Being A Nigerian.

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What can I say to these things? How do we explain these things to upcoming generations? As a parent, how do you even explain to your child when they ask you about the happenings around? No one is safe, nothing is certain and the future looks bleak with burnt dreams. Where are we going from here, people?

I am proudly Nigerian and I wear my heart on my sleeves. I bleed with emotions and I feel things deeply. I try to see above the average humans. I just desire a better life for everyone. I don't wait for the government to give us the life we deserve, I try to influence life the little way I can. It is not always and only about giving people money, sometimes I try to give people a mental shift so they can think differently and reproduce their results in their way. I am responsible for what I say and definitely not for what everyone thinks. I can point you in the right direction but still, I won't be the one to walk the length of it for you.

How do you explain to a child that the person who stole a thousand naira due to hunger (even though it is wrong) received capital punishment and the person who stole a million dollars despite being full roams the street and the government still try to find a rationale behind such act? How do you teach a child morals when all he or she is faced with speaks the opposite? How do you speak sanity when the whole world is raving mad? How do you explain that there is hope for this country even when those in authority take their investment to the shores of other countries?

Your freedom counts for less and your creativity is not helped. Twitter is banned still and yet we have those whose source of livelihood is on Twitter. I understand the issue of having multiple streams of income and not sticking to just one platform but still, we have those whose major source of livelihood comes from Twitter. How do you expect them not to think of the worst when the odds are stacked against them?

I know we are responsible for our choices and I won't make excuses for anyone who tolls the path of wrong just because the government failed. If the government failed, do you have to fail yourself and those who rely on you? If you ask me, I am just keeping my sanity because it's hard to be motivated where this country is concerned.

I should have made my post yesterday and it wasn't lack of motivation that made me not to post but I just needed to maintain a clear head and who knows, I might make two posts today. I hope Rusty won't think I am overdoing it. I am sorry but I always have a lot to say. If I am allowed, I can dish out quality content 5 times a day because Nigeria is a huge motivation to write on its own. Democracy is a strange language here because we don't practice it. Even the press has been bought and they only speak of what they have been cleared to release to the populace.

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People are dying in the North. Houses are being razed to the ground because a certain set felt entitled to those lands because they want to feed their cows. Cows are more valuable to humans in Nigeria, how sad. Those who swore and were trained to protect us are the ones being used also to oversee these dastardly acts. What an irony. If we truly have a responsible government on the ground, these issues should have gone beyond semantics while a permanent solution should have been proffered to the carnage that had taken the limelight in this Nigeria.

Our security architect should be overhauled. Why? What's the essence of security budgets that was drafted and yet citizens' lives won't matter? We are labour intensive where this country is concerned so tell me how there would be growth for a country that is labour intensive and the lives of those who work to keep the country together are being wasted? You need to live in Lagos to see how people are working like crazy men and women - leaving their families and dashing out of the house as early as 4 am!!! There is no infrastructural development they can put in place that would replace the lives of the citizens they don't value. Shouldn't every life weigh more than the treasuries in the Central Bank combined?

I am sad, broken, distraught, concerned and devastated with the state of this country. The best we can do is shout and complain but nothing is getting across to them. They waste human lives as though they can be replaced. They are the most humble of humans when the election is coming and funny thing is, I doubt if the elections even count because they have already placed strategic people in positions of influence to tilt the tide in their favour. It's a reoccurring cycle and they would do anything to make poverty become the order of the day, why? How else would they entice others with stipends if they allow them to make wealth easily? This explains the Twitter ban, Cryptocurrency ban and so many other things they do just to frustrate an average Nigerian who has no place to go other than to 'keep pushing'.

Okay, I am done ranting and I feel the need to get it out there. My heart is heavy and if you ask any Nigerian, he or she would tell you two things;

• 1. He or she wants to leave the country

• 2. To have superpowers to punish these so-called leaders.

God bless Nigeria.

I need to keep my sanity and look on the bright side. It's just one life and IF there is another life to come... I don't ever want to come to Nigeria again 😂😂😂😭😂. If you are a Nigerian, strive to make Heaven, please 😂😂😂🤣 and I am sure we all know why I am saying this. 🤣🤣😂🤣

Thank you for your time.