Can we say “I am so Nigerian, very Nigerian, truly Nigerian , proudly Nigerian”
Nigeria has Less than 125, 000 active nurses, caring for the health care needs of over 200 million Nigerians,as was said by the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM).
The country is faced with inadequate manpower in nursing , and is supposed to have 800, 000 nurses serving her healthcare needs.
The reason it is so vital to hold the government’s feet on fire and make them admit their failures through whistle blowing.
As we are producing them, some countries of the world are already waiting by the corner, luring them with good packages and conducive working environment.
Similarly, many registered ones with years of experience are retiring on daily basis but there is no replacement.Let us blow the whistle because our lives are at stake.
Nursing education in Nigeria is nothing to write home about, because of poor funding for institutions, thereby making the production of nurses and midwives at the lowest end.
The ravaging COVID-19 pandemic has further worsened the situation and has greatly affected us in many phases.Let us blow the whistle.
The National Health Insurance Scheme is enmeshed in corruption.If you have ever tried the scheme,you will regret enrollment, because many hospitals treat those with the scheme as if they came to disturb them.
Even when hospitals get so much money from the scheme and thousands of patients hardly use the scheme, the absence of thousands of enrollees should have made easier for those who care for the scheme to get the best.Unfortunately that is not the case.Let us blow the whistle.
We need blow whistle on how to strenghten the healthcare system. It is very crucial.
Unfortunately heaIth centers commissioned by past governments, whether Federal or state governments are littered all over the country and allowed to decay. Let blow the whistle.
Such infrastructures, that have been left to rot away after some contractor crooks had over inflated the values of the contracts and made away with their loots must be recovered and put to use. Let us blow the whistle.
For us as citizens to participate in transparency of governance ,we need to become emergency whistle blowers everywhere.Let our whistles be in our mouth within the 774 local government areas.
We must learn whistleblowing by force . We should all come together and blow our whistles daily, against all vicious actors and their activities in and out of power.
We should be blowing the whistle against ourselves and not only against those in government.
A situation where foriegners come to Nigeria to establish companies with intentions to pay good salaries not less than hundred thousand naira.
The Nigerian directors and managers go out their way to convince them to reduce the salary to 30k should be exposed through whistle blowing.
Nigerians telling foreigners that Nigerians are a very hard-working people, that they can cope.
Let us empower ourselves to demand accountability and responsibility everywhere.
With the whistles in our mouth ,the issue of silencing critical voices shall be reduced.
The situation where such voices move on to other criticisms once government issues deceptive press releases that they are looking into the issues shall be arrested because why some move on others will on the issue until a solution is found. Nigerians have been taken for granted as a result of this for a long time.
Let us collectively make things tough for whatever government that comes into power through quality whistle blowing.
Can we imagine that former US vice president,Mike Pence had no home of his own after leaving office, and had to live with one of his brothers.
Let us commission ourselves as whistle blowers to help this nation.
Heaven helps those who help themselves,so the saying goes.
Nigerians are faced with multi-faceted challenges at different levels of society.
When they don’t have power or low current,they buy transformers and hand over to government regulators who on top of it callously give them excessive bills on estimate.
When transformers breakdown,they are called upon to contribute money for the repair or remain in darkness.
When outdated electric poles break as the wind blows ,it becomes their collective responsibility to buy fresh poles or forget power supply.
A demonically regulated Nigerian space with power drunk regulators who intimidate and extort the citizens in broad daylight.
When they can no longer be secured by government in various estates ,they employ security men and arm them.
When they are arrested for one flimsy excuse or the other,they pay from their nose even when they see posters saying ” Bail is free”
A system that is against the less priviledged who are completely shut up from even complaining.
A system that is totally designed for the well-to-do,where most basic social needs are almost inaccessible.
An unfair and unjust system that is demanding patriotism from the oppressed.What a nation.
We have ended up badly with many of them since independence.
It is only through strong hand by the citizens that we can re-package Nigeria again.
