
It pays more to spend a minute of goodness than have an eternity of malice.
17052011
Monday, May 30, 2011
My Interview with Osama Bin Ladin’s Soul
CredoWriters: Wakdok, Samuel Stephen.
I was granted a sole interview of global urgency hours after The US Special Forces of Naval seals shot Osama Bin Ladin on the night of May 1st 2011 in Pakistan. The man on the world’s most wanted list for over 12 years and with a price of twenty five million US dollars. A Saudi man born in 1953 and graduated with a degree in Electrical engineering in 1979. He formed Al Qaeda in 1988 and was expelled by the Saudi authorities in 1991.
The next you will read are the words of the greatest terrorist of all times.
“As you can see I have outlived my live and it is unfortunate I had to die in the way I died. Now my soul has seen all the vain I have lived. I lived a life of terror and caused grief to the globe. But what do you expect from a person who has 51 other siblings? The family which is the nucleus of the society was missing for me from day one. If the optimum number of children to a man is pegged at 5, my family would have needed 10 fathers to effective take care of our needs. It takes more than financial resources to take care of a family. Money was not our father’s problem nor was it ours but the emotional connection was not there.”
“Though suicide bombers were our valuable assets, we only succeeded in brainwashing them that they would go to heaven. As you can see there is no heaven for them and that was why I never used my children for suicide attacks.”
“You asked why I chose to exchange my degree in civil engineering for terror engineering. I wish I had the perfect answer but I would only be a coward to blame the Americans or the Israelis for the occupation of Palestine. I would only be spineless to agree it was the devil who tricked me; the question is not why I allowed him to recruit my mind but why I became so gullible.”
“Of course the cold war contributed to all of these. If the Soviets had not invaded Afghanistan I would not have joined the resistance force there and the CIA will not have trained me if the west was not at war with communism. It was however cruel to have killed in God’s name or whosever’s name.”
“You think I feel any compunction after all the lives we took? What pains my soul the most is the souls we deceived. Innocent people we killed but more worrisome is the hitherto harmless people we turned into murders, suicide bombers and extremists. The world has known more hate than love and much blood has been spilled.”
“I have only come to realize that man can not fight for God. God is not handicapped so why would man fight in the name of God? The God who created all things definitely has the wherewithal to defend himself, but why and how will God even come under attack in the first place”
“My greatest regret is that it took so long to kill me, in these years before and after I became the most wanted man and the face of terror, I have manufactured and exported so much terror across the globe. Forming Al Qaeda in 1988 was one of the worst achievements the underworld ever had; having operations in over 60 countries is our greatest failure, because the world can never be the same again.”
“Of course poverty contributed in our successful recruitments of volunteers and turning millions around the world into fundamentalists. I appreciated wealth and affluence which is evident from my million dollar mansion that I was killed in. Education frees the mind and would have helped to dispel our influence over those innocent people we conscripted. That is why in many cases we made it inaccessible for them so we could maintain a hold on them through their ignorance.”
“Hitler was killed or disappeared on May 1st 1945; I was killed on May 1st 2011,I am sad because I was killed late, late enough to have caused so much global terror and to have trained other terrorists who will now struggle to take over me and create more havoc but better late than never. If I was not killed I won’t have seen the heaven I worked so hard to miss; now the gates of hell are opening and Lucifer is smiling because if the devil ever created a human it must have been me . I just wish for their good; my followers will see the futility of our actions and turn a new leaf”
I hope you enjoyed this very incisive interview; it took an Obama to kill an Osama. Shot in the head and buried at sea. Thank you.
I was granted a sole interview of global urgency hours after The US Special Forces of Naval seals shot Osama Bin Ladin on the night of May 1st 2011 in Pakistan. The man on the world’s most wanted list for over 12 years and with a price of twenty five million US dollars. A Saudi man born in 1953 and graduated with a degree in Electrical engineering in 1979. He formed Al Qaeda in 1988 and was expelled by the Saudi authorities in 1991.
The next you will read are the words of the greatest terrorist of all times.
“As you can see I have outlived my live and it is unfortunate I had to die in the way I died. Now my soul has seen all the vain I have lived. I lived a life of terror and caused grief to the globe. But what do you expect from a person who has 51 other siblings? The family which is the nucleus of the society was missing for me from day one. If the optimum number of children to a man is pegged at 5, my family would have needed 10 fathers to effective take care of our needs. It takes more than financial resources to take care of a family. Money was not our father’s problem nor was it ours but the emotional connection was not there.”
