OUR ROLE MODEL
The most infinitesimal of all; full of
social specialties and with mysterious building capacities and such coalition:
“The Social Insects”.
This special group of
insects, the ants caught my attention one fateful morning, when I went into the
wild, walking down the landscape, and appreciating nature. There I found a
gigantic structure, an edifice indeed yet reduced to nothing by the simple
name: “Ant-hill”.
In its simplest form, an ant-hill
is a pile of earth, sand, clay, pine needles or composite of these and other
materials that build up at the entrance of the subterranean dwellings of ant
colonies as they are excavated. Some anthills could be as large as 100 meters
in diameter, at their base.
Still gazing at the
ant-hill, I found a little ant dragging a large piece of groundnut into the
hill. This got me thinking: “What determination, what selfless service!” But
the piece of groundnut was bigger than it, for crying out loud!
Out of curiosity, I came
back the next day with an axe, just to destroy the ant hill and get to the root
of this edifice. As a matter of fact, an hour passed and I had not torn down
this structure built by a set of animals whose largest size is not more than 2
centimetres.
Let’s not talk of their
tight security system! I went through hell when their soldiers launched
unpredictable attacks on me.
This taught me the power and
outcome of unity. Because of their unity, the little sizes of these ants did
not count anymore as they dealt with me, not withstanding my giant size. If in
an hour, I could not destroy what they built, with all my mental and physical
skill combined, then imagine how formidable we would be in unity.
Even God saw the power of
unity in people way-back, when they decided to build the tower of Babel. No
wonder He said, “Go to the ant thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise”.
With unity, we can build
Nigeria to be a true giant of Africa.
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