#SendDownTheRain Supplications After #EndBadGovernance, #Hunger Protests

#SendDownTheRain Supplications After #EndbadGovernance, #Hunger Protests

…Who’ll protest against drought, famine…?

Adamu Muhammad Dodo

Adamawa state citizenry, particularly those in the central senatorial zone, have embarked on supplications, invoking divine intervention against drought leading to projected famine occasioned by rain seizure.

The resolve to go spiritual in Yola, the headquarters of the Adamawa Emirate and to a large extent, Fombina dynasty, came the very day the rampaging youth, supposedly angered by hunger, using #EndbadGovernance ended their ten days protests, even though it was entirely peaceful in Adamawa – whether or not it makes a policy u-turn-milestone beyond looting.

There were however prayers for rain in some parts of Yola north and Girei among other local government areas in the state, where the protest against hunger was perhaps projected as a mere manipulation, malnourished in strategic thinking.

Someone reported that in the wanton looting affected by anger against hunger states, the participants have taken some days to end the manipulated protests with Qunut prayers against bad governance. Why Qunut if violent-looting protests not prayers would count?

Someone in response would want to be told whether or not the protests were a generic project against not just the national but also the states leadership that have also colonised the local governments’ financial autonomy without the grassroots feeling the presence of good governance, reaping the dividends of developmental, participatory democracy craftily advocated while seeking for mandate depicted in the electioneering atmosphere of 2023.

The monarchies, clerics and clergymen sued for calm against the protests, the supposedly angered youth insinuated that both the traditional and faith-based leaders were lured like opium to suppress by sermon-subduing the protests and protesters, especially in the northern part of the country where looting was envisaged.

There were lootings – public and private properties were touched; public services and private businesses were forced to close down, slowing down if not sabotaging the economy, intensifying the hunger being angered against – have the protests brought the “bad governance induced hunger to its knees?

The spiritual and traditional leaders are agreed that leadership should be prayed for rather than protested against and in some certain degree, it is the human folly and also a test of faith that ushered in the hunger as fated, for which the citizenry should remain submissive, supplicating for divine intervention.

Who’ll protest against drought and famine? Someone would ask the hunger protest and/or whether or not rain seizure could be attributed to bad governance.

The question does sound rhetorical indeed. However, the citizenry in Yola would have to go spiritual over rain seizure to tackle drought that couldn’t, wouldn’t and shouldn’t be protested against – it commenced on Saturday, the Sunday support was commendable, it could extend to other days I heard, trusting in God that the prayers would be responded to, positively too.

Having gone through the piece, if you’re in, kindly join the supplication by saying AMEEM!