That Ogun State will become forty years tomorrow is now stale news. However, what I find unbecoming is the manner the State Government declared a public holiday.
They said it was declared yesterday night. The government might have forgotten that most people do not enjoy constant power supply in Nigeria. Personally, I do not even know if there will be holiday tomorrow since it is the actual anniversary.
For a government that did not just wake up to celebrate, I think the people deserve at least, a week’s notice. But that is in a case where the people matter.
Today, so many people had gone to work before discovering that there was a holiday. People who had transactions to perform in the banks also found the banks under lock and key.
The most painful one was the case of pupils who had gone to school for the day’s studies. They were disappointed to find many of their school gates locked.
Many of them were taken to school by drivers, some were only given transport fees to their respective schools with the agreement that their parents would come and pick them at the close of school. Inevitably, some of them would have become stranded.
One can go on and on!
By the way, if Mr Mohammed Buhari, the President of Nigeria, is coming to launch some projects, what is the business of those who have nothing to do with those projects to be there. Would it not have been better for him to visit some schools and find them in session. When I was a pupil, we used to line up to receive ‘august’ state guests. I tend to think that is no longer fashionable in this age.
In any case, that was when the country was ‘good’. Now, we should be seen working to make our Naira a currency of respect again. However, someone said we were practising a ‘militocracy’ in Ogun State.
Are we?
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