Our father, who art in Abuja, Praise be thy Name for thy struggles To bring peace in Nigeria! May the Naira come to us the non-rulers! As it have come to them the rulers! Thy will be done in rural areas, As it is being done in the urban centres! Give our villages’ pipe borne water Medical facilities, tarred roads and electricity That the village youth may not abandon his farm and moved to the cities And suffocate for the sake of National development and self-empowerment Give us education that is functional That creates the climate for home-made thinkers That ambushes the culture of non-productivity and restiveness That arrests living in a lonely island of poverty in the midst of vast ocean of material prosperity That liberates us from poverty and the experts borrowing, And rescue us from living Big in borrowed Naira Living in concrete jungle of Abuja and Lagos with no light and water We ask these for the sake of National security Forgive our creeping mutual mistrust As we forgive those who daily hijack prices of fuel Leads us not into the epidemic of missing or unaccounted funds That is not clear to us And deliver us from the mysterious fuel shortage and long queues And the increasing anxiety of no garri, no soup, days We ask for the sake of national survival For yours is the power to make all the difference To move us away from days of no light, no water and no food To days that we will be proud to identify ourselves as Nigerians anywhere in the world And easily be given Visas to travel and see development in others parts of the globe That we may truly stand in brotherhood as one people with no divide in ethnicity and religious faith Forever and ever. Amen
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 12:17:09 +0000
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