“Though suicide bombers were our valuable assets, we only succeeded in brainwashing them that they would go to heaven. As you can see there is no heaven for them and that was why I never used my children for suicide attacks.”
“You asked why I chose to exchange my degree in civil engineering for terror engineering. I wish I had the perfect answer but I would only be a coward to blame the Americans or the Israelis for the occupation of Palestine. I would only be spineless to agree it was the devil who tricked me; the question is not why I allowed him to recruit my mind but why I became so gullible.”
“Of course the cold war contributed to all of these. If the Soviets had not invaded Afghanistan I would not have joined the resistance force there and the CIA will not have trained me if the west was not at war with communism. It was however cruel to have killed in God’s name or whosever’s name.”
“You think I feel any compunction after all the lives we took? What pains my soul the most is the souls we deceived. Innocent people we killed but more worrisome is the hitherto harmless people we turned into murders, suicide bombers and extremists. The world has known more hate than love and much blood has been spilled.”
“I have only come to realize that man can not fight for God. God is not handicapped so why would man fight in the name of God? The God who created all things definitely has the wherewithal to defend himself, but why and how will God even come under attack in the first place”
“My greatest regret is that it took so long to kill me, in these years before and after I became the most wanted man and the face of terror, I have manufactured and exported so much terror across the globe. Forming Al Qaeda in 1988 was one of the worst achievements the underworld ever had; having operations in over 60 countries is our greatest failure, because the world can never be the same again.”
“Of course poverty contributed in our successful recruitments of volunteers and turning millions around the world into fundamentalists. I appreciated wealth and affluence which is evident from my million dollar mansion that I was killed in. Education frees the mind and would have helped to dispel our influence over those innocent people we conscripted. That is why in many cases we made it inaccessible for them so we could maintain a hold on them through their ignorance.”
“Hitler was killed or disappeared on May 1st 1945; I was killed on May 1st 2011,I am sad because I was killed late, late enough to have caused so much global terror and to have trained other terrorists who will now struggle to take over me and create more havoc but better late than never. If I was not killed I won’t have seen the heaven I worked so hard to miss; now the gates of hell are opening and Lucifer is smiling because if the devil ever created a human it must have been me . I just wish for their good; my followers will see the futility of our actions and turn a new leaf”
I hope you enjoyed this very incisive interview; it took an Obama to kill an Osama. Shot in the head and buried at sea. Thank you.
WHO GAVE THE ORDERS?
CredoWriters: Wakdok, Samuel Stephen.
I want to know who gave the orders for Nigerians to be poor when their country is rich. Who gave the orders for corruption to be the official language of governance in Nigeria ? Who gave the orders for our pupils to sit on the floor or under trees while we graduate millions to starve on the streets? Tell me who gave the orders that our pipes should run dry making our throats to run thirsty. Who gave the orders for us to dwell in darkness as our industries shut down one after the other including our textiles while the smugglers have a field day? Who gave the orders for nepotism and ethnicity to replace nationalism, for religiousity and extremism to replace spirituality and humanitarianism?
Now that they gave orders turning our hospitals into death rows and our roads into death traps. They gave the orders sending our refineries into menopause making us to depend on oil importation as they engage in oil bunkering. The bombs in Eagle square, Jos and Mogadishu barracks who on earth gave those orders? As they gave the orders to pass a N4.9 trillion budget on paper only, poverty and unemployment will only skyrocket. Who gave the orders to steal our votes at a period when we need our votes to count?
Who gave the orders for infants to be born still born and mothers to die at child birth due to poor facilities? Who gave the orders for kidnappers and terrorists to become the new faces of the country when the Police hide on the roads extorting the citizenry?
Who gave the irrational orders to flare gas and destroy the eco system at the detriment of our power plants which function below capacity due to inadequate gas supply? Who gave that order to sell our state enterprises and privatize our heritage for the benefit of a selfish few? Who gave the orders for our take home pay not to take us home? Who gave the orders for the people to keep suffering and smiling?
They gave the orders to make life difficult for the majority of the people while an infinitesimal few belch on our commonwealth. Tell me who gave the orders and what do we do with them?
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I want to know who gave the orders for Nigerians to be poor when their country is rich. Who gave the orders for corruption to be the official language of governance in Nigeria ? Who gave the orders for our pupils to sit on the floor or under trees while we graduate millions to starve on the streets? Tell me who gave the orders that our pipes should run dry making our throats to run thirsty. Who gave the orders for us to dwell in darkness as our industries shut down one after the other including our textiles while the smugglers have a field day? Who gave the orders for nepotism and ethnicity to replace nationalism, for religiousity and extremism to replace spirituality and humanitarianism?
