NO LONGER AT EASE In Nigeria By Ikenna Oodo
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| President Buhari and Ikenna Oodo |
There comes a time in life when silence is betrayal. There is no reason why anyone whose voice could be heard and heeded in Nigeria should maintain sealed lips at this point the country is in comatose. Nigeria is dying, President Buhari is meticulously spearheading her decimation. Everybody is apprehensive and crying foul.
The only person who is not crying foul in Nigeria currently is that mad man on the street who has crossed the Rubicon of moral consciousness. Aside that mad man, the rest of us, including the haves and the have nots are crying foul.
After loosing 2011 presidential election, Buhari broke down in tears, people said he has so much passion for his country. Today, all of us have seen the passion. The passion for treating us with undisguised disdain. The passion for deliberate neglect of security of lives and property. His passion for Nigeria is everything but patriotism
There is hardly any body living in Nigeria now who is not feeling the hit. While the herdsmen are raiding various farms to kill the poor ones, their counterparts are laying ambush to kidnap the rich ones on the highways and other high places in return for ransom. In extreme cases, they are killed even after paying the ransom.
Moving around in cavalcades of security entourages no longer save the situation. Governor Ortom of Benue had to jump down from his car and run like a primary school pupil when bandits attacked and overpowered his convoy.
Soludo narrowly escaped kidnap recently when unknown gunmen invaded the venue of his Town Hall meeting and gunned down his security bodyguards.
Briefly into his administration in 2015, Dangote's networth slipped from $25 billion to $22 billion. In January 2016, Forbes reported again that his worth further dropped by $3 billion dollars. Two months afterwards, it nosedived down to $14.4 billion. It is currently at $10 billion. It is not unlikely his networth may drop close to nothing before the President finishes the second tenure
Nobody is safe or happy in Nigeria, even children are feeling the rough hands. From what has happened and still happening so far, its obvious Buhari's mission is not far from to kill, to steal, and to destroy the nation.
His Excellency is a collection of woes and calamity. He continually visits the nation with endless pains and miseries.
Upon griping power as a civilian, he devalued the currency, and ever since then naira has been on a free fall and the economy in deep mess.
Buhari first stung me in 2015 when I went back to school with one set of provisions against the two sets I usually return with due to excessive inflation of prices of goods.
That evening, I had gone to get some provisions in preparation to go back to school after midterm break. Customarily, I got two sets of whatever provision I liked. Two sets of cabin biscuits went for 300 naira, and other provisions at friendly prices. I froze when I was told a packet of cabin biscuit went for 300 naira against the initial 150 naira.
I asked why the sudden hike in the price, the seller told me "anyi ño na Recession"
Nigerians are lamenting woefully because President Muhammadu Buhari has cruelly spoliated the economy, mindlessly pauperized the masses with rustic economic policies, clamped down dissident voices, and he is impervious to our criticisms and wailings.
As if that is not enough, he personalize EFCC, other crime commissions, armed forces, for personal vendetta, and turned the Court into a pitiable Chambers of confusion where Justice is merchandized to the highest bidder according to his preference.
We are groaning because the government has bastardized the Educational Sector with incessant Industrial Actions, to the extent that those of us who onced believed that Education is the key to success in life no longer have the courage to say so again.
We have lost interest in Education and almost at the verge of regretting venturing into the four walls of university and not going for apprenticeship after secondary School.
Nigerians are crying foul because President Buhari and his acolytes intentionally turned Nigeria to a Banana Republic and made it impossible for the rest of us to survive through honest means.
He sacrificed meritocracy on the alter of mediocrity, ethnic chauvinism and godfatherism and utter dereliction of Federal Character in his appointment.
It is no longer at ease in Nigeria because the government, after overseeing the organized destruction of the state, democratic institutions and Medical facilities, sneaks to London for medical treatments and personal gratification with tax payers money, leaving the rest of us to die of curable sicknesses due to the dilapidation and owing backlog of salaries of the medical staff.
We are crying foul because President Buhari has enthroned indefinite postponement of peace and good neighborliness in Nigeria. If Fulani herdsmen are not on a killing rampage, dismembering and devouring innocent farmers and their produce, they are on a kidnapping spree: intercepting armless travellers and cathing them away into forest where they are brutally raped and barbecued.
If Boko Haram terrorists are not bombing communities, infrastructural facilities and institutions, unknown gunmen are somewhere unleashing terror on the people. Insecurity is the hallmark of the government of the day.
A country that its leaders run like a criminally mismanaged entreprise is inevitably heading to the limbos. We have reached the point where things are likely to fall apart. It is a matter of time before Nigeria comes ruinously tumbling down like the Tower of Babel. It is no longer at ease in Nigeria!
© Ikenna Oodo
2022
NO LONGER AT EASE IN NIGERIA - Ikenna Oodo
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