Today is the 5th day of the new year and am very angry. This is quite abnormal considering that normally it’s a time that still qualifies for some New Year jolly making. My anger stems not from concerns for my personal life noting that this is a time individuals review their personal plans and aspirations but am angry at the way we Nigerians have mastered the silence and coping craft.
Why won’t i be angry? We live in a country where we have permanently gone silent and numb. Nothing bothers us any longer. We have become so submissive that even in the face of foolishness we do not ask questions. Or how else can we explain the apparent lack of information about the whereabouts of the President or that of his health after 45 days of uncertainty. The Vice President, Ministers, Senators and House of Reps members are in the dark and no one is bold enough to say anything or so we are made to believe. So who then makes up the government?
I still can’t believe that all those masquerading as leaders in the country at the moment still don’t see anything wrong about the seeming lack of direction in government activities due largely to the absence of the president.
In a country with a constituted authority, we have been kidnapped by a so called “kitchen cabinet” consisting of very few Nigerians but who have clearly proved to us that they are more equal than all of us ala George Orwell’s animal farm.
For God’s holy sake, why are we confirming for the umpteenth time that Africa is bedeviled by sit tight presidents who even in the face of total lack of capacity to function in such positions can be honest enough to themselves to hand over to much more healthier individuals. What is our problem? Are we so obsessed with power that we do not know when holding on to it is sheer stupidity?
So what exactly, does the VP do? Wake up in the morning, take care of petty transactions that have been ceded to him officially and then simply wait on God to heal the President, that he himself is not sure of his ailment. What a country!!!
Why all this form the basis of my anger, the real concern is the apparent lack of organisation by we Nigerians to demand for responsible leadership. If we are harassed during elections by policemen, are we harassed to voice our concerns again, atleast its one of our democracy-given rights.
In a country of over 140 million people, just a paltry 55 leaders and over 100 lawyers are the one’s speaking for us. Others including me have become internet warriors, patriots, nationalists!!! Don’t we see that we actually deserve the kind of leadership that we have? A silent government for a numb citizenry!
Upon that we are endowed with short memories that we can neither remember the last three national issues before the president fell sick nor follow them to logical conclusions even if we could remember. We have accepted our fate as a passerby in the Nigerian project. We behave like slaves and serfs who have no right in our own country. Citizens would not behave like us. They will demand answers for every question and call to order any abhorrent behaviour. We have condoned all sorts of shits and now all we do is just waiting for God.
God himself must be very angry with us by now, because how else would we explain the blacklisting of the country that already is in the dark about its own existence because sometimes I wonder if we still have a government. God has no business in all this and I mean it. I personally believe that the reason we have been endowed by God the reasoning faculty is to rationally apply it in all situations. Why do we then send our brains on sabbatical and call on God to help clear the mess that we caused with our eyes wide open?
To compound everything, I have a very strong feeling that things might get very bad. If we have been tested by the elite with this kind of bull**** and we simply endure it, we should expect bigger if not larger humiliation.
This country stinks!
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