Now that they gave orders turning our hospitals into death rows and our roads into death traps. They gave the orders sending our refineries into menopause making us to depend on oil importation as they engage in oil bunkering. The bombs in Eagle square, Jos and Mogadishu barracks who on earth gave those orders? As they gave the orders to pass a N4.9 trillion budget on paper only, poverty and unemployment will only skyrocket. Who gave the orders to steal our votes at a period when we need our votes to count?
Who gave the orders for infants to be born still born and mothers to die at child birth due to poor facilities? Who gave the orders for kidnappers and terrorists to become the new faces of the country when the Police hide on the roads extorting the citizenry?
Who gave the irrational orders to flare gas and destroy the eco system at the detriment of our power plants which function below capacity due to inadequate gas supply? Who gave that order to sell our state enterprises and privatize our heritage for the benefit of a selfish few? Who gave the orders for our take home pay not to take us home? Who gave the orders for the people to keep suffering and smiling?
They gave the orders to make life difficult for the majority of the people while an infinitesimal few belch on our commonwealth. Tell me who gave the orders and what do we do with them?
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WHY I DUMPED MY MBA!
CredoWriters: Wakdok, Samuel Stephen.
I am an ardent believer in education, at least my parents made sure I had the best I could get in terms of education from elementary through tertiary schools. Education can never be under rated, it was not in the past and it should not be in the present day because it holds the key to the future. More ever than not we live in a knowledge era where technology and science, art and culture, medicine and literature have come to redefine man’s existence. Primarily man looks ahead and hopes to be better than what he is. Education has proven to be the greatest source of white collar jobs. We grew up to know that our liberation from poverty lies in education. We were taught and told to read well and pass our exams to enable us to get good jobs and pay our way through life. That exactly is also where our educational system failed us. We were not taught to be independent but rather to depend on good jobs {created by others} which takes away our ability to be creative. We were not taught to create value but rather to become part of the value chain as employees. This made us to look down on blue collar jobs; this made us to become lazy in our minds even when we know that the jobs are not available or sufficiently available.
After going through three semesters of MBA class in Nigeria, I eventually realised I was only groomed along the traditional Nigerian educational system. More talks than action, more exams than knowledge. I sit pondering at my skills if at all I have any and none was honed out by my education. I take my shoes to the cobbler for a fee; get my hair cut by a barber, my clothes sewed by tailor and make my furniture from the carpenter. I get a mechanic to check and work on my car, a plumber to fix my water pipes and an electrician to work on my lights. I buy CDs of musicians and DVD plates of actors. I take my family to the studio for photo shots or to the pictures to watch movies. We pay the caterer for party rice or the baker for birthday cakes. We buy basket from the weavers and pay for knitted cardigans. The painter comes in to paint the stained walls while the bricklayer mends the fence. The technician works on the air conditioner and generator, the vulcanizer has to patch and pump the tyres while the DJ burns the song on a CD plate. All I do is to spend the income I earn from my white collar job as payment to others for their services. How then can I save; of course my income will always fall short of my expenditures. If I can not save how do I invest, if I do not invest how can I break the cycle? If only our education had taught us some bits of skills or vocation? If only they taught us how to create jobs and not just to get good paying jobs?
This is the time to re appraise our system of education and incorporate into our curricula the need to be self reliant, the need to depend less on white collar jobs, the need to be entrepreneurial and industrious. Students and our children must be encouraged to realise their skills and harmonise them. Specialists can help our children discover their hidden talents, most especially we as parents and guardians must help our children and wards to nourish and develop their skills maximally. We should not look at any skill as dirty or menial and therefore undeserving of our western education oriented children. The world is shifting and only those who can unlock their potentials discover their skills and develop their talents to create or add value would step into that rich future. These skills will help guarantee multiple income streams which is the anti dote for economic deprivation or stagnation.
This is not meant to discourage the pursuit of education in any way (so please do not dump your MBA, rather dump any kind of mental deceit that makes you believe education alone holds the key), but to make us realise that we need what I dub the “double strength strategy”. Skills without education limit our horizon, and education without skills makes us too dependent on paid employment. The two therefore should be pursued and attained, and if well harnessed it will be the secret to a life of wealth and comfort. Apart from the monetary value of exploiting our skills and creating commercial value, the satisfaction derived from seeing our skills/talents coming to life is exhilarating unimaginable. The art of selling is also a skill, music and sports are also talents. Painting and sculpture, comedy and acting, baking and decorations, production of hand made cards and knitting, photography and even writing are all very viable talents to tap from. Discover a skill or talent if you have not, rediscover yours if you have allowed yours to go dormant and encourage people around you to explore theirs.
