A COUNTRY IN FLAMES?

A country as blessed as Nigeria is not expected to be trudging or dragging herself to the mockery of other countries. We are a laughing stock, nay, a butt of their jokes. We do not command any respect neither do they accord us with a scintilla of dignity. We display our nakedness to the glare of everyone and we cloak ourselves with the garb of ignominy. Nigeria is a shame! It is disheartening but regardless of our surfeit of diatribes, she remains the same. We do not budge from our disgrace. We just shrugged off as if nothing had happened. Someone once said that we are resilient people; very sturdy and virile. We might be buffeted by winds of mismanagement and maladministration but we are always quick to rise like phoenix from the ashes. What a gory comparision! On a quotidian basis, we wake to benumbing news that are heart-rending and emotion-sapping. We wonder and ponder if anything could come out of our Jerusalem. Anyways, none of our hopes regardless of how lofty it is formed should be dashed owing to the ineptitude and inefficacy of our "professional politicians" ( a phrase couched by Reuben Abati).
Nigeria is Godly-blessed with multifarious natural resources; cocoa, oil, timber, latex and whatsnot. These are veritable resources which could be used to transmogrify our lots. However, these natural resources are exploited by our professional politicians for their venal libido. We live in abject poverty while they ostracized themselves from us...luxury, deluxe lives they exhibit. We tear in fear but they cheer in hotels. The common and often bruited- around fad is that politicians are meant to serve the masses who massively and overwhelmingly voted for them with the intuition that their status quo could be salvaged from insanity and inhumanity. What a delusory thought! They foment our sufferings more than they met it; salaries unpaid, gratuities cooling, infrastructures degenerating, impunity reigning supreme. Such acts and many ineffables are enough to stir the hornets' nest within the electorates and mark the gestation of revolution. Revolution with all indexes is in the offing. It will come like a rustling wind breezing with sheer coolness but its advent of depredatory ravageness. They can revel in their toil for the moment but it is inevitable. (people are ranting and raving)
1963, shortly after independence, was regarded as the best of years for Nigeria and Nigerians; true federalism on display, basking in the euphoria of budding independence, the regions having control over their natural resources with healthy competition and doing the needful of remitting the accrual to the centre, regional development and innovation on the rise etc. However, with the punctuation of the smooth sailing of the governance by the Military interregnum and their fascist disposition, Nigeria was thrown into an abyss of underdevelopment which was growing at the whims and caprices of the tyrants.
The military government took over and everything became shambolic and in total disarray. We are treated as nonetities, non-numan and their reign trumps the colonisation which we spiritedly rebuffed and rejected as their draconian laws meted out became unbearable.
The country became heated and race, ethnic and religious prejudices became the bane we have to unendingly contend with till this moment. Justice is tilted to the highest bidder. Injustice pervades the land and sanity seems far-flung. Goodluck Jonathan, former President Of Nigeria, was in the saddle and the North was up in flames and arms. The government was sabotaged and subverted. They claimed of being marginalised ad infinitum. Now, their kith and kin are at the helm and the sing-song has shifted to the South. This is a vicious war of vendetta or revanchism which does no one any good. we reside in the same clime but the hatred is palpable. The only thing that weds us together is just sport (though along ethnic stratification) but sport does not fill the hungry stomach.
Recently, the Senate out of presumed greediness or an attempt to safeguard the potency of the power voted against the devolution of powers to the state to allow them to make certain decisions for the betterment of their citizen. This does not go well with lot of people as they believe that feeling the pulse of the starving or needy masses is incumbent on the proximity and the power to adjudge ceded to the State and Local government honchos. A clarion call and advocacy for a return to the regionalism and federalism has reached a cacophonous level and unless the government listens to the stricken noise, as the topic of this piece depicts, it will be in flames. The Niger-Delta Avengers despite their lowering of arms and ammunition to resort to table to trash out their grievances have threatened to destabilise the polity again until their 16 point agenda is met. A while ago, pipes were vandalised and this affected massively the flow of economy in the country. We are still suffering from the aftemath of their act which any rational-thinking person should not allow to reoccur.
An attempt to allow their threat materialise will be devastating for the country. The loss might be irreparable and unquantifiable. We are on the edge of the precipice and until something considerable is done, we are really in for it. A plea to the Senate to reverse their stance over the devolution of power if they really have the interest of the populace in their heart and ensure that wrongs are made rights. The extent of the threat is unknown to anybody just like war. It is better to nip it in the bud rather than allowing it to go septic or rank which might be difficult to curtail. Love trumps all but love without equity and empathy is no love but an invitation to the deadly unthinkables.
God help Nigeria.

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