It is no secret that Nigeria’s ruling
elite are cruel, amoral, unfit for the office they hold. They are all fucking
morons. Ironically, this hasn’t stopped them from becoming presidents,
governors, ministers, and what have you.
Though the citizens are aware of their leaders’ flaws, they choose to be willfully blind, dumbed down, and misinformed. Both citizens and leaders are deficient in self-respect and courage. The oppressed are afraid to rattle the cage of their oppressors.
There’s no accountability for the thieves. Kleptocracy is the hallmark of the president, governors, and other elected officials. They see their positions as a personal ATM. The country has been so demeaned and the people so deranged enough to keep electing sickos into office time and time again. What a buffoonish country!
Rotten from inside and desiccated, the country is staggering into
oblivion. At every given opportunity, the people keep voting for the worst
legislators in the history of the world. Each group of legislators proves dilatory
and more irresponsible. Never have we a National Assembly more vicious, and
less capable of seeing forests for trees.
There is a relationship between power and madness. History is replete
with rulers driven insane by overreaching themselves. The Nigeria case proves
this to be true. We are governed by a government controlled by a band of a cabal
of vandals, a nihilistic brigade who sees the government as their property.
Nigeria is where the oppressed joyfully handed themselves over to thieves and
lunatics to preside over their affairs.
Strange and scary things happen on a daily basis. A soldier is being
detained for complaining for fighting terrorists without weapons, without being
paid, and without being fed. 356 soldiers fighting terrorists resigned due to
the government's failure to take care of them and their families.
Billions of money meant for citizens to cushion the economic impact of
COVID-19 were pocketed by those in charge of the fund. Attorney-General,
Malami flouted the country’s CDC’s COVID-19 guideline on the public gathering by
holding a society wedding party for his son with six private jets ferrying
guests from near and far. He gave two multi-million naira mansions as wedding
gifts to his son.
Legislators took delivery of a brand new SUV fleet costing billions
during COVID-19 pandemic while their citizens are dying of hunger, disease, and
being ravaged by COVID-19. State governors convert civil servants' salaries into
their personal money while workers are unpaid for months. Legislators donate
electricity poles, wheelbarrows, loaves of bread, boreholes, ropes, wires,
buckets, blankets, pillows, soaps, and other bizarre things as “empowerment
tools” to their constituents.
Fourteen million or so school-age children roam the streets. Education
has been totally destroyed. Students learn in dilapidated buildings and in the
most hostile learning environment. University graduates are unemployed as ‘Danfo’ drivers
and ‘Okada’ commercial bike riders. Workers are unpaid for
months and even years. Chinese factory owners in Nigeria treat Nigerian workers
at best as indentured slaves and at worst as disposable diapers.
Moribund hospitals, contaminated drinking water, death trap roads,
epileptic electricity supply, shanty public housing, and non-existent social
safety net are some of the problems citizens contend with every day.
Lawlessness, injustice, and other wildlife characteristics form the new
civilization. Armed robbers, Fulani herdsmen terrorists, abductors, kidnappers,
roam freely for prey. In short, there’s no one in charge. You’ll expect all
these to ignite mass unrest. Instead, citizens continue to defend, plead,
appease, praise, and are ready to die for the same people that destroyed them.
President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana sums it beautifully: “Nigerians are still in
love with their oppressors.”
The Nigerian situation defies all logic. Are we a country of morons,
imbeciles, or idiots or all of the above?
By
Bayo Oluwasanmi
*Bayo Oluwasanmi is a commentator on
public issues
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