Beehive of Troubles
Everytime I sit down to think and analyze the situation of things around me and the state of affairs in this country, I usually get migraines. It's like a web of events without a beginning and also without a way out of the whole mess. Things in this country has so deteriorated to the point that some of my friends now use the phrase "there was a country called Nigeria" because there seems to be no light at the end of this tunnel.
We've been on a steady decline for the past 60 or so years with a selected few profiteering at the expense of the majority. A country so blessed with both human and natural resources has been stripped bare by vultures who circle around it under the disguise of politics, telling us all sort of lies in a bid to gain access to the national cake. By the time they get up there, all they do is stack up sacks and sacks for their households till the tenth generation.
The economy is in shambles, the naira is trading at 700 to a dollar. But our CBN governor suspended his work, went to run for office (spending billions), failed woefully, and waltzed back to office to raise interest rates and tax the poor. Yet nothing has been done, and inflation is killing the common man. Petrol is sold at 200 naira per liter, diesel at 800 and LPG at 800 as well. The cost of transportation has increased as a result, national grid is collapsing on a regular basis. Nowadays I just trek out to the main road and 1k is finished.
Needless I add that the university system has been totally grounded for over 5 months now. This is my 7th year in a 5 year course without any spill over. Some students have been in 100level since 2020. Nowadays people can't travel again because the roads and railways are not safe. If pot holes don't kill you, bandits and kidnappers will.
And air travel is out of the equation as the cheapest air tickets now are in excess of 100k. Plus the fact that bandits are taking over the Federal capital and even threatening to kidnap the president. But our politicians are vigorously campaigning for next year's elections without any concrete blueprint as to how the problems bedeviling the nation can be solved.
But I don't want to talk about them today. Today is about the common Nigerian on the streets. Today is the day I lay it out to my brothers, not because we're suffering or are victims of bad leadership, but because we're the cause of our problems. Yes all of us. We are the ones who have sold our future to these few elites in the name of loyalty and for peanuts.
From the ones who go around shouting "my oga at the top", loitering by the fences of these super rich thieves who are thriving on our collective misery, to the ones who have made it to their parlors and sitting rooms and are kept as their watchdogs while the oga goes rampaging in Abuja, sending crumbs to them just so they can survive.
From the one who's be given an inconsequential title of PA, just because they've been blindly loyal, to the ones who are kept as mentees and being promised that their time will come while the oga keeps refining his ambitions just to keep lording over them.
Public officials were supposed to be the servants of the people in a democratic society, but instead we've become their slaves as they now trample on us and keep us underneath for their own service. They sleep in beautiful mansions, locking you out with tall fences while you struggle for space every night with mosquitoes and cockroaches.
The presidential election is coming up and a particular aspirant is shouting that the way to curb unemployment is to recruit millions of youths into the army and feed them with cassava and corn, thereby creating the market for farmers.
He's walking around with shaking hands that he can't even hold his party flag and struggles to open his own speech. The other has been conspicuously quiet, rarely granting interviews while holding closed door meetings with political juggernauts from different socio-political zones of the country. They're trading on your destiny with support and resistance.
I don't even care anymore about who anybody wants to support. If you like don't vote in the elections to elect more credible people into office. At the end of the day it is all of us that will suffer. And if peradventure you succeed to "japa", your family people go follow see the shege.
Untill we stop this nonsense of selling our votes and rights for peanuts and rise to take over our mandate, we'll continue to be slaves in our own backyard, whipped and tortured by the whims of greedy and arrogant politicians. May the death of those who departed on 20-10-2020 not be in vain.
