Muslims last weekend accomplished one of the canons of their faith – the month-long period of fasting.
It is a period of spiritual renewal after which those who took part in it, according to the dictates of God or Allah, are expected to continue to be spiritually disciplined as they were during the period under review.
A tall order this might seem given the temptations in our everyday lives as humans in a digitalised world in which bad deeds are largely not considered iniquitous.
The challenges of total adherence to the dictates of God, notwithstanding those who submit themselves to these are expected to be righteous as much as they can even after the Ramadan fasting.
The world today is full of injustices and we wonder whether mankind has forgotten about the ephemeralness of this world and so easily carried away by its glitters.
Social media is today a location where all manner of vanity and iniquities are exhibited by both members of the Abrahamic faiths of Islam and Christianity.
Political activities have been reduced to name-calling and exchange of vitriolic underpinned by mendacious remarks.
In all the foregone, the objective is to pull our colleagues down in the most viciousness of manners. Today, defamation has become commonplace and the youth are able to hide behind the partition of social media to spread filth against men and women older than their parents.
Bizarrely, these are taking place at a time when the word of God is being spread with speed never before witnessed in the history of humanity, thanks to modern technology.
For how long shall we allow the nasty phenomenon of name-calling and lies continue to feature in our lives?
Gone are the days when news were consumed without any fear of consuming lies.
Consuming information with a pinch of salt is now the order of the days we live in.
It is our prayer that both members of the Islamic and Christian faith, including those who adhere to African traditional faiths, will resolve to work towards making our country morally clean.
Some might consider this as Utopian too ideal to be possible. We think however that, giving up without a fight as it were would be defeatist, which we should not allow.
Political leaders who provide the fodder for poisoning our body-politics belong to either the Islamic or Christian faith. We therefore implore them to let the fear of God be the cornerstone of their activities.
If such persons allow the dictum ‘God First’ to be their watchwords, we would have gone a long way in surmounting the morally bankrupt deeds of mischief, vengeance and thievery of the public kitty.
The coming weeks will see the country being treated to the political drama of the President continuing his project of removing from office a sitting Chief Justice.
The subject is one which will not inure to the interest of the country.
Anything which threatens the rule of law is something which should be despised by all cherishers of democracy and all its attributes.
Good governance is about being Godly in our management of the kitty and other departments of state so that the people will not have cause to complain about instances of bad governance. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.