Nigeria

The Nigerian leaders have led the non-politically inclined Nigerians into unimaginable doom without a possibility to retract to their intended way of living.

A burning image in mind: people are led farther away from the supposed light at the end of the tunnel. They are plied and pacified with promises made by those who fight for power during election campaigns. And after the elections... Those who get that power feel unconcerned the made promises must be fulfilled. The past leaders had since time immemorial sealed this country in abject poverty, and the newly elected follow the familiar unchanging path.

One can say, the book by Chinua Achebe, "The Trouble with Nigeria" is a prediction, a prophetic writing with unrivaled clarity. One can feel his pain for our country and for what's happening with it and for what will become of it. Same pain that is familiar to most of Nigerian people who just try to survive the next day.

All that is happening might elude some elite Nigerian population. Surely they will say it is all falsified and nothing what Chinua Achebe talks in his book is true about "their own Nigeria". Nigeria I talk about is not the make-believe euphoria of that elite circle, where rich people’s children drive fancy cars, play basketball, and have nannies and gatemen. I talk about the Nigeria of complete darkness, days or weeks without power. I talk about the Nigeria where salaries are unpaid for months. I talk about the Nigeria where the country's budget of many generations is syphoned to safe deposit vaults in countries overseas.

Who will enjoy those deposits after leaving the destroyed to rabble country without any remorse? Not me, not my people who were led into the darkness by fake promises. Those instead, oblivious to suffering and detriment of my always wailing Nigeria, who will leave the dying country without a single look back at the ruins.

There is no point over-flogging this aspect. What disturbing is the lack of discipline bedeviling the nation at large, as much as the extraordinary cacophony and total despise for things like unwarranted huge allowances for those at power office, amounts way higher than the monthly wage of a common Nigerian or a pension, while being a total failure with the duties at that office. It is essentially right to state, the lack of leadership continues to bring the country down, and now we are told, fighting corruption is the only way to go. But we must still note, it is the "leaders", top party functionaries, those in strategic positions et al who have plundered the wealth of the country in horrific fashion, hence cleansing of Augean stables here is commensurate with cleansing the leadership at large.

The biggest immediate enemy of the masses within is the police, the police I say again, they are used by the elite group (i.e. the supposed leaders) to torment the lives of the common Nigerians who in no way insult, assault or go against the law. The rights in this country is ethnocentrically seized, so before exercising your human rights and/or equality you should be aware of where you are from ethnically. I came across a Twitter post, I can't recall who posted, but it read: "There are only four words to get a Nigerian Policeman angry -I Know My Rights". It would mean worldwide, you are exercising your civil rights as a citizen of the country. In Nigeria though it triggers the 100% illiteracy and 0% humanity, as police members are recruited without any prior examination of character.

This level of hardship, poverty and unemployment rate, the result of inertia and weakness of these leaders who plunged Nigeria into its worst. It will be unpleasant to say, in the 21st century Nigeria is still struggling with tribalism, separatism, poor leadership, lack of patriotism and of course, corruption, the most annoying cancer of all. As unpleasant and unbelievable as it sounds, it's audible to the deaf and visible to the blind in the country.