We must stop babysitting our leaders, beginning from local government chairmen, members of state assemblies, national assemblies, Governors and Presidents .
Since we have discovered that the medieval style of reasoning and thinking has become their lot over the years.
As they junket from one part of the globe to the other with our resources,they remain blind to infrastructural developments in sane climes after enjoying stupendous holidays with their families in the best of beaches all over the world.
Even the most or less partisan amongst us ,can admit that without blind political affiliations , that the intellectual capacities of our topmost leaders and mordern governance sophistication to manage a complex nation like Nigeria is non-existent.
Our leaders thrive on dysfunctional.It is going to be nearly impossible for them to fix Nigeria at the rate they are going even in the next fifty years.
The rut is so deeply rooted.They are practicing soldier come soldier go but the barracks remain filthy.We need to overhaul the system soomehow , may be Jerry Rawlings style.
May of us use. “Ghana must Go” bags without thinking or remembering how it came about .A discussion for another day.
Ghana’s longest- serving leader of blessed memory,who liberated Ghana, said something during one of his speeches and interviews about his vision for Ghana,”Don’t sing songs in praise of me.Sing in praise of Ghana… “
What a big contrast!!. Can you be close to any of our topmost leaders without singing his praise? .You may just be risking long-term fabricated or cocorted imprisonment.
It is very dangerous to suspend rational thinking in this country.Many people think, (though in the minority),that these embarrassing issues should be overlooked because they are in power.
Nigeria can only make genuine progress when we listen to patriotic and sincere voices and opinions from different perspectives.
Out of 180 countries analysed , to see how they scored ,in the fight against corruption by Transparency International, Nigeria was in the 25th position in the passing year, 2020.
This was her worst rating on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. Yet we are fighting corruption.
Even though COVID19 pandemic has put additional pressure on the integrity systems of many countries,and tested the limits of their response in emergency reliefs, Nigeria as usual joined those countries that fell short of transparency and accountability.
As a Nigerian,you should be ashamed of the category of nations that Nigeria is dragging these positions with or competing with for a medal.
But this should not come as a surprise, afterall , Nigerians had to forcefully break into warehouses to get their own relief,or palliative materials, spaghetti and indomie, that are dropped at the doorsteps of the “NEEDY”during lockdown in other nations. They were even at war with the Governors and security agents to get just a pack.
With all the uncertainty that covid19 has dumped on global, and domestic economies ,many countries are quickly adapting and responding .
Have we heard from our leaders what is their direction on economic recovery plans?. Everything is shrouded in secrecy, even if they have any.
All because of stinking corruption.
Because of corruption our Government has refused to fund education.
It is on record that our universities closed,between 1999 to 2020, because of ASUU strike for 70 months and 2 weeks . Which means that the schools were closed for 5 years,10 months and 2weeks.
Should we clap for Nigeria?. Unfortunately my hands are paining me.
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”–Mahatma Ghandi.
It seems that our leaders will not rest until they completely bankrupt the country by their looting spree. How many can you catch?
When the wealth of the billionaires and millionaires in politics are soaring, while millions are losing jobs or unemployed?
When a single politician can book all the hotels in a state for campaign purposes.
Politicians who think about money when their minds are in neutral, think about money within idle moments and think about money during busy moments .
Politicians who worship money. Who can kill because of money and power.
The principle of what you worship what you serve.How can they serve you? Whatever commands your attention becomes your God.
Therefore,it may be very difficult to find a very comfortable man or politician in our clime to put all his comfort aside and take up the fight to save the nation.
I know that we still have the brand of citizens like Prof Dora Akunyili , who showed us that we can fix any system in this country if we are serious and unbiased.
She revamped the drug and food industry without playing ethnic politics.She went after fake drug dealers regardless of their tribe, their location or position in the society.
Unfortunately it is difficult to change the mindset of a political class who are so comfortable , to the extent that they see nothing wrong with their actions over the years.
