To my own understanding a democratic government is government of the people, by the people and for the people, but in a country like ours democracy is truly far from us, infact the democracy in Nigeria now is of the government, by the government and for the government, the government controls everything in our country Nigeria. As a country we’re been controlled and oppressed by the government, we as the citizens are not even a priority to the government at all, all they think about is on how to steal, kill and even destroy the masses. According to the law, citizens have the right to speak and protest, but in this part of the country freedom after speech is not assured.
Some of the things that are wrong with democracy in Nigeria are so many such as leadership challenges, the primary goal of having learders in the country is to educate, provide for the people and also to inspire the people, but in a country like ours, their goal is very different from this, they use this medium to enrich their selves and there families, they pocket all the millions meant to provide and elevate the country, these leaders lack good manners, good advisors and all they do is implement laws to stress the living daylight out of the masses.
Everyday we hear different horrible stories on how the masses are being frustrated by the government, infact all I feel like to do is just vent, just in space of some few days petrol had skyrocketed to N1300 per litre and in black markets its either N1500 or even N1700, and the government are not saying anything positive about it, everything is really frustrating in this country, the government is not making anything easy for us, prices of food commodities have gone up to the point that people can no longer eat three squares meals.
Another thing that affects democracy in Nigeria is corruption, now this a major problem, because its only in my country that snake swallows money, and when they are asked to give a breakdown on how they spent the money, they would pretend to faint on national tv, what about Tribalism? The westerners are with the Northerners while the Easterners are on their own fighting to be free, the leaders only give their brothers positions or people that have God fathers, these leaders only want the position to be their family like its their birth right, they never want to give a neutral person the opportunity to exercise their fundamental human rights.
And when it comes to choosing leaders, Nigerians know the rightful people to choose but the government never ever cease to amaze us, we voted for someone else and even counted the votes at different polling units but still they gave another leader, hoodlums were being sent to disrupt polling units, machines were stolen, ballots boxes were destroyed and some masses were even shot.
I really do not know how a free and fair election can be held in this country because the ways of our government is never straightforward but its one of things that can move this country forward, according the fundamental human rights law, masses have the right to speak, protest, cast their votes for whosoever they want, and lastly justice should be served accordingly.
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