Opinion : My Country's Palava, Where Are We Going?

Israel Victoria 

Sigh! Nigeria, another day with another problem, we are all living with no hope for the future, everyone trying to figure out life on their own in a country with corrupt and self centered Leaders, no interest of their citizens at heart. The only thing still keeping our sanity is probably the music, celebrity paparazzi and the trolls on social media. Oh! did i forget to mention that our politicians and top security officials are now comedians too. Different drama everyday (read the news).

we have clan that massacre people all in the name of grazing their cows, the lives of able bodied men is nothing compared to the life of their young calves, meanwhile a mother who ought to push the motion of putting an end to the senseless killings defended the motion, discarding the issues as mere agitation reason being that Nigerian loves to eat Maggi (seasonings).Not to mention forcing people to give up their source of livelihood for cow colony. Nigeria is a 36 state country with each state having their own boundaries, so why the trespass? Why is the government not doing anything setting aside tribalism and religion?

Obviously only in this part of the world that animals swallow government funds and absolutely nothing can be done to retract it, fiction that can only happen in Disney movies until now. How can we be shallow minded and allowing ourselves to be played and trampled upon by the government, have you ever wondered what all that huge unaccounted missing government funds would do to the development of this Great country which is gradually going down economically .We are nowhere to be found when it comes to technology, research and development and yet our reputation for corruption keeps gaining world recognition daily.

Even our Religious clerics are not left out in the matter, the church is now a home to magic where at the touch of your pastor's manhood the barren of many years will get instantaneous babies and the gulp of insecticides and antiseptic can end the trend of poverty in ones life. Do you know pastors are now part of the Gucci gang, that sounds funny though, they no longer wait for their rewards to come from heaven; through brainwashing and the fanatic preaching of tithes and offerings they compel their members to give to the house of God but instead use it for the lifting and propagation of their own gospel.

I am not against any church or churches as the case may seem, the Islamic clerics too have contributed immensely to the Problem  of this country, remember the group-Boko-Haram  was formed and grown into full blown terrorist group under their watch and teachings.

Subsequently, they are always first to protest and seek redress of any decision or policy that affects but keep absolute mute when it is done to the other religion. I even heard MURIC is suing Falz a famous musician whose latest song portrays the ills in our society.

To the most recent of them all, the Senate President Alhaji Bukola Saraki and the Governor of kwara state were both indicted as the master minds of Offa robbery which has been unveiling shocking revelations every day, how can this be? What kind of leadership example are these leaders portraying? What kind of legacy are they leaving behind? I am not surprised that the yahoo boys in my country now justifies their fraudulent activities, claiming that they aren't the real criminals but the present day government that sits in the comfort of their homes and offices looting public funds that is supposed to be for the masses.

However, I am of the opinion that this might be one of the political pranks we see on television, considering that the senate president is one of the people against the second term of the president-President Mohammed Buhari.

If the police are going to indict the Senate President on the basis that he owns political thugs then they should begin from their godfathers because the use of political thugs during and after election, it’s so peculiar to the Nigerian political leaders. The apprehended suspect confessed to the crime and that they were sent by the Senate president but then we should ask what he needs the money for? Is he that broke and desperate that he would stoop low to rob banks knowing fully well that the plan might boomerang?

These were my thoughts before i heard a big bang on my door that the food i was cooking in the kitchen of my face me, i slap you apartment has burnt to coal. How can this be, knowing fully well that was my last hope of keeping body and soul together… This country, I must make it in this country or die trying i kept consoling myself before retiring to bed.