COVID 19 is turning out as an exposure of the rooster’s anus.
But what I’m particularly concerned about is the dignity of who Americans call Common Joe. I mean who Nigerians call citizen Muda!
There’s no doubt about the fact that the ordinary Nigerian is not given the tiniest amount of dignity by our so called leaders.
Ok! They pretend we are men of timber and caliber every four years when they travel the nooks and crannies of the country seeking our votes. But once we vote for them, they go into voluntary hiding in the confines of the state houses and other places that are inaccessible to the common people.
Some may even change their phone numbers and others’ phones may be permanently with their personal assistants whom they’ve given instructions not to connect them with some riff raff!
Well, I should tell my countrymen that as the ever wise Yoruba will say, ireje o si ninu foto, that is, a photograph may not lie.
Anyway, modern life has put an alteration to that with Photoshop!
I’m personally peeved!!
That’s because I see Nigerians queuing up endlessly, on lines that appear to have no end, for government palliatives. It has even turned out some of the items are not worth the salt.
The rulers, as if hunger knows political affiliation, even descend so low as giving the palliatives to only their political party faithful.
Some folks have to plead with benevolent Nigerians to give them the needed succor.
Other Nigerians who have the means do give to the poor without being invited.
But the problem I have with the Nigerian government is the fact it doesn’t appear to have planned for a rainy day. I still ask the question if Nigeria does have any food reserves.
That reminds me of the fact that Nigerians, generally, don’t ask questions from their leaders. If we refuse to ask questions, definitely there can’t be any accountability.
Then there’s this claim of the lack of data!
Could that be true?
In a country where we have several data generating organizations, when shall we srart thinking of being serious?
At least I know we can get data from Census Commission, National Identity Card Commission, Federal Road Safety Commission, Electricity Supply Companies and so on.
It’s about time we started thinking of electing a government for whom human dignity is a given!
But then, don’t we deserve what we are getting?
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