NIGERIA: where did we go wrong???

For some time now, I have not been myself. I see and hear things that are referred to as abnormal. When I speak, it comes to me knocking (hard) in my heart, when I sleep, it’s like I dwell yet in another world and even when I do what I love most (writing), it’s all that comes to me. The troubles - the insights - the QUESTIONS. 

When did it start? Was it the day I saw a child abused? Or the day children started hawking, the day our educational system fell like Goliath? Oh! Let me refresh your memory – just 20 years ago, JAMB results were brought to our doors, admission letters were given freely and other incentives were added for scholars to be more relaxed but all has changed. Was it the day our politicians started embezzling OUR money or the day religious crises became the order of the minute? Was it when the Biafra emerged or when the Niger-Delta militants wanted a ‘change’ or when the notorious BOKO HARAM had their ‘vision’?

Tell me, when our founding fathers made their sacrifice, was this what they expected? I often hear that, “Great leaders see the end from the beginning”. Was this the end they saw in the beginning? How I wished I was amidst, perhaps I would have influence the outcome of October 1^st.

Everything has gone worst than anticipated. The breeze of death is inhaled in states like Plateau, Kaduna, Bornu and even the South-South region in the name of selfish desires. I hear some call it ‘Religious right’ and others refer to it as ‘human right’ obviously, it is GENOCIDE. Our ‘so-called-leaders’ whom we didn’t even voted into office (to them, rigging is allowed) uses our money more than we use the toilet papers to invest outside the borders of this nation when the average brethren feeds with below 150 naira a day. They even went to the extent of negotiating with terrorists – I wonder when they will stop. Those who pilot the affair of this nation to better end up in peasantry luxury or six feet below the ground level.

Look at the youths, they have been given ‘forcefully’ the title ‘LEADERS OF TOMORROW’ yet the decisions of ‘next tomorrow’ are made by ‘Grand-fathers’. I have had enough.  Am just tired of looking at them – the unemployed youths, they roam around wondering what next to do, I fear they become the devil’s workshop. What about the prostitutes? I can’t even write anything.

This brings us to the questions

I believe that in the darkest storm lies a silver lining. I have heard many times that stories leads to glory. I believe that we have enough stories to go with. I believe that YOU and I have a role to play. I believe we can form an incorruptible army to sweep Nigeria. I BELIEVE in YOU!