How can leaders allow systemic attrocities by armed bandits to go on because of their ethnic group. It is absolutely indefensible.
These marauding bandit’s pose an existential threat and danger to our collective survival as a nation.
Such Frankenstein flames must be extinguished before it raises the whole nation down .
One of the tragic consequences of such attitude is that people may eventually venture to defend themselves in a manner shaped by their anger , based on civil disobedience.
When the nation is littered with almost violent beggars in virtually all state capitals.Who violently knock on car windows with desperation written all over their faces.
Stopping at the traffic lights becomes a problem when such firece looking beggars are on either side of the car , always peering in
The only thing that stops them from robbing car owners is broad daylight.
Truth is always a constant against lies.Our inability to accept our leadership shortcomings shall continue to mess the nation up.
Many people may try to hide the truth and defending lies about the state of the nation,but like a smoke , you cannot hide that forever.
How do you expect a richman, millionaire, billionaire to champion a cause against what he is guilty of.You want him to pour fuel on the fire that shall consume all his illegally acquired wealth.
Many of them have one corruption case or the other pending in various courts all over the land .Yet they are strutting the landscape freely.
We see many of them forfietting properties to the state and still contesting elections.
Such freedom can come only be available in our country. Therefore you don’t expect them to change the status quo.
Political power continues to be wielded as an enemy of the people of Nigeria with the looting spree.
The Nigerian tragedy has reached the point where decent and honest people can no longer keep silent.I know we still have them amongst us.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” I am totally in agreement with Edmund Burke.
Armed soldiers cannot be pinning down civillians on the road in a democratic regime.That can only happen during military regimes.Releasing life rounds of ammunition on innocent civillians in the villages and leaving lifeless bodies of citizens drenched in blood is genocide.
For civillians to flee their homes because of sporadic shooting by soldiers who are sustained by tax payers money can never be acceptable in a sane society.
For the nation to resort to regional outfits for security , having lost that government can secure them is dangerous.
When civillians or communities begin to self-appoint guardians for themselves , to secure their communities , where the NDLEA chief is ordering field commanders to mop up illicit drugs ,there is fire on the mountain already.
These are not solutions because they have limitations.
A nation where their police officers are among the best in the world but worst at home.
Despite the much-hyped incorruptibility of governance that was cavassed that brought the government to power ,the government has failed to make hard choices because of sacred cows.
It looks like succeeding governments , keep loading themselves with all the vices of previous administrations in addition to new vices created,where do we go from here?
We must allow critics of good and bad governance to express themselves ,that is the beauty of democracy.
We can only appeal to them to express themselves constructively and not destructively.Their criticisms must be progressive educative .
There is always something we don’t know,but someone else does ,that how an egalitarian society operates.
Someone having or expressing an opinion is not a criminal offence.But we must not engage in fruitless conversations or waste time on frivolities.
When we have almost a hapless opposition because they are them them.Who are even part of the problem .
Hungry collaborators who change on settlement.What about the media and the civil society groups who choose to sabotage democratic process when once their palms are greezed.
Many also have opted to destroy the country as you listen to them out of power .You will easily recognize that their criticism are selfish and self promoting with a hidden agenda .If we cannot be in power let us destroy the country.
A nation of paradoxes where pastors are politicians.Churches celebrating thieves. Ex- convicts elected into the hallowed of the national assembly to make laws for a nation they had almost destroyed.
Some doze off when debates are going on even when it may affect their constituencies. Listening to the dabstes is like watching the theatre of absurd.
Many of them living on retirement benefits as councilors, local government chairmen,state house of assembly member, senator and then Governor and back as senator again .Why wouldn’t such an individual be sleeping while serious issues are being discussed ?
He has nothing to lose if the country is in flames because all members of his household are resident abroad , while his children are in the best of schools with top class medicare.
Another dilemma in the nation is the over politicization of the institutions. That is why nothing works.
When once you hand over or sale any over any public corporate organizations to an individual,he begins to apply corporate gorvernance standard.
