It makes me laugh some times, and drives me to distraction at other times, how we have come to define and pretend to practice democracy in Nigeria. Democracy in the Nigerian context has a uniqueness that defies logic and turns the notion of an accountable government on its head; its distinct abnormality has elevated insufferable reprobates to positions of political power, business stalwartness and social famousness. The dysfunctionally-arranged political structure has, for over five decades, ensured the perpetual impoverishment of ideas, a clear absence of direction and a paucity of strategies. The calamity of where we are now is that it's got so much worse that all hope is almost extinguished. The greater calamity is it's most likely going to get even worse. As naturally incurable as my optimism is, it's difficult for me, personally, to see any upturn in our fortune any time soon. Events of recent times have exacerbated the sufferings of the Nigerian populace, and proclamations by the airheads in office have just been plainly conflagrative.
The recent events that point to the forlornness of hope in our country are too many to highlight, but what prompted me to furiously type on my keyboard today is the senseless deaths of tens of people that resulted from the stampedes at various locations for recruitment into the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS)
Let's look at the figures: around 520,000 job applicants up and down the country chasing just a little over 4,000 jobs. That is an average of 130 people chasing just one position. As if that wasn't terrible enough, these poor folks had to pay N1,000 each for the privilege!! Now, can someone tell me in whose pockets the N520m-odd ended up? Would anyone with a modicum of conscience ever dream of robbing these unfortunate souls and take advantage of their pitiful situation? How many countries in the world do job applicants have to pay for the privilege to apply for a job? Can anyone, please, be kind enough to educate me?
The recruitment agent contracted by the NIS for the exercise was one Drexel Nig. Ltd. Before I started bashing my keyboard with absolute venom, I tried to check it out, it doesn't even have an Internet presence!! Can you imagine? To be able to assess the ability of an entity to conduct an exercise of such magnitude, mustn't one, anyone, be able to check it out? I couldn't be bothered to even check if it's a registered business entity or not, because even if it were, who bothered to check for its suitability for such a task? In this Internet age, why couldn't applications be completed online? If applications were done online, couldn't successful applicants be shortlisted for further recruitment exercises? Why must everything be so lopsided and senseless in Nigeria?
The bereaved families are now burying their dead. Pregnant women, young men and women, graduates of all disciplines, school-leavers, all hopeful of a better tomorrow in spite of the hopelessness of today. Who will pay the price for the brutality (for that was what it was) meted out to people whose misfortune was largely brought upon them by thieves in power? Eternal curse is upon the heads of those that through their action, inaction, ineptness, greed and corruption, innocent people are starving and dying needlessly. The eternal curse will extend to those who abet them. The blood of the innocent will not go unavenged. That's as certain as night follows day.
Condolences are now flowing from the mouths of the accursed. They might as well stick their condolences where the sun doesn't shine. Common thieves. Callous rogues.
The recent events that point to the forlornness of hope in our country are too many to highlight, but what prompted me to furiously type on my keyboard today is the senseless deaths of tens of people that resulted from the stampedes at various locations for recruitment into the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS)
Let's look at the figures: around 520,000 job applicants up and down the country chasing just a little over 4,000 jobs. That is an average of 130 people chasing just one position. As if that wasn't terrible enough, these poor folks had to pay N1,000 each for the privilege!! Now, can someone tell me in whose pockets the N520m-odd ended up? Would anyone with a modicum of conscience ever dream of robbing these unfortunate souls and take advantage of their pitiful situation? How many countries in the world do job applicants have to pay for the privilege to apply for a job? Can anyone, please, be kind enough to educate me?
The recruitment agent contracted by the NIS for the exercise was one Drexel Nig. Ltd. Before I started bashing my keyboard with absolute venom, I tried to check it out, it doesn't even have an Internet presence!! Can you imagine? To be able to assess the ability of an entity to conduct an exercise of such magnitude, mustn't one, anyone, be able to check it out? I couldn't be bothered to even check if it's a registered business entity or not, because even if it were, who bothered to check for its suitability for such a task? In this Internet age, why couldn't applications be completed online? If applications were done online, couldn't successful applicants be shortlisted for further recruitment exercises? Why must everything be so lopsided and senseless in Nigeria?
The bereaved families are now burying their dead. Pregnant women, young men and women, graduates of all disciplines, school-leavers, all hopeful of a better tomorrow in spite of the hopelessness of today. Who will pay the price for the brutality (for that was what it was) meted out to people whose misfortune was largely brought upon them by thieves in power? Eternal curse is upon the heads of those that through their action, inaction, ineptness, greed and corruption, innocent people are starving and dying needlessly. The eternal curse will extend to those who abet them. The blood of the innocent will not go unavenged. That's as certain as night follows day.
Condolences are now flowing from the mouths of the accursed. They might as well stick their condolences where the sun doesn't shine. Common thieves. Callous rogues.
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