Its such an irony, that the most brilliant and hard working people in the world, can also be the the most ignorant and passive towards their surroundings. Nigeria has a huge list of problems and i doubt i'd be able to list them all in a week. We do the most absurd and unforgiveable things, and all we as Nigerian do is either retaliate barbarically or leave a comment and move on. We talk endlessly about our problems and still do nothing.
I know things are going to change soon, people are getting angry especially the youths. We have choosen not ignore so much anymore. Our leaders are getiing calous and irritating as days go by. Presently, we are close to the election of a new president and still there isn't one person i'd give my vote to. Even if i do vote, it won't count. Whoever has been able to bribe election officials still wins. What hapens in Nigeria actually baffles me. We either blame everything on corruption or being colonized by the British. But no Nigerian has gotten up and said we did this all on our own, and let things get to far.
There are a couple of things i intend to discuss, begining with polictical parties. How many people know what the mandate of our political parties are. What do they stand for? What is PDP,ACN, APGA and the rest advocating for? No one knows and we are still not bothered about it. All we know is PDP is and always be a ruling party and the rest are just minions who are hoping and praying to overthrow their master. Why can't we have parties like the British or U.S, where you know what it means to either be a Liberal, Democrat, Conservative, Republican and so on. Why can't INEC disban political parties that yhave no ideology? Presently in Nigeria we have over 30 political parties. And not one Nigerian knows more than four of them. What are we doing really?
I know our political leaders choose not to make this country a better place, so they would have more vetos at campaign rallies. All you here is "when i get into seat of government i would make better roads, create better jobs, constant power and more blah blah blah", and we Nigerians would go and cheer them, giving them praises and reassurance. Are we not tired of this broken record? Has anyone in the crowd asked what where does in power on behalf of that political party doing for the four years when they got in?. Is there any proof of your previous works towards any of our communities? These are valuable questions that need to be answered.
Recently Akwa Ibom State went through a clash of political parties. Apparently the ruling party of the state (PDP), went for their normal campaign rallies and they crossed path ACN. PDP decided that killing 9 ACN members would be a bold step in showing who was the underdog and holder of the state. ACN decided to retaliate and burnt down over 1000 cars in the state secretariat including privately owned cars. There was no comment at all from the executiveor legistlative branch of our country. This scenario can't happen in certain parts of the world. What stops GEJ from suspending both candidates from running in this election. Lives and properties were lost, and we Nigerians as ignorant and stupidly swayed decided to burn down government owned cars. Choosing to ignore the fact that, the funds used to getting these properties was gotten from hard working Nigerians and our nations wealth.
Its totally sad what happens here. I recently went to Eket A.K.A Mobil City. A local government in Akwa Ibom state. The weather is totally beautiful there, with sand and the ocean close by, but the city has nothing to write home about. In a city that is filled with natural resources nothing has been done to develop it. Why can't the state demand that Mobli develop the city? It is obvious that this can not be done like this in other countries. Instead Mobil has paid off government officials, cheifs and so on to keep quite, while they siphone and stal away our heritage. We ar smart people and we know we can do better, but we pick out the easy road and go blind for a meager money being dropped on our laps.
There is a huge percentage of graduates pumped in everyday into the society. There are still no jobs to keep them busy, so crime rates starts gets hugher. Even going to school can be a real drag, because you know that what ever it is you are studying might not get you a job. The only professions that are there to explore is eiter Politics, Petroleum, Music and going into the movie industry. They are less inventions, no one wants to be a farmer. Everyone wants to get connections to government officials to stay afloat here. And the work force has chosen to discriminate using ageism. If you are not a certain age and have no/ little working experience you can't get a job. Nothing significant is happening. I wonder everyday, what stops the government in bringing industries like Nike to invest in the Nigerian society. Imagine having a job that pays easily and regularly. All they have to do is make Nigeria a safe place and give venues for industries to gain profit. We have gotten so used to thinking that Nigeria has a lot of issues to deal with, but thinking about them deeply you get to realise that it is and was that easy to fix it.
We enjoy celebrating the rich and famous for their mundane behavior, and those in high places open up their mouths and confess to corruption. Nothing is done about it, therefore giving th world a chance to take us out with hurtful comments. I doubt there isn't any corrupt free government, but ours is totally different because we embrace and exault it openly. There is absolutely nothing great about choices. We are becoming a disgrace and we still don't have eloquent people to represent our country to the rest of the world. I think the last eloquent President we had was Gowon, and that has been over 2 decades now. Where are all those who went to good schools and know what they are doing? Our president and his wife have choosen to belittle us with thier constant showoff of stupidity. Its bad enough we had Obasanjo for 6 years and even after he left his seat, i can bet you he still doesn't have any clue on the meaning of "Globalization". Its saddening thinking about what we have become. Everyday i pray that i never reject my heritage and am hoping thnigs change so my future generations would be proud to be Nigerian.
I love my country, but we need something new. We need change, and this won't happen unless people get up and say something. I am saying something and i hope to be one of the forerunners that would be part of the necesarry change that needs to happen here and now. I am slowly getting a migrane from the anger and thinking of these topics. I hope you have the same views, Nigeria needs to get out of its 'stagnant' Zone and, into moving forward. Its never too late to begin, Libya, Egypt and Tunisia have taught us that.
Aimer!
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