But give them the same companies to manage on behalf of the people , the become bazaars .
But those who lost their loved ones will not remember the politics of it. They will remember their loss and the pain that they now live with: the women who were raped, the children of late Fatai Aborode, Ph.D who have lost a father, the farmers whose farms were destroyed by cattle-rearers, the families that paid ransom and still had to pick up the corpse of their loved ones by the roadside, the many untimely widows and orphans in Ondo, Igangan, Imo, Southern Kaduna and elsewhere. Will they ever get justice?
In the past week, in the South Western part of Nigeria, we have been treated to stories of conflicts in Ondo and Oyo States between herdsmen, identified as Fulani, and the Yoruba owners of indigenous communities. In Ondo state, the issue at stake is the conversion of the state’s forest reserves into a criminal space by herdsmen who violate the integrity of the reserves and a hide-out for kidnaping, extortion and killings. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu affirming his powers as the Chief Security Officer of the state gave a seven-day ultimatum to the herdsmen in the forest reserves to vacate the place immediately. He also directed that the open grazing of cattle on main roads and within the city has been outlawed. The Governor further asked for a proper registration of all herdsmen within the state. Governor Akeredolu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria has been praised for his courage and assertiveness by Yoruba socio-cultural groups and leaders of thought. He has been condemned by groups and stakeholders from the North of Nigeria who classify his objection as a case of ethnic cleansing. The Governor insists however, that his directive is based on security considerations. His ultimatum expired yesterday, the same day that a meeting of South West Governors, their counterparts from Kebbi and Jigawa, and the leadership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) was summoned by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, to chart a path for peace and reconciliation. null
In neighbouring Oyo State, the people of the South West were faced with a similar situation in areas identified as Ibarapa East, Ibarapa North, Igangan and the whole of the Oke Ogun area. Whereas in Ondo State, the Governor led the protest against the menace of the so-called Fulani herdsmen, in Oyo State the state Governor, Seyi Makinde sounded more accommodating. Despite reports of wanton killings and destruction by herdsmen in parts of the state, the loss of valuable lives and properties, the Oyo State Governor chose to toe a safe, acquiescent path. He ignored the yearnings of those who asked the government – state and Federal- to stop the killings and come to the people’s rescue. He in fact was on record as having asked the authorities to arrest and sanction anyone who raised any objections to the situation in the troubled parts of the state. With the state Chief Security Officer, from whom empathy and action was expected, behaving in such manner, the people of Oyo State found solace in a certain Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Igboho is from Oyo state, precisely from a community known as Igboho. He grew up in the Modakeke part of Ile-Ife. He was reportedly involved in the intra-ethnic conflict between Ife and Modakeke in the 90s, as a warrior on the Modakeke side. Over the years, he acquired quite a reputation as a very powerful man. His critics describe him as an able-bodied man for politicians as he once was for Alhaji Rasheed Ladoja, the bi-lingual former Governor of Oyo State, or they dismiss him as a land-grabber, a label he vehemently denies. Igboho’s admirers regard him as an ethnic patriot, a defender of the Yoruba nation, a man of justice, an activist and a freedom fighter, who has chosen to stand up for the rights of the oppressed.
The Igboho phenomenon deserves some close attention. Sunday Igboho showed up in the fight against criminal herdsmen in Oyo State because of the shocking absence of leadership. The state Governor failed to defend the people’s interest. He did not stand up to the truth like Governor Akeredolu of Ondo state. He provided a vacuum which a Sunday Igboho decided to fill. The failure of leadership from the right quarters has its consequences and this is what we are seeing in Oyo State. In Ondo state, there may be other Sunday Igbohos, with as much fire in their bellies, but they did not step forward in a similar fashion, because they could see the man they voted into power making an effort to put the people’s interest first. Akeredolu was challenged by the Federal Government, indeed the Presidency in a statement through Garba Shehu, Presidential spokesman, tried to teach the Ondo Governor some elementary Constitutional Law. This was widely interpreted as an attempt by the Buhari Presidency to defend Fulani interests. Akeredolu stood his ground. In so doing, he got broad support, from lawyers, community leaders and major Yoruba stakeholders. By the time his one-week ultimatum to those who had seized control of the Ondo forest reserves expired yesterday, the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) already offered its services to help enforce the Governor’s directives. Governor Makinde may well in the long run pay a heavy political price for his apparent cowardly mishandling of the current crisis in his state. He is perhaps being careful, but there are certain moments that demand sincerity. He failed the test.
