🐠 THOSE WHO NEED CHANGE WILL RECOGNISE CHANGE

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🐠Ask the people of Baga in the North East of Nigeria. They are mostly fishermen but could not fish. 

🐠 Ask many Nigerians from the North East. They could not do the things many of us take for granted, e.g, they could not celebrate Nigeria's independence commemoration, Islamic, Christian and cultural festivals. Even weddings could not hold. 

🐠 They had become refugees in their own country and the government of the day looked the other way. Boko Haram insurgents had turned their normal lives into a hellish nightmare. 

🐠 For the people of Baga, all the change they needed was 🐠 a chance to be alive, 🐠 return to their ancestral home, 🐠 earn a decent living through fishing and 🐠 live close to their kith and kin in their own community. 

🐠 They do not want a pocket full of stolen cash.  
🐠 They do not want imported expired rice that was grown twenty-five years ago. 
🐠 They do not want dollars as their children went to local schools in and around their communities. 

🐠 Today, as our brave, gallant and courageous Nigerian Army continues to win the war against terror, the people of Baga who survived the carnage are experiencing the change they asked for. 

🐠 They are living a life that was not possible for them, two years ago. Here are two of them, showing off the fruits of their fishing skills.

🐠 We all must open our eyes and ears, else the change we NEED, might just be knocking on our door and we do not recognise it because we are too busy being unrealistic or looking for foreign rice. THERE'S CHANGE FOR EVERYONE.

🐠 Change is here and it can only progressively get better. 

God bless Nigeria. 
God bless us, Everyone. 
Lauretta Onochie
@laurestar

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