NIGERIA! IS IT UNDER LIVE MACHINE OR DEAD ALREADY?

          As citizens of our dear country (Nigeria), we cannot fold our hands to pretend all is well, and we cannot keep our mouth from rebuking the government that was meant to protect our country economically, socially and otherwise, yet it's that same government that had promoted the hardship, poverty and sufferings on the part of the electorates who voted them and secured their mandates into power. This is beyond the time when people were ready to pay deaf ears, chose to be lackadaisical over the man-made adverse situation facing their people or dance to the gallery due to sycophancy and what have not.   

Truth must be told, hence it's one thing that sets the difference from what is right and that which is wrong; and time is that most valuable asset, which prepares the present for the future. I wrote these few lines of my experience in my country, Nigeria, a country I have stayed all my life; hoping of a future so bright and neatly secured for the posterity to enjoy.

Generations had come and generations had gone in a rush, but we are all wishing to live in a nation where security is of utmost paramount to the socio-economic well-being of the people, a country, where education is held in high esteem, a united nation, where peace and tranquility is geared towards enhancing the empowerment of its citizenry, a country, where roads are made to stand the tests of time, for motorists and other road users to enjoy. As patriotic citizens, we all longed for a nation, where public funds wouldn’t be hijacked by one or few compatriots. We should all clamour for a country, where health policies would be to the betterment of the nationals all inhabitants of the nation; a country that is devoid of political ikpataism (robbery) and religious wuruwuruism (stratagem); and a nation where judicial aibuekus (judges) are practising without ibelekuism (taking sides). Or a nation where the officeholders would do all within their abilities to shun financial recklessness (profligacy) and other forms of abuse of official conducts.

Nigeria is indeed a God-blessed country, yet a country that is being ruled by the wicked amongst the worst, by the same sets of recycled-old-fellows. (kakistocratic-autocratic-plutocratic-government). These same few Nigerians had taken pride in selling Nigeria to themselves and their friends to amass ill-gotten-wealth (nepotism and favouritism).  Avarice is growing beyond the rapacious syndrome. The rich and mighty are doing everything to frustrate the poor and the have-nots. All public parastatals and utility service offices are in moribund, the roads are in desuetude and the power supplies had become erratically-paralytic, and had forced the economy to a halt due to incessant power outages. All basic amenities are denied the populace, due to selfish interests and wickedness of the highest order.

In a country, where professionalism and excellence are sidetracked, a land where bribery, wayo (craftiness) and mediocrity is taking precedence. Financial impropriety and economic loots are celebrated and yet, spreading without measures, besides, the anti-graft agencies are blind to the atrocities perpetrated by these same rich-and-wicked members of the government.

Often times, I weep to see my country in its state of disrepair, I wondered, if this is the kind of a nation the foster fathers and founding mothers had wished of this great-but-falling-nation due to its illness of corrupt tendencies and malicious governance. Education is sickly, power sector and the hospitals are dead, and the road is lying in the grave, the water ministry is buried long ago. Insecurity and abuse of human rights are the order of the day.

Let us all pray and work harder, for the survival of this cash-rich-but-resource-strap economic country, or else, our nation is already dancing into doom and its catastrophes would be felt by all and sundry.