Our democratic journey since political independence from the British colonist has remained in default mode for 6o years plus. We have not changed nor have we made any improvement that will assuage the ever goliable masses and give them glimpse of hope.
Even when the masses has remained hopeful by believing in the overdose democratic pills with it’s attendant venom called 1999 constitution and her twin evil the Electoral Act.
Our consistent failure to redesign our institutions of governance for ultimate productivity and credibility has deepened the lack of institutional trust which the people has on the government.
The nation’s creed has literally everpourated in the minds of citizens living us as a people without directions.
How can we explain to the world that our institution like INEC which have a professor as chairman yet can’t effect institutional changes in terms of deliverables as regards credible and acceptable election processes.
Of what value is education?
“Education is the only, most viable instrument that refines the mind, putting the brain into the highest level of creativity for the benefit of all mankind”
INEC has become a den of crooked minds dishing out election results like undone bread coming out of the oven of a mad baker.
They defend the indefensible. They choose the citizen to jilt and the one to support in a legal challenge orcastrated by their gross incompetence as if both the defendant and plaintiff are from two different countries.
The security institutions of Nigeria are now politicised along political parties.
Police is now part of the area boys of the vicious political elites, while other security agencies follow instructions from ghana must go bags not the rule of law or constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria if any exists. Indeed we have lost it.
Never in our history have we lost so much confidence in our security institutions like now.
There’s inmoral war being waged by the elites against the poor citizens.
The worst part is that those who are saddled with high level of national responsibilities are the major culprits in defaming the nation’s ethos.
Our hope has failed to be renewed despite the renewed hope agenda of the present administration. How can we renew our hope when life has become hellish in our country.
How can our hope be renewed when there’s systematic ethnic cleaning going on in the country.
How can they convince us to keep hope alive, is it in our silent graves? How can a president give a CBN governor instructions to carry out unanalyised economic policies that costed hardship to the people and made billionaire out of crooks and the CBN governor is prosecuted and the president who superintended over such policies is sleeping away in the comfort of his house. One country many laws.
“Any nation whose symbol of justice is broken, equity frozened, is a nation dotted with wild unconscious beings whose humanity is pitifully disabled”
I’m not afraid to note that the elites are not only calling for revolution but hopefully a violent one.
“The strength of the commoners are the robes of the nobles. If the commoners are weakened through the deliberate actions of the nobles, the dynamics of change will naturally be activated and the nobles will end up in raggs instead of robes”.
No nation can survive this kind of unconscious leadership foisted on the people for this long.
Since 1999 till date we have consistently be living in deficit economically. Hunger ravages the people and poverty is now our garment.
The last hope for the common man has literally become the most dangerous gallow anyone can approach.
Our courts has lost it’s steam while the judiciary is now for the bussires. Laws are interpreted to suit the haves while the have nothing weep openly to an unremorseful and unrepentant judicial hangs men whose gavels hit the hope out of the common man.
We have lost it when citizens who commit known felony boastful ask fellow citizens who are hurt by their action to go to court. This sad audacity demeans our bench and bar equally. We can’t pretend all is well in our country when known crooks associated with high velocity electoral brigandage are institutionally protected by the state while decent citizens are left at the mercy of terrorists.
Our nation is drifting into the unknown due to lack of pragmatic leadership.
We have become a colony of happy slaves. Which is the most debased human state of mind anyone can be subjected to.
We are feed with fake and unsustainable economic situation data rolled out by our national bureau of statistics just to deceive gullible Nigerians. Yet no one queries those in charge. Rather they are been rewarded with promotion and cossy offices. What a country.
We lost it when the immediate problems of our national legislatures are expensive SUV vehicles while fellow citizens are in the den of kidnappers. No one care about the effects of insecurity on the nation’s GDP.
No it’s the problem of the commoners.
We borrow from foreign land to fund the extravagant lifestyle of security chiefs and their families. As long as the C in C, governors and minister are protected any other citizens can go to hell they don’t care.
Citizens has resorted to self help both in security and economic outlooks.
“Leadership that cannot coin out ideas for sustainable development is an infidel leadership with dishonest and disgusting Certificate of Return”.
We can no longer wallow in abject poverty in a country abundantly blessed. It’s no longer acceptable.
I call on Nigerians to demand for a forthright leadership. It’s our right not a privilege.
“The docility of citizens upon visible maladministration of common patrimony that leads to socioeconomic strangulation is an advanced receipt of mortuary bills. Let us refuse to gladly die. Let’s challenge those political morticians and live”
I call for a revolution to rescue Nigeria. We have no other country to call ours than Nigeria.
Our country is our pride, our dignity, our identity and our last hope on earth.
“The pride of any citizen is their nation. They fail to love, defend and protect her, they lose their eternal identity thereby inadvertently seeking colonisation. Unfortunately it’s a fatal misconception for any reasonable person to think that a colonist can gave the colonised a dignified identity”.
Dr Omenazu Jackson.
Chancellor International Society for Social Justice and Human Rights..
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