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Sunday Igboho took full advantage of the situation. On his own, he visited Igangan and Ibarapa East Local Government Area, without any governmental authority behind him. He had the support of the youths of the area, and also the backing of traditional rulers, one of whom had to pay a ransom to get his son released by kidnappers. Igboho was reportedly shot at, but bullets we were told could not penetrate his heavily fortified body. An axe was raised against him, but again, they said it had no effect. He confronted the Seriki Fulani in the community, and asked him to produce the herdsmen who were terrorizing the people so the law could take its course. He gave a seven-day ultimatum. If the criminals could not be produced, he expected the Fulani community to leave the territory. And he promised to return in seven days. And he did. His demands were not met. The result was mayhem. The home of the Seriki Fulani was set ablaze. His vehicles were torched. He and his family ran into the bush. The Seriki is said to have fled all the way to Ogun State, where we are told a group of herdsmen backed by the military recently lined up recalcitrant traditional rulers and gave them the beating of their lives, for having the audacity to say they do not want Fulani herdsmen in their community. Igboho, the latest strong man in Yoruba politics is a product of myth, history and the failure of the Nigerian state.
How on earth would any individual openly boast that nobody, not the Governor of the state, not the Inspector General of Police not even the state Commissioner of Police can arrest him, and get way with the temerity? During the weekend, Garba Shehu using the platform of the Presidency, announced that the Inspector General of Police had ordered the arrest of Sunday Igboho. Igboho laughed it off. He said he was waiting for anyone to dare arrest him. In the end, nobody did. In fact, the Oyo State Commissioner of Police who should have carried out the directive, ended up having a meeting with Sunday Igboho! He proved untouchable. This merely deepened his myth. The man and his supporters talk about Igboho’s formidable spiritual prowess. He even wears a coat of amulets to Church. He can command guns to appear and disappear at will. Nobody knows how much of that is true or not, but Igboho has managed to capture the public imagination. He won’t be the first of his type. When the state fails the people, people like Igboho emerge to provide leadership. He is again a symbol of the mistrust at the heart of the Nigerian arrangement: like Isaac Adaka Boro in the Niger Delta in the 1960s, Odumegwu Ojukwu defending the interest of the Igbos in 1967 and beyond, Ken Saro-Wiwa leading Ogoni nationalism and the cause of environmental justice in the 90s, Dr. Frederick Fashehun and Ganiyu Adams of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Nnamdi Kanu of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), and all the aggrieved persons from Southern Kaduna the Middle Belt, Adamawa and elsewhere who believe that they have been served badly by Nigeria, for both ethnic and religious reasons.
Of all the many ills that afflict Nigeria, the most prominent recently has been the conflict between indigenes and settlers, and specifically, between pastoralists and farmers, and the animosity between both over land and access to resources. It is an old, historical problem tied to ethnicity, religion, the politics of space and primordial sentiments. This conflict has caused so much mayhem in the past, exactly at those moments when the state was complicit in promoting one side against the other, and when the politics of proximity was privileged over the national interest or the objectives of peace and stability. It is a double-edged sword, for those who end up playing the politics of proximity end up short-changing their own people. The Fulani question which is now being played up is related to this. The people of Fulani stock have lived across Nigeria, in different communities for more than a century. Cattle rearing is not new. Cattle herders have lived amongst other Nigerians for as long as anyone can remember, and so attractive is the business that there are closet cattle owners among virtually every Nigerian group. The real owners of the cattle are not the stick-wielding, now gun-wielding herders, who add banditry and kidnapping as side vocations, the real owners are the big men in high places – and they are not all Fulani- for whom the ownership of cattle is business, and a source of prestige. How does this cross-ethnic elite class behind the modern mutation of the business fuel the conflicts? This is a question we need to interrogate. Who provides the arrogant and criminal-minded herdsmen with guns, or state protection or the kind of oxygen that blows into their heads and grants them the confidence to boast that they are in charge of Nigeria, every land and every resource?
