By Lawrence Egede
People should remember that the present regime of President Bola Tinubu got into operation with the slogan of RENEWED HOPE AGENDA.
The only place where the RENEWED HOPE AGENDA is working with the evidence of things seen in action by faith, that substantiates the achievements to come later is at the Federal Ministry of Works operating in the country.
The efforts that the present regime of President Tinubu made only succeeded with the Federal Ministry of Works, especially on road construction exercises.
But all other efforts of the regime, to raise the hope of the masses on the Agenda haven't been fully achieved.
The rest of the AGENDA is like dashing people's hope, instead of raising it for survival with the present chaotic state of things.
The AGENDA seems like being sabotaged by the same people operating it. The reasons for it could be best known to them because of their lackadaisical porous attitudes toward the Agenda.
I believe that they either don't know the meaning, or that they know it but are ignorant, or that they have generated more trouble for themselves and the regime.
I believe they are having more troubles to encounter between themselves, with the Renewed Hope Agenda implementation weight of troubles they can't handle.
They compete to have the Yam and the Knife with the arrogance to decide the slices by measure, to cut out the sizes from the yam tuber for the masses.
We can't be living in utmost luxury and comfort while the masses are left comfortless, waiting for the slices of the yam not yet shared round to the beneficiaries on the queue.
Let me make a personal point of reference to my experiences with such a Renewed Hope issue, which I have gathered in the past.
In my early days of life, in the cold seasons, I suffered the effect of rheumatism, with sudden pains inside the knee cap joint of my right leg.
At a certain stage, my mother bought a pain-relieving balm or ointment called "Trouble," which she regularly applied locally on the affected leg.
You can imagine Trouble being applied to trouble with the level of the pain already existing. The trouble increased the more as the use was furthered at risk.
Moreover, the color of the balm was red and I saw red as the risk doubled the pain each time she applied it on me. But upon all the applications it did not stop the rheumatism as we then renewed the hope for the cure without any success.
Any renewed hope proves that nothing yet has been achieved as a solution to the problem at hand continues.
So, the renewed hope was not producing any positive results. It became so difficult finding any solution to the problem at hand, while the sickness lingers on yearly.
The rheumatism reappeared in all the seasons of cold weather. It was either during the harmattan periods or during the rainy season of every year.
The pains also remained with me following the regular yearly reappearance of the rheumatism and no cure was achieved each time.
When I eventually grew up to the adult stage, it didn't stop, and I continued to tackle it through other medications, with the hope of putting an end to the rheumatism sickness.
Till today, in my old age, rheumatism still comes as usual, and I suffer the pain. The trouble there is that the hope to be cured outrightly wasn't realized as expected.
I can only say it lessened a little bit due to the attention paid each time there was an appearance of the signs and effects anywhere in my body as I hoped for final healing.
But the hope for my healing was not fully realized each year without faith, the only substance of hope to cure the lingering sickness.
I can see that hope goes with faith, working in things seen to substantiate the evidence of the availability of the things not yet seen.
I saw something in the bible about faith with the substance of hope realized while trying to get out of trouble if there is a problem to solve by people who look forward to a good report.
The biblical book of the Hebrews chapter 11, verses 1 & 2, said something relevant in verse 1; "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Verse 2 says it so clearly: "For by it the elders obtained a good report."
The RENEWED HOPE AGENDA should have been made to contain the substantiation of a good report. It should buttress the point of hope for the people by faith, as the best evidence of things not seen. It should be a better way to convince people that the best thing is yet to come.
With that single conviction, the people can wait patiently for a good report to come, as expected from the renewed Hope Agenda.
But not when troubles are being poured upon more troubles and with more pains, trying to convince people to be patient for a good report not yet halfway achieved or fully actualized.
The RENEWED HOPE AGENDA headline should have been titled "Renewed Faith Agenda" as the only substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen but with a good report.
It will serve as Faith placed well in the Renewed Hope Agenda not yet fruitful, but still seen as the evidence of things hoped for while showing a good report.
It is not while showing bad report upon bad report that the Agenda of Hope be seen as the evidence of things to come, with the future goals yet to be finally achieved.
The solutions to the major problems that people are encountering have not been produced. It is just a fact that adequate attention is not being paid to the wide yearnings of the masses.
If prompt attention is being paid to seeking solutions to the problems at hand it will reduce drastically. It will be seen as evidence of things hoped for by faith, substantiating the things not seen but still to be achieved.
The achievement made on each occasion of the RENEWED HOPE AGENDA by faith is the cure that will prevent further aggravation of the existing injuries. The danger is the accumulation of more troubles for people and for the government to encounter controversies.
At this point, let us pray that the government is aware that the Renewed Hope Agenda and the effect thereof has so far generated more complex problems.
