I think nations are built by men and women, who acknowledge God and roll up their sleeves to work, building people and systems…

I do not think that nations are built by men and women who suspend their inevitable roles and claim to be waiting on God to do what He already commissioned men and women to do from creation…

I think I agree with Erwin Raphael McManus that while we are waiting on God, God is waiting on us…

Paraphrasing again one of Erwin Raphael McManus teachings on prayers, he said our attitude must be, ‘Lord, I will pray no prayer where I am not willing to be your solution to the problem…’

I think I cannot continue to pray for Nigeria without a genuine willingness and commitment to speak truth to power and engage my fellow countrymen in a meaningful, open, civil and sustained conversation aimed at achieving a genuine and peaceful change of our present seemingly insurmountable and harsh social, political and economic realities.

I think we are back to the banks of the red sea and I can hear God again saying to us as Nigerians, ‘why are you crying out to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.’

But are we going to respond to the voice of the living God or camp around the indicisive banks of the red sea and continue to sing the Lord’s song of freedom in a strange land?