As you pay others for their products let others pay to get yours too. Let our schools not only teach us to pass exams and get good jobs, let us teach and be taught how to understand, pass exams and create the jobs. We must not repeat the mistakes in our children where we were restricted to concentrate only on academics at the expense of other skills or vocations which has become the bane of our ingenuity.
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I am an ardent believer in education, at least my parents made sure I had the best I could get in terms of education from elementary through tertiary schools. Education can never be under rated, it was not in the past and it should not be in the present day because it holds the key to the future. More ever than not we live in a knowledge era where technology and science, art and culture, medicine and literature have come to redefine man’s existence. Primarily man looks ahead and hopes to be better than what he is. Education has proven to be the greatest source of white collar jobs. We grew up to know that our liberation from poverty lies in education. We were taught and told to read well and pass our exams to enable us to get good jobs and pay our way through life. That exactly is also where our educational system failed us. We were not taught to be independent but rather to depend on good jobs {created by others} which takes away our ability to be creative. We were not taught to create value but rather to become part of the value chain as employees. This made us to look down on blue collar jobs; this made us to become lazy in our minds even when we know that the jobs are not available or sufficiently available.
After going through three semesters of MBA class in Nigeria, I eventually realised I was only groomed along the traditional Nigerian educational system. More talks than action, more exams than knowledge. I sit pondering at my skills if at all I have any and none was honed out by my education. I take my shoes to the cobbler for a fee; get my hair cut by a barber, my clothes sewed by tailor and make my furniture from the carpenter. I get a mechanic to check and work on my car, a plumber to fix my water pipes and an electrician to work on my lights. I buy CDs of musicians and DVD plates of actors. I take my family to the studio for photo shots or to the pictures to watch movies. We pay the caterer for party rice or the baker for birthday cakes. We buy basket from the weavers and pay for knitted cardigans. The painter comes in to paint the stained walls while the bricklayer mends the fence. The technician works on the air conditioner and generator, the vulcanizer has to patch and pump the tyres while the DJ burns the song on a CD plate. All I do is to spend the income I earn from my white collar job as payment to others for their services. How then can I save; of course my income will always fall short of my expenditures. If I can not save how do I invest, if I do not invest how can I break the cycle? If only our education had taught us some bits of skills or vocation? If only they taught us how to create jobs and not just to get good paying jobs?
This is the time to re appraise our system of education and incorporate into our curricula the need to be self reliant, the need to depend less on white collar jobs, the need to be entrepreneurial and industrious. Students and our children must be encouraged to realise their skills and harmonise them. Specialists can help our children discover their hidden talents, most especially we as parents and guardians must help our children and wards to nourish and develop their skills maximally. We should not look at any skill as dirty or menial and therefore undeserving of our western education oriented children. The world is shifting and only those who can unlock their potentials discover their skills and develop their talents to create or add value would step into that rich future. These skills will help guarantee multiple income streams which is the anti dote for economic deprivation or stagnation.
This is not meant to discourage the pursuit of education in any way (so please do not dump your MBA, rather dump any kind of mental deceit that makes you believe education alone holds the key), but to make us realise that we need what I dub the “double strength strategy”. Skills without education limit our horizon, and education without skills makes us too dependent on paid employment. The two therefore should be pursued and attained, and if well harnessed it will be the secret to a life of wealth and comfort. Apart from the monetary value of exploiting our skills and creating commercial value, the satisfaction derived from seeing our skills/talents coming to life is exhilarating unimaginable. The art of selling is also a skill, music and sports are also talents. Painting and sculpture, comedy and acting, baking and decorations, production of hand made cards and knitting, photography and even writing are all very viable talents to tap from. Discover a skill or talent if you have not, rediscover yours if you have allowed yours to go dormant and encourage people around you to explore theirs.
As you pay others for their products let others pay to get yours too. Let our schools not only teach us to pass exams and get good jobs, let us teach and be taught how to understand, pass exams and create the jobs. We must not repeat the mistakes in our children where we were restricted to concentrate only on academics at the expense of other skills or vocations which has become the bane of our ingenuity.
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