If Nigeria is a giant of Africa and we all trapped in here, with our myriad of woes, then there is no point trying to opt out.
We tend to imagine ourselves at the pinnacle of refinement but underneath, is a glittering surface of a cauldron of dark emotions – green,envy,lust,hatred deceptive,violence and more.
Yet, a foreign land can never be like home.What we should do is fix our challenges.
The feeling of having no power over things and events, being unable to make use of freedom of speech and ability to express oneself is unbearable. We feel helpless and miserable but there was once a Nigeria where people can talk and be heard,where their freedom of speech and expression is not used against them. If we can’t have a better Nigeria, can we have the one we used to know?
People are suffering, dying, prices of goods and commodities keep soaring. Kidnapping, killing and abduction are the order of the day. It is sad.
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It is one’s wish for peace, love and unity to reign, but it is so disheartening that either directly or indirectly, we are being stabbed by smiling faces with a hand of velvet glove filled with outright treachery and deception.
In 2015, Nigeria was the third fastest growing economy in the world. Today, we are the world headquarters for poverty. Over 90 per cent Nigerians are living in extreme poverty. How did we get here?
Also in 2015, the country’s debt was N11 trillion,but it has increased to more than N35 trillion. Petrol was N87 but it is now N170.
The Nigeria of our dreams should be a nation where things work,where a thin line separates the rich and the poor; not a dysfunctional contraption where the rich gets richer and the poor poorer.
- Balogun is a Mass Communication student of Lagos State Polytechnic ( LASPOTECH)