NIGERIA: A MOMENT FOR REFLECTION
*Shola Adebowale
Being called a Nigerian, while abroad is like being mocked, you will always try as much as possible to know and understand why you are being referred to as, a Nigerian. The term Nigeria, is like an euphemism for the worst of mankind: a criminal, a crook, a cheat, an evil monster, or a sick person.
And while at home, being a Nigerian ,is the worst nightmare anyone can ever wished for, it is like holding on to physical life amid a great deal of psychological death. And most often like being stolen from, all your life time saving and the crook sees you the next day and condemns you as a lazy man, for being poor.
Nigeria has found it extremely hard to evolve into a nation-state, while all attempts had failed woefully. Nigeria, as a nation ,has only be serving the special interest of just some few microscopic group of people, who continue to use all power in hell to enslave the majority of the people of Nigeria. And they continue to use the worst weapon of mass destruction known to mankind, to achieve their aims and objective-POVERTY.
By inflicting crunching poverty on the Nigerian people, amidst such monumental wealth, they believe, they would for all eternity enslave the nation and its people, to do their bidding and so it was and is and definitely is to come. And that is why majority of Nigerians suffer from Stockholm syndrome and the leadership from psychosis.
Since political independence in 1960, Nigeria as a country has been presented with two great opportunities to become a great prosperous nation:
1967- Arab-Israeli Conflict.
1991- Persian Gulf War.
These two significant events, marked unprecedented wealth to Nigeria, giving the nation a monumental fulcrum to build up its institutions: among others, education, science and technology and sustainable infrastructure without any encumbrance or succumbing to the dictates of Bretton Wood. But like any other prodigal characters in history, the nation frittered such golden opportunity away, without blinking twice.
As Nigeria celebrates, its 52 years of political independence, there is nothing to celebrate but rather a cause for retrospection, of all the great opportunities that the nation has lost and the way forward.
Nigeria has refused to work, and we don’t need a century to prove that, half a century is enough. Nor do we need a sorcerer to tell us. We need to ponder on any means whatsoever to deep sixed this ‘edifice’ and as soon as possible.
Amidst such monumental natural endowments: Nigeria as a country cannot boost of a 100 kilometer of a stretch of road that is motorable and secure: nor drinking water in any of its city: energy or electricity, a major fulcrum for industrialization and entrepreneurship, is like a will- o’-the wisp: most of the cities in Nigeria, reflect of a war wrecked society, with ramshackle, rickety infrastructure: the schools are merely like poultry and the hospitals like chemists.
And on the faces of the people, you wont but notice hope,’sufry and smilin’, but you are always sure that, they are hopeless. For nothing destroys a man more than living amidst a sea of wealth that you can never enjoy.
Today, with the presence of Curiosity in Mars, mankind is making giant strides all over the world, in the spirit of a new millennium of unfathomable opportunities, breaking all frontiers that once limited mankind. But Nigeria as a country is still stuck in the past centuries, when darkness permeate the landscape and the shout of ‘Up NEPA’ was the vogue just for a less than an hour power supply. This is a very serious paradox that needs a lot of serious moments of reflection and not some childish mass frenzy.
A nation that cannot guarantee the wellbeing of its people, their safety and security, have lost ‘every’ legitimacy to be called a nation.
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