Once upon a time, Nigeria used to be the pride of other
Africa nations, joy of many western powers. J.F. Kennedy say during his
inauguration that “today a new child is being born give that child 20 year he
will rule the world” he was referring to Nigeria. The pronouncement would have
been fulfilled but due to a lot of entanglement that cripple the growth, development
and emancipation of this country everything today is pathetic.
The unfortunate event is that nothing positively and
pragmatically is working, everything is retrogress, no electricity, no good
roads, infrastructure are going down the drain every day, education is in
shambles, we have lost everything that gave us a good beginning, lives were
lost to road accident, air crash, tribal violence, religious clash and
intolerance, boko haram insurgence, militancy, kidnapping and what have you.
One of the reasons why nothing is working is because those who destroyed
yesterday are still in charge of our nation today that is a sorry case.
Considering where Nigeria was in the past and where we
unfortunately are now. Today, Nigeria is in a big mess, the way things are
going now is not the way our founding fathers designed our future. The
prediction of America is far approaching; the life of an average man is going
down the drain every day. Nigeria is pathetically an irony of nationhood and
shadow of itself. Nigeria is placed first in corruption, bribery, poverty,
diversion of public funds, illegal transfer of money abroad, inflated budget
and what have you. Youth unemployment is on the rise daily, breakdown of law
and order, breakdown of moral values.
Today we are face to face with uncertainty, economic failure
because of significant crash in economic structure. This country is presided
over by generation of looters and squanderers, a nation where the presiding
minister of finance said publicly that budget prepared by Federal Government
cannot bring development, oh what a tragedy!
There is disconnect between the people and their country,
Nigeria is doing nothing for Nigerians, the government has been disconnected
from the governed. The myriad of problems facing Nigeria is limitless but there
is a way out. New Nigeria is possible when we have leaders not the kind of
rulers, vagabond in power (VIP) we have today, who are ready to serve and
committed to serving the people we will or may never make any headway.
The civil societies must embark on mobilization of our people
just like in the days of military when Beko Ransome Kuti and Gani Fawehinmi and
host of others activist mobilize us to fight the military and until we see
their end. Now we need massive mobilization of our people to identify the
enemies of our country and how we can defeat them so as to take back our
country.
Productivity is a function of value, let us teach our people
our people to embrace and cultivate right values for living. We need to shun
status quo and say no to corruption and discipline. Nigeria government should
stop this malady “movement without progress”.
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