Nigeria’s history has been one of constant tension between push and pull factors, centripetal and centrifugal forces which often threaten to tear the union apart. It will be remembered, no matter what government spokespersons say that the Buhari administration has managed to create an impression that it is pro-North, pro-Islam, and pro-Fulani and that anything to the contrary is not likely to attract the same empathy. This is the crux of the matter. In Igangan, Sunday Igboho was told that only President Buhari can ask the herdsmen to leave Oyo state. In Ondo state, similar sentiments were expressed. To an average Yoruba audience, this is bound to throw up primordial attachments about the ownership of land. The Yoruba have not forgiven the Fulani and Afonja, who betrayed the Yoruba race, for the implantation of a Fulani Emirate in Ilorin. The battle of Osogbo (1840) which was where the Yoruba, led by the Ibadan army, put an end to Fulani incursion into Yoruba territory is still referred to as if the war was fought yesterday.
Any talk about the Fulani laying claims to space and authority in Yorubaland is bound to cause enormous tension. It should be understandable therefore why Sunday Igboho has received praise from key Yoruba figures, Governor Akeredolu has various socio-cultural groups behind him and the Alaafin of Oyo has penned an open letter to President Buhari. Those who criticize the Buhari administration for openly supporting the Fulani agenda have a lot to point to: the seemingly open and undisguised support for Miyetti Allah, the aborted RUGA settlement idea, the justification of grazing routes, which has now been countered afresh with a detailed reference to a 1969 judgement by late Justice Adewale Thompson of the Abeokuta Division of the High Court (as he then was) and the repeated failure of the government to bring errant herders involved in criminal conduct to book. The arrogance of certain commentators has not helped matters either: how dare anyone claim so insensitively that every piece of land in Nigeria belongs to the Fulani? Perhaps there are certain elements out there stoking the embers of crisis for their own purposes. It is also not impossible that there are so many cattle herders out there, who are not even Fulani, but who hide under the ethnic label even when they cannot speak a word of Fulfulde. But when government fails to deal with the obvious challenges of poverty and criminality, and considers the defence of an ethnic group a major priority, this is what happens – it widens the gaps among the people, and encourages the kind of resort to self-help that is represented by the Igboho phenomenon. It has been said that Sunday Igboho has political ambitions which probably explains the opposition to him by the incumbent Governor of Oyo state. And that is part of the problem: we play politics with everything in this country.
But those who lost their loved ones will not remember the politics of it. They will remember their loss and the pain that they now live with: the women who were raped, the children of late Fatai Aborode, Ph.D who have lost a father, the farmers whose farms were destroyed by cattle-rearers, the families that paid ransom and still had to pick up the corpse of their loved ones by the roadside, the many untimely widows and orphans in Ondo, Igangan, Imo, Southern Kaduna and elsewhere. Will they ever get justice?
For how long shall we tolerate leadership incompetence and yet insistence on power by the political class that is costing Nigeria a lot.
After one election , without governance or fulfilling the promises made ,they are already jostling , realigning,and positioning for another four year term .Crossing from one party to another ,fooling themselves.
Governing without a blueprint or manifesto. How much more can we continue to ignore the obvious .It may be very difficult to survive under such political climate. I am truly scared ,honestly. This matter requires urgent attention by honest Nigerians who still mean well.
Having watched so many social commentators ,or political analysts on national televisions over the years ,and admiring their analytical minds,and wishing that one day they will find themselves in power.
