Of course, it is abundantly lucid and clear to the blind and audible to the deaf that the prevailing situation of Nigeria can only but be classified with the worst word in the dictionary.
It is common knowledge that the Nigerian government have non chalantly decided to disparage, despise, pooh pooh and vilipend the spirited letters of Habakkuk 2:2-3 of the holy book (bible), where it holds; “Write the vision, make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not like, though it tarry wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry”
It is sufficient to arguably posit that with the happenings within the space of the nation Nigeria, that there is no proscribed vision for the state. The Nigerian peoples just rigmarole and do whatever their hands findeth. No plan, no destined vision, no agenda, no purpose.
advancement?
The putrefaction of the Nigerian state has brought it to a nadir. We are at zero point.
The current economy of Nigeria is as draconian and harsh as the training in the military. There is hunger, squalor, poverty in the land, people living in abject penury. It is well known that at this point in Nigeria, the common man cannot access drinkable water for the fact that a sachet of water cost 20 naira.
The security of the Nigerian state is nothing to write home about, People get extra-judicially killed, kidnappings have become the order of the day and a new normal, federal government negotiating with bandits and kidnappers everyday with no machinery put in place to bring the evil and satanic perpetrators of these heinous and nocturnal activities to book.
Persons who have dared to ask questions and demanded for an egalitarian society, a society that works for all, such person gets arrested, arbitrarily locked up and unconstitutionally detained. A proof is the ENDSARS MASSACRE at the lekki toll gate that occurred on the 20-10-2020.
The Nigerian state is more of a banana republic that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export,
I can readily tell you that the Nigerian state has gone to the dogs. Worryingly, the elected officials that we have are busy greedily carting away the commonwealth of the Nigerian peoples which is supposed to be used for the development of the country, for their generation yet unborn.
Quoting the words of a Rights Activist, FESTUS OGUN;
“Electricity, we power our generators
Water, we dig our boreholes
School, we sponsor ourselves
Hospital, we pay the bills
Security, we hire maiguards
Road, we contribute to patch”
We might want to ask ourselves the question that, what exactly does the Nigerian government do for its citizen other than to impoverish and kill?.
Currently, our courts, the last opium and remedial resort of the common, hopeless and hapless man is underlock, access to justice is blocked, the rights of the people are embroiled and beguiled, civil liberty, at the edge of jeopardy. This is coming as a result of judicial workers on the auspices and plated-armour of Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), who have embarked on an imprecise and evasive nationwide strike since on the 6th day of April 2021, to bring to manifestation the constitutional implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary.
Every sector within the Nigerian state has a deformity, it is this deformity that has brought the country to where it is today. It is the ugly predicament and plight of the Nigerian state that has brought about the big question; “Who will save us?”
It might spellbind you to come to the realization that no one will save us if we don’t save ourselves because like Somalia, we’re on our way to Mogadishu. The solution to our problem lies within us, the peoples of the Nigerian state.
Of a truth, question are already running in your minds , as to how we can save ourselves from the evils and oppression that we have in the country without any First class world power nation intervention?
It should be stressed that ethnicity, tribal-sentiments, political affiliation, favouritism and nepotism has eaten deep into the bone marrows of every pertinent sector of the Nigerian state. What we have in Nigeria is membership and not citizenship. Tell me, how do you demand patriotism from the one whom you have denied citizenship?, it’s the most asinine of all things.
We must begin to place merits above sentiments(for sentiments beclouds sense of reasoning and adjudication); starting from electing a presidential candidate to electing governors, appointing ministers, giving of jobs, admitting students et all. We must understand that sovereignty lies with us the people as contained under Section 14(2a), 1999 CFRN and that we have a common goal and course; EGALITARIANISM, a society that works for all and not some or a few class of persons. It is for this reason that we must not be swayed by the secessionist voices.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA.
JOSEPH ALIU is a Human Rights Activist.
aliujoseph085@gmail.com
