By Kunle Oyatomi
The world is in a very terrible state. Tune in your radio, all you hear is disaster, crisis and conflict everywhere. Mankind is gasping, and the fear is palpable that this world may no longer be saved. We are well into the grips of the end-times prophetic collapse.

Even the incurable optimist is beginning to wonder why things are going from bad to worse. Look at the state of man’s inhumanity to man; there is a shocking escalation in brutality beyond our comprehension.

When you are done with your radio, check your television and all you see are gruesome images of deaths, destruction and human misery, the share numbers of which are already so overwhelming that keen observers of the state of the world are skeptical that, when the worst happens, mankind could ever have the resources to cope.

In the middle and far East, the world has become bloody killing fields where wars never end, and the most sophisticated weapons of mass destruction are being tested and used against so-called enemies. India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon are worst him by this phenomenon.

Then in the last decade or so, after several denials by those who imagined that there was nothing to worry over the climate’s condition, we have come face-to-face with a climatic change disaster that threatens the survival of mankind and its civilisations. Already, scientists can no longer deny that the world is overheating from below the sea, the earth’s magma and the atmosphere. The threat of a massive explosion that could sink continents, and the catastrophe which could result, can no longer be wished away.

The monsoons are here doing extensive damages all over the world; in America, China, Indonesia, India and several other countries. Heat waves across Europe and the Americas are setting off wild fires that have left their trails of destruction which, as I write this, is raging across a vast landscape of Russia in the last week or so!! Flash floods have submerged cities in Pakistan leaving over 1500 dead and over three million people homeless and in grave danger of an epidemic of water-borne diseases.

The television images of these disasters show how helpless man is in the face of “natural disasters”, or if you like, how limited our science and resources are to cope with them. And yet this is about just the beginning, as scientists themselves have warned that conditions are going to get much worse!! Originally, man tried to deny his role in causing these disasters, but there is nowhere to hide any more — man himself is the architect of the impending destruction of the world.

The religious people would say that our sins have brought this about. The scientists and unbelievers would say man’s greed and over-exploitation of planet earth is to blame; whichever way you perceive these events, undoubtedly man is at the centre of it all.

In his attempt to recreate nature and deny a divine order of things (ultimately rejecting a superlative, inimitable intelligence (a divine Being), we have used “science” to create an unsustainable imbalance that is at the core of the upheavals the world experiences today.

But in spite of this new knowledge, science is progressing at uncontrollable speed in trying to change nature in order to recreate a “new world.” However, the harder they tried, the worse the consequences.

But the tragedy of this ugly situation however, is that Africa and Africans who bear the least responsibility for this global calamity will suffer the worst from its effect.

The stupid wars that we fight here make our continent one of the testing grounds for weapons of mass destruction. and our people are dying like flies from this brutish science of war weaponry. Again we are the least prepared for the disasters that are raging across the continents and is only a little time away from our shores.

Take Nigeria for example: we are nowhere near prepared to handle the kind of disasters that have hit Haiti, China, Pakistan and the Americas. We can only imagine what level of human deaths and misery our people would be afflicted with if the apocalypse of the end times gains speed in our continent. We are not only unprepared for the disaster, we have nothing on ground to help our citizens. We are very nearly hopeless and helpless.

The purpose of governance is to provide for and protect the citizens of this country. With all the dangers that we face, is there reason to believe that the politicians in this country, as well as in the African continent are aware of their responsibilities to their people?
Dear readers, what’s your opinion?