One is always bewildered on a daily basis by this kind of country one is given birth to. But, there is this realisation which i through self-introspection discovered that my life is blessed and will be worthwhile but i have been birthed in a wrong country. There is the inner fibre to do much but constrained by the subsisting hampering mechanism. There is nowhere you turn to in Nigeria of ours that will give a fillip to a downcast spirit. The utmost will to make exploit is sapped and the atmospheric nature of the country is dreary. Still, we look on by and by and hope things will get better. IT CANNOT! I'm not sounding pessimistic but optimism is, most times, supplanted by a sullen and crest-fallen mien. Everything is just not working. I think i am sounding like the Biblical Jeremiah but the more we shout ourselves hoarse, the more degenerative things have always remained.
From the demeaning and the trivialization of our educational sector via the reduction of the minimum average score to 120, to the massive industrial strike embarked upon by every sector (ASUU and NARD) with another one roaring in the offing, to the profligacy of the politicians, we can summarily conclude that we are programmed to doomsday. We are always treated to obscene rhetoric which could be adjudged as a strategic moves to ameliorate or massage the flexing power of the striking sectors. Good leadership should ideally be on the outlook for solution but Nigerian leadership are always reactive rather than being proactive. NARD (national Association of Resident Doctors) had given the government 21 days warning to meet their demands else they go on strike which was protracted by adding another 7 days making a total 28 days as an admonition, but during these days, the government did not deem it fit to find a lasting solution or call the "warring" parties for soothing and compromising meeting to drop their menacing demands. The whole 28 days was exhausted and now, we have a full-scale industrial strike on our hands. I wonder and ponder on the ilk and motley of leaders who are insensitive to the plight and woes of the common Nigerians. There are people who solely depend on the federal government for their long-lasting ailment and with this strike, we can only imagine what will befall them-deterioration or demise...WE ARE DOOMED.
Students of varied Universities are also at home for only God knows when and this is not unconnected to the abdication of responsibilities by the leaders. MoU was signed but not redeemed. Their emolument enters every month with the attendant office perks; but we, the rank and the file, live in abject poverty with utter insouciance. WE ARE REALLY DOOMED.
Nothing is working in Nigeria and until we rise with fierce to take our country back from the debased and deranged politicians touted as good leaders, we are in for the long haul. We can keep the hope high but the question has remained on my lips that IS NIGERIA ACCURSED?
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