The grind goes on and on and on. The grinders are full of vim, and there is no sign of them letting up any time soon. Long-suffering Nigerians still await that apocalypse with studied temperament and considered patience. After all, why disturb your enemies while they are busy digging their own graves, and writing their own epitaphs of infamy? The cracks among their ranks may be plastered over but they are there; they are real; and they are permanent.
Universities are in perma-lockdown while the PDP government devotes all of its time on party issues. The future of our country has been mortgaged to such an extent that it will take a monumental effort on the part of the lamentably few committed agents of change to turn things around. There's no such thing as education in Nigeria: teachers unable to read and write, students resorting to fraud, armed robberies, prostitution and the like. Still, these illiterate politicians fold their arms and carry on stealing, regardless!!
Economy has ground to a halt mostly because of the free-for-all grand larceny in the oil sector and the massive corruption at all levels of government that Nigerians have lived with since its infancy. Okonjo-Iweala comes up with economic figures so impressive one would think she's the long-awaited Messiah and Nigeria is the best run economy in the history of mankind! Her economy is always ahead of forecast, still more than 95% of Nigerians go hungry daily and tens of millions of able-bodied Nigerians are without hope of a job or a realistic prospect of a better future.
Hospitals now exist mainly to let people die rather than get well; most of the activities are now in the mortuaries. When our politicians have a slight headache, they rush abroad at our expense. So, why should they care?
Our roads have been left to effectively serve as culling agents; after all, the less the population the better for the thieves in office. Moreover, why should they really care? They've got their fleets of jets and helicopters. Who needs roads when you've got those?
Security? Don't even get me started on that! The word has no meaning to the political class of 2013. The primary responsibility of government has long been abrogated, or else, why would the job of safeguarding our oil pipelines be given to militants? Billions of Naira expended on security contracts and still billions of dollars in oil revenue pilfered annually. See what I mean?
The battle for 2015 is now Jonathan's preoccupation, nothing else matters. Oh my! What a blind rat this Jonathan really is! What a spineless dung of a fella! He has run the ship of state aground and, still, he wishes to continue navigating. I feel nothing but total disgust and absolute contempt for this ninnyhammer and inveterate blunderer.
One glance at the alternatives on show does not inspire much confidence. What has the APC done to affect the perceptions of Nigerians about their motive? Naked ambition to grab power will not endear them to the people. The current opposition is just as bad as the party in power, in the sense that we do not know what they actually stand for. Rhetorics will not solve the nation's woes nor warm our hearts. Vitriolic attacks on the government's manifest failings will not just do; we want to know what alternatives you propose to bring to the table. The breakaway PDP is just a sick joke. Did they really think they could bamboozle Nigerians with their pretentious demands and agitations? The only satisfaction we have is the crack among their ranks. They are all guilty by association and deed. When the day of reckoning comes none of them shall be spared.
October 1st is only a few days away now, and no effort will be spared to waste hundreds of millions again on this meaningless occasion. Independence Day has long lost any significance for Nigerians, and they only see this as another opportunity to stuff millions of Naira into the bottomless pockets of party grandees and sycophants. It will also be another opportunity for the infernally corrupt Jonathan to further stake his claims for another four years in office.
Nigerians are groaning under the strain of the near-impossibility of life, and in our darkest hour, such peculiar mess is being fostered on us. This deadly combination of intellectual paralysis, moral blindness and emotional detachment is on its last leg. Succour shall surely come.
Universities are in perma-lockdown while the PDP government devotes all of its time on party issues. The future of our country has been mortgaged to such an extent that it will take a monumental effort on the part of the lamentably few committed agents of change to turn things around. There's no such thing as education in Nigeria: teachers unable to read and write, students resorting to fraud, armed robberies, prostitution and the like. Still, these illiterate politicians fold their arms and carry on stealing, regardless!!
Economy has ground to a halt mostly because of the free-for-all grand larceny in the oil sector and the massive corruption at all levels of government that Nigerians have lived with since its infancy. Okonjo-Iweala comes up with economic figures so impressive one would think she's the long-awaited Messiah and Nigeria is the best run economy in the history of mankind! Her economy is always ahead of forecast, still more than 95% of Nigerians go hungry daily and tens of millions of able-bodied Nigerians are without hope of a job or a realistic prospect of a better future.
Hospitals now exist mainly to let people die rather than get well; most of the activities are now in the mortuaries. When our politicians have a slight headache, they rush abroad at our expense. So, why should they care?
Our roads have been left to effectively serve as culling agents; after all, the less the population the better for the thieves in office. Moreover, why should they really care? They've got their fleets of jets and helicopters. Who needs roads when you've got those?
Security? Don't even get me started on that! The word has no meaning to the political class of 2013. The primary responsibility of government has long been abrogated, or else, why would the job of safeguarding our oil pipelines be given to militants? Billions of Naira expended on security contracts and still billions of dollars in oil revenue pilfered annually. See what I mean?
The battle for 2015 is now Jonathan's preoccupation, nothing else matters. Oh my! What a blind rat this Jonathan really is! What a spineless dung of a fella! He has run the ship of state aground and, still, he wishes to continue navigating. I feel nothing but total disgust and absolute contempt for this ninnyhammer and inveterate blunderer.
One glance at the alternatives on show does not inspire much confidence. What has the APC done to affect the perceptions of Nigerians about their motive? Naked ambition to grab power will not endear them to the people. The current opposition is just as bad as the party in power, in the sense that we do not know what they actually stand for. Rhetorics will not solve the nation's woes nor warm our hearts. Vitriolic attacks on the government's manifest failings will not just do; we want to know what alternatives you propose to bring to the table. The breakaway PDP is just a sick joke. Did they really think they could bamboozle Nigerians with their pretentious demands and agitations? The only satisfaction we have is the crack among their ranks. They are all guilty by association and deed. When the day of reckoning comes none of them shall be spared.
October 1st is only a few days away now, and no effort will be spared to waste hundreds of millions again on this meaningless occasion. Independence Day has long lost any significance for Nigerians, and they only see this as another opportunity to stuff millions of Naira into the bottomless pockets of party grandees and sycophants. It will also be another opportunity for the infernally corrupt Jonathan to further stake his claims for another four years in office.
Nigerians are groaning under the strain of the near-impossibility of life, and in our darkest hour, such peculiar mess is being fostered on us. This deadly combination of intellectual paralysis, moral blindness and emotional detachment is on its last leg. Succour shall surely come.
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