Youth, grenade waiting to detonate

By Dumebi Nduka

SIR: The current situation in our beloved country Nigeria is not only sad but depressing. From the killing of the peaceful protesters to stocking of Covid-19 palliatives meant for the people and coming up with different lies and excuses to cover up the mess.

I am one of the many Nigerians that didn’t believe the minister of humanitarian affairs when she said her ministry shared palliative to all the states in Nigeria. But with the discovery of warehouses in almost every state in the country, one can see much sense in what the minister meant when she said that palliatives were shared among the states of the federation

The questions that keep ringing in my head is – Why did they store what was meant to for the people during the lockdown and hunger period? So many Nigerians died of hunger while some did terrible things just to feed their family and themselves during the period. I am not in any way supporting the lootings of the warehouses but the truth is that Nigerians are hungry and some people have the audacity to lock away essential supplies in a warehouse somewhere for reasons best known to them.

You and I know that a hungry man is an angry man so don’t put so much blame on the people because it’s obvious that our officials do not feel their pains and let not one pretend not to know that majority of Nigerians are hungry and cannot afford three meals a day. Any excuse for keeping what belongs to people and failing to share them when they needed it the most is flimsy and unacceptable to God and man.

Nigerians now know that politicians are the ones creating monsters out of the people because of their greed and selfishness. And now, these monsters are fighting back. It’s amazing that politicians are gradually making themselves enemies of their people; surely, no one will escape their wrath when they are let loose.

The EndSARS protests are more like testing the microphone and from the looks of things the next protest will be end bad governance and it’ll come like a massive wave without sparing corrupt leaders and their families.

If you continue neglecting your people and the clock strikes, don’t think that leaving the country will save you, because this generation of youth will fish you out and come for you in any country or hideout you are in this world.  I call on corrupt leaders to pocket their greed and selfishness and make Nigeria work because the youths of this generation are like grenade waiting to detonate.

• Dumebi Nduka, <dumez112@gmail.com>