"The individuals who neglect to gain from history are bound to rehash it."
- George Santayana
My musings at this period first go to the lives lost, to the families and companions deprived, to the harmed and to the sweeping statement of the concerned. May the souls of the left rest in peace, may the harmed recoup rapidly and may the great Lord be the genuine sofa-bed for the dispossessed and all well-wishers.
While ruminating on the "stunning" occasion of yesterday, my contemplations couldn't yet rapidly leave aside the sympathy, the sensitivity, the outcries, and so forth. My considerations have moved past these and different opinions and are centered around the causative handy substances of such catastrophes which have shockingly turned into a typical component of our national space.
Building disappointment is not another wonder in Nigeria. What is generally new is the crumple of chapel structures. Be that as it may, whether church, private or different structures, the impact and the specialist lessons of a crumple are comparable. At the very foundation of building is the trade off of building principles.
There is this disposition of compromising everywhere. For instance; where 10 packs of bond are required, five or three sacks are utilized. Where qualified, confirmed and experienced designers and experts are required, quacks and unpracticed individuals are settled for. The rundown is interminable and at whatever point went up against, the contractual workers, designers and proprietors of such structures contend that they are only cutting expense. At what hazard? Human lives!
To my brain, the Church in Nigeria ought to, be that as it may, be an alternate case. Not on the grounds that I have any deception that the Church administration is, compulsorily, populated by individuals of honesty but since I accept, as a Christian, that our pioneers in the congregation ought to have the capacity to experience the precepts of the confidence and maintain Kingdom standards which unquestionably not bolster compromising or "cutting expenses' at the danger of human lives!
The Holy Bible in the book of 1 Corinthians 14:40 unequivocally reproves that "Let all things be done modestly and all together." Not a few things or certain things however ALL things, including, obviously, the development of houses of worship and uber venerate focuses.
I can't overlook an affair, a few years prior, when a recently built working of one of the various branches of a mainstream Pentecostal church in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State was set apart by Uyo Capital City Development Authority (UCCDA) for pulverization, having abused building and ecological measures. The Pastor in Charge quickly propelled a battle of backbiting against UCCDA and the individuals from the gathering took action accordingly. I was then an individual from the congregation and I was exceptionally dismayed to hear remarks like; "In what capacity would you be able to (UCCDA) check the House of God?", "You (UCCDA) go pass on!"
Clearly, these individuals are Christians in name just who have not tried to peruse the cautions of Christ to his supporters to comply with the laws of Caesar (government). One extremely tragic thing about the Nigerian circumstance is that the administration of the congregation has not possessed the capacity to satisfy desires. Or maybe it is a similar decay that we see wherever else that we come to involvement in the alleged House of God!
It has been accounted for that the Akwa Ibom State Government has requested the capture of the contractual worker who took care of the caved in chapel building. That is a stage in the correct course. Notwithstanding, similar to the notorious excursion of a thousand miles, there are various different strides that should be taken. The temporary workers and the specialists are not to be made the sole substitutes in this undertaking. The General Overseer of the congregation who procured them additionally has a case to reply.
Despite the fact that the temporary worker and the designers should be the specialists in this matter, the down to earth reality of the staggering impact that building proprietors in Nigeria have on such classes of individuals can't be ignored. For whatever it is worth, given their hirer and proprietor of the congregation a chance to come and express his case before an open commission of request and let his blame or generally be dictated by such commission. Nobody ought to be dealt with as untouchable. No one is exempt from the rules that everyone else follows!
My earnest trust is that a test and indictment would be organized and all discovered at fault ought to be made to confront the most noteworthy conceivable approvals and discipline. We owe that much to the lives lost and many injured. Be that as it may, regardless I nurture a dread that, after starting sound and wrath, connoting nothing and in the regular undermined Nigerian soul this entire matter will in the long run be hidden where no one will think to look.
With the Synagogue Church case still crisp at the top of the priority list, the inquiries that truly trouble me as of now are: when might we as a people gain from our oversights? At the point when will these avoidable disasters and passings truly show us a lesson? For to what extent would we keep on repeating history?
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