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BY ANOKWURU RICHARD ANYAMELE

Money is the lifeblood of society; whoever has little or none is almost dead and poses danger to self and the environment.

At mid-term, that is, by week 19 of pregnancy, a foetus kicks for the first time and a mother-to-be either feels joy, sadness, uneasy, or nothing for the stranger and guest.

A foetus ‘matures’ before the owner (spirit) steps in and takes possession, declaring it ‘my body’! Spirit’s entry and blood circulation go together; life partners who part ways when what holds them together weakens harmony. Whenever union is no longer strong, separation follows soon or later.

Body and blood are dormant until spirit enters and when it exits, circulation stops and therewith death. Spirit activates blood for its activities but blood is formed and maintained with quality foods, drinks, exercises, a good environment, and proper dispositions.

The right quantity, quality, configuration, and circulation determine healthy activities: physical, emotional, mental, and moral. The optimum blood level is ideal but the body can work with a minimum level below which crises arise. If a part of the whole is active, pulse rates rise correspondingly. For example, the brain receives more blood when it engages actively than if resting or asleep.

Some parts of the body are more active than others while some are passive. Low activity gets less blood while high activity or moderate working draws more hence the same blood volume doesn’t operate equally everywhere. When we play, eat or rest, the same blood level pulsates differently although basically the same.

Restricted flow causes stress or even distress that could lead to numbness, paralysis, or death whereas the blood level sufficed to keep alive.

The ears are passive but when attacked more blood rush in to stop the invaders. All parts of the body connect and impact one another so that even the least can make or mar the rest.

The ‘Achilles heel’ legend teaches the importance of the whole and the danger of any part hurting or bleeding.

Though foods and drinks nurture blood, thoughts and words impact tremendously.

Imagine someone is hungry, angry and another is sick, bitter and they question why them and not others! Such thoughts poison their blood and over time manifest in diseases, atrocities.

Though blood is personal, blood groups link humanity together. Each group can help its members as a matter of choice. Thereby doctors boost, moderate, and effect positive changes with efficient blood management. Ultimately, a person’s blood can make the difference between life and death for another!

Blood is to the body what money is to society!

Blood is activated at a stage in the body’s development and likewise, money should be activated at two vital points.

People learn physical, mental, and moral fitness but not financial health. Training body, brain, and mind without financial input and training leave a yawning gap.

In the first half of pregnancy, a foetus is dormant. With blood circulation, however, it starts exerting self in little jerks, learning the ropes!

Humans struggle for freedom; freedom from undue restrictions, taking advantage of or hurting others. Everyone needs support to learn and earn freedom or risk victimisation one way or another.

Children sometimes want to choose their food, dresses, etc, and need enablement to do so. It is not freedom from parental control/guidance but the natural urge to express individuality and cultural sense of responsibility which must be learned either gradually, the hard way, or never!

What child would not want to give parents or friends presents at birthdays, for example? But without money, they can’t. With some money, they make sacrifices and pick what they would be proud of.

Living and or making money entails give and take and must be learned, nurtured. Empowerments separate humanity into free and dependent; haves and haves not.

Nature protects and wants children protected. Hence child poverty is a crime against humanity. Societies that fail to protect children and women especially are dead for real.

Minors cover six to 17 years old while adults start from 18.

Nigerian children will get N5000 monthly and Americans, $500. Paid four times yearly (once in three months) the youths therewith learn to plan and cultivate discipline.

For adult Nigerians, N250,000 each once in two years and Americans, $25,000 marks new dawn: a strong foothold to strive on.

Who foot the bills; where do the monies come from?

Payments are earned on investments; not free, borrowed or from taxes. Adults invest N8000 or $800 as may apply and minors half the adults’ rates. Modified to individual states, the scheme works globally.

N250,000 for Nigerians and $25,000 for Americans favours the latter more? No! No two nations are the same or equal. Different body weights, different blood volumes!

Blood levels are stable unless something pushes up or down. Similarly, money grows with increased velocity or drops value if dormant.

One million naira changes hands once daily gain little but exchanged twenty times gains more. However, money also rises and falls despite trading fast. Why?

Speculations cause rise and fall whereas science is different, consistent. Speculations and science are two worlds apart.

Many made it by hard work and many worked hard also but never made it. Decades after the slave trade’s abolition, masses including children toil and enrich others through slave labour, exploitation.

Spirit activates blood to work therewith. Driver and vehicle and no fuel are as spirit and body and inadequate blood: useless, paralysed!

Worldwide, people either have or gain some value before they can give or add value.

Blood transfusions help many survive otherwise threatening conditions by receiving similar blood types. What does it teach us?

Nations can make a difference with universal empowerment. The world’s greatest assets are human but poor masses are worthless, useless, and largely nuisance.

There is empowerment and there is a pittance. Pittance is not empowerment. The half loaf is better than none depending on the size of the loaf. What kind of doctors transfuse patients with blood deficiency a quarter or half-pint of blood and feel great – that the patients are doing fine!

Nigeria, the poorest nation on earth today has no business with poverty and won’t get over it with a pittance. Poverty depresses, pushes bad thoughts, lifestyles that nurture all manners of evil and kill creativity.

Some rose above poverty singlehandedly but many got stuck and bound their unborn generations also when lifelines, not pittance would have made a difference.

‘A New York attorney/stockbroker visited a psychiatrist. Since childhood, the fear of someone hiding under the bed to hurt him has persisted.

‘It’s the mind,’ the psychiatrist said. ‘Ten months should suffice to clear it. Twice weekly sessions, $200 per session is recommended.

Saddened by the ten months waiting time, he confided in his Ethiopian colleague and friend.

“Here is a deal! Buy me lunch and I give you the answer,” she said.

Disappointed because he expected her to show empathy, he however said Ok.

She orders rice, chicken, and banana but he orders water.

“Don’t spoil my appetite! Call the supplier or dismantle the bed yourself. Lay the foam on the floor and dress it. That’s it; that’s all!”

Sour that he missed something so simple, he sighed with relief, pushed $200 into her purse and left.

Poverty is expensive, contagious. No victim wants it to last a day longer than necessary. Over seven hundred million carriers make poverty pandemic hence vaccine is urgently needed!

For years, environmentalists warned about climate change but detractors called them wailers crying wolves where there were none. Now, wildfires, floods, quakes, and hurricanes are raging and increasing worldwide!

Ten percent amassed 90 percent of global wealth. Some world leaders declare inequality unsustainable but free-market enthusiasts insist business is business.

Means of exchanges, blood, and money are alike and yet differ. Blood is produced in the bone marrow but money can be made anywhere. Poverty is not so bad; people live with it but blood must be everywhere or death calls. No!

Masses without money or their little vanish into thin air are dangerous to society.

First, farmers and merchants made money followed by industrialists and manufacturers. Now, innovators are blowing up old ways of making money.

Making money is in everyone’s interest; a game all should play but some people are just fans while some are benched for good!

Scientific making money is a fintech innovation that allows everyone to play and wins the minimum to get along or get started.

Vaccine against the world’s oldest and deadliest scourge, tests are needed to ensure the efficacy.

Give 100 million Nigerians N20,000 each month for a century won’t end poverty. Let 100 million get N250,000 each once in two years and the impact will show by five years because one is consumed; the other is producing income.

Poverty can end globally in a decade at a cost everyone can afford or helped to pay the due share.

Anyamele is a journalist and the author of ‘Brave New Mothers’ and ‘Democracy For All’ and wrote from Lagos. Email: [email protected]