Nigeria is a time bomb; a cocked pistol.
Nigeria is on the verge of explosion; and it is expedient that leader-countries
of the global village should act to save Nigerians.
As the society we live in continues to
change, it is only reasonable that things change for the better; but the case
of Nigeria is different. This is due to the pressing concern of obvious and
perceived imbalances in the country.
These imbalances are the central
problems of the federal republic of Nigeria and they ranges from bad road / no
road and poorly constructed ROADS; These
have increased the suffering of the masses who depend on the road to
transport agricultural, perishable and non-perishable produce to the final
consumers in the urban centres. No good roads to move goods and services, no
enabling environment for enterprises to flourish, hence businesses and the
citizenry suffer untold hardship.
Our Nigerian leaders fly on planes [use
aircrafts] therefore, they are insensitive to the plight of the masses
[citizens] who ply the bad and damaged roads just to survive.
One, therefore, begins to wonder what the
duties and responsibilities of Federal Road Maintenance Agency [FERMA] to
Nigerians are.
Nigerians living in the riverine areas
are cut off as our water ways have been abandoned, especially with no genuine
government commitment to the development of water transport system in the
country.
Government is neither doing enough to
create jobs nor employing the increasing army of unemployed graduates.
Our political leaders are responsible
for the bastardized educational system in Nigeria. at the moment, tertiary
institutions are on strike nationwide. The Academic Staff Union Of Universities
[ASUU] has made demands of the federal government on how to improve their
welfare and boost the educational system; but this government has remained
adamant. Students and their parents have
continued to suffer as a result of this ASUU/FG face-off.
In the midst of the prevailing
circumstances, our political leaders have continued to send their children
abroad to study and acquire standard education while the majority children of
the less-privileged, who the nation's Constitution promises education as a
fundamental human right, are left unattended.
As issue stand, it is obvious that
government and our political leaders
have bastardized the nation's educational system.
Ironically, those Nigerians, who enjoyed
free education and readily got jobs upon graduation, in those good, old days of
Chief Obafemi Awolowo's, are the ones
now making life critically difficult for present day Nigerian masses.
In the heat of things, the Honourable
Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. FEMI GBAJABIAMILA,
representing Surulere 1 Federal Constituency posted pictures of himself
receiving lectures at Harvard Business School in the United States of America on
the same day nigerian workers, under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress, were
engaging in a solidarity rally in surppot Of ASUU.
In the same vein, the nation's lawmakers
have recently rejected the bill prohibiting government officials from sending
their children to schools abroad.
This attitude of those in
government is the height of
insensitivity to the myriad problems bisecting the nation.
As a matter of urgency, the current
minister for education and minster for labour should be sacked. Some of our
legislators [law makers] should be recalled.
POOR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Our hospitals and health centres are
nothing to write about as they have become mere structure [buildings] without
basic amenities.
Only recently, Senator Ike Ekweremadu
and his wife landed in trouble in the United Kingdom. According to reports, he was seeking medical
attention for his sick daughter who needed a kidney transplant.
Ekweremadu and his wife would not be in
police net in London if only the Nigerian government improved our health delivery system with the needed
technologies, physical infrastructures and qualified medical personnel’s.
For instance, in the Niger Delta people
are having cancer due to oil exploration in the area and yet there is paucity
of cancer hospitals in Nigeria.
Senator Ben Bruce lost his wife due to cancer;
governor Seriake Dickson also lost his mother to cancer; and Timi Alaibe lost
his wife, Mrs Alaere Alaibe, at age 45 to cancer.
Even President Mohammad Buhari regularly
goes abroad for medical reasons because
we have a faulty health system in Nigeria. Who will turn things around and save
of country.
HIGH RATE OF INSECURITY
Our government and security forces have
failed the Nigerian citizenry as their services are majorly for the high and
mighty neglecting the vulnerable masses.
Insecurity, ranging from kidnapping,
banditry, suicide bombing here and there, maiming, acts of terrorism,
militancy, etc, have become commonplace,
thriving without much resistance from the security agencies.
On the other hand, killer Fulani
herdsmen invade and destroy farmers' crops.
Unknown and known gunmen engage in extra
judicial killing. It is rumoured, and
there are available, clear reasons to believe it, that some Nigerian security
forces have been colluding with these criminals.
Boko Haram is disturbing the peace and
unity of Nigeria. Militants and secessionist groups are heating up the polity
and undermining the sovereignty if the Nigeria state.
It is even more pathetic that our
government, today, negotiate and pay
ransom to terrorists. Who will save Nigeria?
Corruption continues unabated in high
places, despite the existence of the EFCC and ICPC.
Corruption has so eaten deep into the
fabrics of the nation that almost all
Nigerian leaders are corrupt. As a
result, the image of country in the global perspective is laundered and the
elected government is turning a deaf ear to the problems of the nation and
ignoring the plight of the masses that voted them into power.
This is why jakpa escape system, in
search greener pasture, is the new order in Nigeria. The traffic and statistics in airports and
embassies tell it all. People are running away with their lives, leaving the
extremely poor, patriots and the greedy political class to thug it out.
The government, from local, through
state, to federal government, is not proactive and seems to be self-serving.
Nigeria is dying under the watch of
President Buhari, the 36 state governors are his accomplices.
The masses have prayed and are still
praying for the world to hear our cry and save Nigeria. A majority of the
citizens of Nigeria are only using the two last weapon available to them to
liberate themselves and the country. The two weapons available are our voices
and write ups, as ways of protesting, which is our universally accepted fundamental
human right.
Therefore, we ask the world for help.
Our Permanent Voters Card [PVC] should
help us vote our conscience in the 2023 general election.
Let the world support Nigeria and
Nigerians to monitor the election and ensure free and fair election. The world
must help us pressurize the Independent
National Electoral Commission [INEC], to be truly independent and conduct a free
and credible 2023 election.
It is time the world woke up to tackle
Nigeria’s problems and save the country. This is because the world is now a
global village.
When Nigeria, the giant of Africa and
the most populous black nation on earth suffers, the world bleeds.
Nigeria needs the United Nations, UN,
World Health Organizations, WHO, the world powers, especially the United
States, China, France, Russia, Germany, Spain, Canada, Britain and their
leaders, like Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, etc, to rescue the country.
Yours in the struggle
Prince Ekhato Emmanuel Zelinjo, Nigerian
citizen.
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