Nigeria’s infernal crises and the need to go back to the basics
By Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach
The present looming situation of Nigeria is definitely teaching us to go back to human to humans enterprises – grassroots helps.
Government is no longer an option for us. We see how our executive, legislature and judiciary have blocked democratic parameters and workings in our dear Nigeria. Nigeria is neither going backwards nor forwards.
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What we see and hear from our leaders is nothing but progressive failures. Some of our religious leaders tell us to pray and endure till there is nothing to defend. Some of our politicians do encourage us to bear current situation as good things are forthcoming from the hardships – unfortunately without emerging or established evidence from the governance. Some of our intellectuals keep feeding us with twisted activisms on mechanism for personal interests. In these regards, Nigeria is ingloriously and fast approaching end of scholarly democracy.
Nigerians rich in everything have been left with nothing due to how the situation is projected by the current administration. Only the wealthy citizens can sleep for reasonable hours with happiness.
Average citizens barely help others because of current situation whereas; poor citizens die of hunger and disappointments, daily. Yet, our economy is not looking promising. While the indigenous intellectuals especially economists and public policy experts have advised presidency on how to manage economy averagely and with superfluidity – unfortunately, the presidency has totally bought legislature and judiciary to establish and regulate meaningless and useless things that are having powers of adding more pains and sufferings.
The worst of all, heads of pressure groups have compromised with the government in one way to another. For this, nothing is working any longer. Hence, poor citizens no longer have people to fight for them. What a pity nation!
Therefore, having seen how the nation is strangulating poor citizens, it is better we begin to give hands of help no matter how little and always make time with one another in order to reduce depressions – sudden and incessant death of beloved ones in this trying time. However, even in the middle of this, Nigerians should be courageous to challenge misappropriations of the current administration. If we don’t do this, we may not have a nation for our next generations. May we not see this – so be it.
Shadrach writes from Abuja.
