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Nigerians love holidays. If there’s something, at least out of nothing the Nigerian government succeeds in, it’s massaging the bruised ego of Nigerians by supplying them with enough holidays to last till eternity.
Or how else can we describe having June 12 as a democracy day in a country(?) with so many proofs of undemocratic achievements.
How many murders have been unraveled? How many high level frauds has government really handled? Is the poorest of the poor’s condition any better?
Don’t even go there. I mean the betterment of life for the common man. What we have instead is bare faced stealing by government and its agents.
One glaring example is the purported claim by government that it’s feeding pupils while schools are on compulsory vacation due to COVID 19.
Another is the plan to renovate the national assembly with a whopping 27b Nigerian Naira. The budget office has denied that anyway.
What about the Aso Rock clinic to which colossal amounts are allocated every year? The clinic can hardly treat a common case of flu.
For Nigeria, it’s not yet democracy. Indeed, Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder. It’s just a revolution waiting to happen.
However, the leaders have been successful at playing the ethnic game.
But then, for how long?
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