By By Comrade Wande Owati
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on – George Soros
Those that fought for our independence had a purpose and mission for doing so, the reasons are not far fetched, they envisaged the country that works, the country that her people would be proud of, the country that will proffer therapies to the appetite of her occupants, the country that would be able to strive with other leagues of Nations when it comes to advancement, the country that will not have a partition, wall, and lacuna of social amenities, the country that would be able to engage her young graduates and the country that would be a haven and harbor for businesses and citizens, the country that her inhabitants would be able to sleep with two eyes closed to mention a few.
Those that fought for our freedom didn’t make life outrageous and unbearable for our present authorities, most of them succeeded from free education and the autonomous feeding of the then government, life was made easy and sustainable for them, most things were provided for them, by the government on “pro bono” according to history.
We understood that there were no police beastliness, no Boko Haram, no fugitives, and bandits to mention a few of the lethal wrecking our country, remember that hunger can also cause a social tumult and commotion.
The nation we have today is ironically the country our forefathers dreamt of, Nigeria presently is nothing but a coliseum of drama and manuscript in the hands of the authors, it amazes me seeing the nonchalant and lackadaisical temperaments and attitudes of the sons and daughters of perdition ruling us, most of them are more virulent than the coronavirus prowling our country, the likes of Awolowo, Azikwe and Aminu Kano won’t have for once believed that they are leaving this country in the hands of Pharaoh and King Herod offsprings. We are no more excited about the giant of Africa, we are no more delighted of the country that has Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and a host of others, the country that has the likes of Okonjo Iweala, Doral Akuyili, and co.
We are now in a country where we can’t sleep with our two eyes closed, Nigeria is now a haven and sanctuary for terrorists and social vices, Nigeria is now a country where leaders reimburse and compensate militants and bandits and robbers coercing and depriving the graduates and workers of a better life. Oh, my country!.
I have a question, is this not the nation that our leaders reaped free education?
Today most Nigerians can’t afford to attend school because of the staggering, enormous, and humongous amount of money inflicted on schools by our demonic and wicked leaders, to eat three square meals is a defilement, sacrilege, and heresy in Nigeria at present, to get a job in the country that had once gave her graduates free cars and jobs is now immorality. If you are not a son of somebody you can’t even be a gateman talkless of getting a job.
Who uttered profanity on our blessed Nation?
The country that’s blessed with various natural resources and human reserves, Nigeria is blessed with trailblazers, forerunners and thinkers, and a lot more, when it moves toward natural resources we have, coal, crude oil, bitumen, gold, Etc.
It’s undebatable that our predecessors, the combatants of our freedom will not be happy with the way these despots are governing us.
At this milestone and climacteric of our national existence, the North and South need to come concurrently and reanalyze the 1914 amalgamation or renegotiate the conformity of this country.
It is vicious and detrimental for our generation to continue acknowledging the country that is deteriorating and eroding every day, this generation has lost confidence in the present crops of leaders we have today. Hunger, frustration, and depressions are now the accomplice and abettor of a common man, its time to take assertive measure to checkmate the looming revolution, we can’t continue in a country that sees the common man as third citizens, our leaders should wake up from their shuteye and fix anything, fixable before it boomerangs, this is not the country we dream of.
