Our dilemmas had taken their roots in the kind of leaders we have, but much more, our confusion lies in the annals of the society we live in today, most especially, the kind of parents nature is grooming in this part of the world and the crisis of religion and their leaders. The everyday news and what you see yourself is a testament to that assertion.
At this age, we must congratulate the geographical expression called Nigeria, which has made immense progress while it concerns displaying our folly amidst oceans of adverse effects.
Since independence, a lot of things has progressed in acres of space, lips, and bound, such that while other climes are positively in the future, Nigeria as well as in the future of so many errors and swallowing morsels to corroborate the mismeasures of poor parenting, proportionate sickness of the elites, politically and socially. Let us not forget, even from the society.
This is a worrying time to be existing in this mere geographical expression, and I made no mistake in the choice of my words. Morally on the daily nuggets, and evening news, the new normal is ritual killings, the collapse of the educational system, lack of social change, and unfortunately, the mass murders of teenage uprightness. We now have this attitude of, ” Mama should see me now”. With ill-gotten wealth displaying our folly, aren’t we a sick nation?
Our dilemmas had taken their roots in the kind of leaders we have, but much more, our confusion lies in the annals of the society we live in today, most especially, the kind of parents nature is grooming in this part of the world and the crisis of religion and their leaders. The everyday news and what you see yourself is a testament to that assertion.
Streamlining my argument. We are becoming comfortable amidst the nuances overshadowing our dear society, with the ever-increasing number of out of school children, the tomorrow is already bleak, the multitude of people you see by the roadside, committing all sorts of non-conformance attitude on public space, is now higher than the number of those waking up early to search for their daily bread legally. I tell you this for free, the center cannot hold, but in the magical sphere of things, we are still miraculously managing to stand. Sadly but truthfully, I won’t be surprised if this army of jobless and mean youths take over the street and terrible actions become the irrevocable order of the day. In truth, we have the answer but our sickness won’t allow us to solve it.
While the tested and sustainable answer is the full orientation of the society, about the ills eating our lungs, and strict obedience to the law, we should not forget the tools needed to carry out all this are all but rotten, from the judiciary to the legislature down to the executives. A quick branch even to the school, for example, I am afraid the things happening in the home of light no longer can sustain the dark tunnel. The manner through which students have decayed morally even at the doors of light still marvels me, and this is not just the problem of the school teachers. But the problem of you and I, truly we are sick.
Using the senior secondary school as a yardstick, since it’s the connection to the tertiary, the statistics of students passing their exams may look positive, but from the deepest side of a teacher which I am, I tell you the reality is but a mirage of what we see online, we all know the truth, that most of the Nigerian student can’t defend their results, And I am not being biased about this nor being negative minded, believe you me, our country has and will continue to produce the best. However, today’s students are the outcome of what I call, results from padding, by many teachers in the system, who are long overdue to resign or shouldn’t have been there in the first place. These are teachers exploiting students especially those who have handiwork, which should have been a positive sign of a bright future, but it is becoming their doom. They now focus on using their skills to satisfy their teachers who overturn help them with scores they don’t deserve. We already know the fate of the other kind of female students in the hands of their male teachers, irrespective of age. Our system is sick I say again.
Having been present at a Parents-Teachers forum once, the suggestions by the few parents who manage to even come to check the welfare of their protege scare me. Parents are willing to pay money to teachers and coordinators of school, to help their ward pass their exams, instead of encouraging their children to focus while being taught at school. The kids have been bound to the Philistines, in the word of Mr. Jimi Disu, and with such statements, it clearly shows the defunct from home as well. These are the future leaders in quote.
This isn’t to take away the strength of the geniuses but compared to the population we have, this rot will overshadow the brilliant ones. In other words, my point is the education system is abysmal, and it’s expected, because the welfare of the teacher is next to penury, and you expect them to effect change that is demanded to live life. Aren’t we sick, to have more professors with practically no invention, more Nigerian doctors in Los Angeles than the whole of Nigeria, more brilliant minds wallowing in the rivers of destitution, more schools with nothing, more students yet, a decaying society?
Every day, the wrong side of life continue to prove your education holds no value, we have seen lots of anti-social behavior rise into stardom, we have seen even governors praise the wrong morals and raise them to the higher echelons of society, what then do you want those coming after them to do, when fraud is being treated with kid gloves, corrupt politicians go scot-free in the hands of the law, and the lives and properties of people no longer have values. In this state, I fear we have not seen anything, but just a glimpse of what is to come. Painfully we have the answer, which makes us a nation of sick people because we won’t do anything, Nigerian’s love being pushed to the wall, and the explosions thereafter destroy creates even more problems.
When you flout your wealth to a group of people in the society who can’t afford a meal a day, and deep down it is clear your source of wealth is unclean when on the news politicians are seen sustaining themselves with what belongs to all Nigerians, when little children, teenagers, and youths, are seen living beyond their measures with no one cautioning this way of life, and instead parents now glorify this anomaly then there is no hope, where the light will spring up from, there is no guarantee.
At the end of it all, one can only hope that things fall into place, and those are the helm of affairs understand the urgent need to take seriously a place they regard as a country. We know the likes of Awolowo, Azikiwe, Balewa won’t come again, but we have enough to turn the tides in our favor, the citizens are not seeking too much but a saner society, where these dysfunctional attributes will leave.
If we are more civil in foreign lands as strangers, what happens to our sense of reasoning the moment we get into our lands. Yet we sing, “Arise o’ compatriot” our nation needs to free itself from this sickness bedeviling our ways of life.
Kareem Itunu Azeez
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