Nigeria
is a country blessed by God immeasurably, but also a country which is among the
least developed in the world, a country which has become both paradoxical and
preposterous. Every year, trillions of naira are voted for various
developmental projects, which end up inchoate, leaving the populace further
devastated and ravaged by hunger and disease.
A country of misplaced value and
inverted social economic misappropriation, a country peopled by complacent and
in different masses who relish subjugation to liberty and freedom.
What of the lesson from our
immediate neighbour –Ghana? Few years back, Ghanaians were immigrants in
Nigerian, their males polished our shoes and their females warned the beds of
our bachelors and even some of our married fathers. Now, just the iron will of
one benevolent politician- Jerry Rowling changed the destitute position of the
entire people of Ghana and reversed the tread of things, so that today, our
ladies are painting the street of Ghana red with their womanhood, while our
male are doing the most dastardly jobs for the Ghanaians. Even our rich
politicians are quite happy to get admission for their children in Ghanaian
universities. What a Metamorphous! No wonder, the few eminent Nigeria both
living and dead have at various cried for our country.
The eminent Prof. Wole Soyika a man
I am proud to make a paradigm, once warned, “ I could small the reactionary
sperm, long after the rape of a nation”. Till today, and since then, the smell
of the reactionary sperm is still on the air, choking Nigeria masses in form of
unemployment, under employment, disease squalor, hunger, corruption, ten
percenters, embezzlement, corruption, misappropriation, ethnic-ism, and
selective application of rule of law among others.
The Governors and President each
year set a caching on what should be their expenditures and it runs into
trillions. This sum is approved for them by the Houses of Assembly in what is
called budget. In less than six months, they have frittered away the sum in
unfathomable venture and they run back to the Houses of the law makers with
what they call ‘supplementary budget which sometimes equal the main budget. The
houses immediately approves it because this is where the booty for sharing rests
so that in less than one year of coming to political office in Nigeria the
politicians would become landlords in such highly developed countries like
America, Germany and others. Meanwhile a senior civil servant who is honest
cannot own a serviceable motor cycle.
It has been stated quite after than
no nation rises above the mentality of her citizens, therefore until Nigerian’s
political class erases the mentality of super rich and supper poor and wear the
mentality of we are all human beings, no re-branding or image laundering can
cure our malaise. It is wise saying that the servant
is not more than the master, But in Nigeria, our representative who were sent
to hold political offices on our behalf have become our lords. That is the
extent of our development and that is the major object of re-brand.