Because it is essential to the open intellectual life upon which a vibrant
democratic political culture is built and maintained, Nigeria has no
alternative to harnessing natural resources, promoting prosperity, protecting
the right of every citizens and planning and or balancing the economy on
freedom, equity and justice platform. As Robert Burns would say it, here’s
freedom to him who would speak. Here’s freedom to him who would write. For there’s
none ever feared, that the truth should be heard, than he whom the truth would
indict.
The government is the servant of the people, not their master. Its job is to
listen, respond and deliver to that which is demanded by the people. Whereas
‘poor’ Nigerians has never asked for anything other than the basics, food,
shelter, he even careless about clothing, somehow and combination of two out of
three is okay. On a scale of happy and sad…Nigerians are on a permanent
frustrate, living a life of barely survival, subsistent living, less than a
dollar a day and living expenses stand at about $8 a day, how we cope with
transport, feeding, contingencies are nothing short of magic, but for how
long…Universities along side graduates now produce robbers, churches and
mosques are manned by con-men, we have become vulnerable elements.
Take a sample survey and you will be shocked at the results, Nigerians may be
naive, docile but interestingly they are not ignorant, they know the thieves,
they know those men and these days women too that have crippled them
economically. They know that neighbour that was riding an old battered Volvo
that went to the State House of Assembly that has six cars now. This is why a
lot of us have advocated that the militants rather than court foreign and
international sentiment which they are not likely to get by kidnapping
‘albinos’, they should start kidnapping government officials, governors that
have raped them mentally, economically and otherwise. A lot of commentators are
out there taking stands, off course no one can be totally neutral, but how many
have thought of the people, the real people. If ex-president Obasanjo thought
of us he would not have diverted PTDF money into manufacturing guns comically
named after him, OBJ 006…What slap on our face, we are not at war,
Benin-Onitsha Expressway is in shambles and millions are spent in manufacturing
guns.
Any project meant for the masses is treated as a “no money” matter but when it
has to do with the insatiable ego of our toy leaders, money comes out. If you
are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the
oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that
you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
In
justice, crime a virtue, roguery a skill, despite the best of efforts of the
EFCC it has been riddled by inconsistencies, though it was and is still worth
the try. Between two crooks, Obj and Atiku, one is the oppressor and the other the
oppressed. Have these two former execu-thieves not violated a
constitution in the nation that calls for protection of national interest?
Where is the peoples’ sovereignty that empowers the government? I learnt the
primary objective of our government is to secure and ensure the welfare of
Nigerian populace; then when is this practiced. Painfully all that the past
government has done, it said that it was done for our good, yet we do not see
the good and this makes the words of C.S Lewis most apt, he said “Of all
tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the
most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under
omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point
be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without
end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. Ex-president
Obasanjo and co. have the approval of their conscience when they kill the
public school system and allow for the growth of all sorts of nonsense in the
name of private schools, they have the approval of their hearts when they go
from Germany, London and Saudi for treatment, and we watch as the India,
Singapore, Malaysia turn their health system into state of the art. They have
approval to treat us anyhow, most times with our permission but those days will
soon be over, the poor will soon take revenge, we pray that it is done in
palace manner if not, anarchy looms that day, because the poor know where they
live, how they live, and will strike without sympathy. It is better to die for
an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die. The day of
reckoning is around, Nigerians will seek out revenge, and there will be
something worth dying for sooner than expected.
We have lost sense of belonging in government. In everyday language,
democracy is understood as a form of government closely linked to the people. Isn’t this the apex of insanity. For
heaven sake, there are people in
cannot have a single meal in a day! Some idiots are planning to spend almost a
billion naira to swear in an illegitimate government. Wonders shall NEVER end
in this nation. This country is obviously sick.One thing is sure, all the
citizens are to blame for this stupid acts played out by the useless leaders
and politicians everyday. These Politicians are just CRAZY, they are insane.
That money can fix one of the Federal Roads that have become death traps. There
has not been efficient or functional power supply even if you can conveniently
pay for it. There may be no fuel to run the noisy and environmentally
unfriendly generators. Nigerians have no known options to blackouts. It is a
hard reality of life. It depicts cruelty. This deficiency of power supply has
aided the mass poverty as thousands of people have been put out of job since
many companies can no longer sustain their operations in the absence of it. The
huge amount sinked into NEPA alias PHCN remains a diverted sum in place of
subvention. It would possibly get water to some rural village or some deprived
part of the city.It would save lives from the hospitalized poor, It would send
the handicapped intellectuals to school,
it would in fact take the nation to another level; at least to a level we would
be debating on global warming rather than millennium goal that would had been a
thing of the past.
We all understood that the assessment framework is based on the belief that
democracy should be defined by its basic principles or values. These include
“popular control over public decision-making and decision-makers, and equality
between citizens in the exercise of that control”. The belief behind assessment
exercises is that governing arrangements and procedures can be considered
democratic if these principles are respected and implemented. These principles
are further defined as covering notions of: “participation, authorization,
representing, accountability, transparency, responsiveness and solidarity, yet
our leaders are money-abused and power-drunk, lacks focus and irresponsible. A quick trip round
views on the perception of
can reveal much. It is very annoying actually to see the reality of life in
everyday
in contrast to the deceitful jingles and praise singings that the government
and sycophants orchestrates. What we see and what we get as Nigerians is not
what we deserve. We deserve a better life.
