Ikot nyin,
I hope you are not perplexed! It
simply means “My people” in Efik language from Cross River State, Nigeria. I
hope the month of September has been going on smoothly? As for me, it has been
a pleasant month. This month has a peculiar history in the world; World Trade
Centre in the United States was attached some years ago and we, as a family,
suffered the dead of one of our mothers. Remember, in Africa, we uphold family
ties.
Let’s do something modest today again.
Cars owners in Nigeria, especially, do forget when their various licenses would
expire. The time when all documents are complete is when a car is newly purchased,
subsequently, the renewal becomes a burden. Many of these documents do
not expire on the same day as such one might run into any of the road
and traffic regulatory agencies and therefore get penalized. Let’s
consider Preliminary versus penalty.
Preliminary
is a situation when
you have gone ahead of time to prepare all that is needed to make your
vehicle
roadworthy, insuring your house against hazards, living life
responsibility to
reduce the damage done to ozone layer and importantly, body organs.
Other ways
of getting prepared is constant academic improvement and certifications
among others. Preliminary work is usually easy, cost-effective and
strategic. It
safeguards regret and depression.
Penalty is when the strong arm of
the law catches up with one or the repercussion of reality comes. Many
organizations have suffered immensely from fire accident and they could not
recover from it because all their machines are not insured. Many cars have been
impounded by road and traffic regulatory agencies for not having the right
licenses. Many people had died as a result of illicit use of drugs or are spending
huge funds on medical treatment to stay alive. It is noteworthy that penalty fee
outweigh the preliminary cost.
Why spend good money on penalty
when you can rightly prepare? Why pay charges when you can pay the actual fee?
Why drive around panicking when you can actually be poised? Why treat sickness
when you can really be healthy? The questions are endless but it is the same
coin with different sides. Get prepared or get penalized.
I wish you a lovely week ahead.
Stay prepared