I get so scared and disappointed,when these same individuals come to power and begin to sing a different song.Songs worse than the ones sang by those they were criticizing .They become more enemies and ministers of retrogression than their predecessors.
For us to survive as a nation, social critics must remain consistent with their analytical minds,inside and outside power or corridors of power.
That is the way to go.They must remain consistent with their “messsage” on nation building and help impliment policies especially those from our ivory towers.
They should be consistent with their brand and values.This will make the nation move towards economic development and political development.
It is a sad commentary from the ivory tower for professors who are appointed as electoral officers , to be handcuffed for corruption cases ,because of aiding and abetting electoral mal-practice .
Another looming danger is our inability to say the truth when somebody from our ethnic group steals while in power.
We tend to show unnecessary solidarity, as if we were sharing the proceeds with the fellow,whether man or woman,just because we see him or her as our own.
That is the reason our leaders will never take voters seriously.How can you be re-electing robbers,thieves and ex-convicts .
Our bias towards our ethnic groups and prejudice against other groups will never move this nation forward or move our economy forward.
Only God shall protect us from the brand of misgovernance of these present crop of leaders.
When you find yourself in a nation where every conversation no matter how relevant to the progress of the nation takes a tribal colouration,or ethnic group,then you should know that it is a very bad omen.
TRIBAL SUPREMACY.
When you now add the implementation of the supremacy of one tribe ,it becomes very dangerous.
Implementing the supremacy of one tribe over all others, in a multicultural,multi-religious society is like saying to your “tents oh Israel.
We all know that there are different cultures, different people ,different food , drink and wear.Looking closely you will discover that different cultures different aspirations
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Somebody posted the following , hotlines, telling people who found themselves in such situations to call as soon as possible for attention.He attached numbers which I don’t intend to disclose.
I don’t blame the person who posted the hotlines.I should call him a patriotic Nigerian.
The number of evils and wrongs done to people everyday is enough for people to lose their sanity.
DISREGARD FOR THE LAWS OF THE LAND
When,both the leaders and the led allow the indiscriminate disregard for the laws of the land with internal security issues everywhere , your guess is as good as mine.
The kind of values placed on human lives is frightening.Kidnappings,killings,banditry,armed robbery and all sorts of crimes to the extent that nobody is sure of getting back home after leaving home in the morning.
WALKING IN FEAR
You wake up in a nation where nothing seems to be working.You step out in fear and come back in fear of being killed.
You go to the farm for subsistence living in fear, and your relations are called upon to pay ransom to kidnappers on your behalf in millions.
5k CELEBRATION.
The Government is celebrating giving her citizens 5k as if hospitals accept 5k on admission or that private schools have reduced the cost of education for the less priviledged, since the public schools are in coma.
BREEDING FUTURE BANDITS .
It is very dangerous when a huge population of our children are left unschooled it becomes a bitter investment for future armed banditry.
OPPRESSORS IN POWER AND CORRIDORS OF POWER.
A situation where you find your close friends getting close to the corridors of power, (not even in power) because that is a different ball game, that they now become oppressors themselves.Which means that to oppress others is our DNA.
There is general exploitation everywhere . Security guards arranging for their employers to be kidnapped.Lectures exploiting students and teaching them to do so whenever the opportunity comes after graduation.
MONEY MONEY MONEY.
Baby making homes for sale springing up here and there. Children using their parents for money rituals .
When security agents cannot even secure their families financially based on their incomes after patrolling all night ,when fake policemen are arrested as armed robbers.
When gunmen are storming orphanage homes to kidnap orphans.when your neighbors are no longer talking to you or responding to your calls anymore, even if it is midnight,because they realized that you retired comfortably,after a lifetime of frugal saving and investment, thinking that you stole money like others,then the future becomes ominous.
In case you have any challenge in the country ,please just dial 0000000.
If there is no response that is a bad omen already.
The Political Animal 