The socio-economic atmosphere in the country is so obfuscating and choking from the systemic oppression of Tinubu who has only shown gross incapacity to lift the country out of its bleakness and desolation. With the harsh economic reality, he has no choice but to confront the situation, arrest the socio-economic bedlam, and paddle the ship out of troubled waters. It is said that drastic situations require drastic interventions to arrive at solutions. Unfortunately, he is more interested in chasing the rat while his home is on fire, a manifest trait of oppressors. He intends to go to war in Nigeria Republic to dislodge the coup makers there.
To do so he will have to dip his hand into our common patrimony to execute his errant fancy that will ensconce him as the de facto ruler f West Africa. Tinubu is unaware that the masses of this country need, and rightly too, the resources of this country and a concentration of labour and brains, as well as the concert of all Nigerian patriots to topple the economic quagmire and render relief from the abounding hellishness. The perquisites from the humongous resources of this country do not belong to government officials alone. The masses are also entitled to the wealth to them as of right.
Unfortunately, Nigerians, except their family members and cohorts, have lost confidence in the ability of government to make the country a better place for all. We citizens just want an environment where we can at least breathe some air of sanity and freedom to undertake our daily activities and endeavours. The dilemma is that our rulers have conspired with criminal elements operating freely all over the country and making life hellish for Nigerians through senseless and ceaseless killings, abductions and armed robberies.
In the face of these, Nigerians contend with state agents who also contribute to make their existence unbearable through harassment, brutality and extortion by uniformed men, deprivation of basic human rights by intimidation and repression, and undue frustration of private businesses with excessive taxes and levies. There is oppression everywhere in the country by the sweeping oppression through the subjection of the citizens to untold harassment, persecution, subjugation and exploitation, with the tacit and unequivocal corroboration by the government using its agents.
In Nigeria, advisors and other players in government do not tell their superordinates the truth but deliberate concentrate on falsehood, distortions and shameful misinformation of the people to retain their positions, as well as financial and material accoutrements to sustain their feeding on filthy lucre, immoral and corruptive patronage by the political class. Because they run government of the politicians by politicians for politicians, they steal our common patrimony in such humongous breadth that leave them permanently swooned. Whatever benefits that ought to accrue are eroded by the harsh economic implications it will unleash on the people.
Lest we forget, Nigerians are not unaware that corruption, low productivity, insecurity and mismanagement of Nigeria’s oil and gas assets and resources account for the country’s fledgling economy and attendant woes, creating near impossibilities towards meeting its obligations of growth and development, as well as security of lives of citizens. The people of Nigeria must reject the idea of dishing out palliatives evocative of their penchant for tokenism towards Nigerian masses. This signifies their arbitrariness, power drunkenness with which they slam down the throat of the people silly concoctions of futile policies and programmes.
Experience with Buhari’s palliatives programme indicates that it was not only a sham but a rip off of Nigerians’ common patrimony. The refrain – poverty alleviation and eradication are mere worthless expressions. None can be realised. To lift the people from poverty, government must emphasise the production of real wealth, real goods and services within the country with those responsible for creating the wealth deriving the highest benefits from it. This will involve improving the capacity of individuals to realise their inherent potential and to effective relieve them of the chaining circumstances of their lives.
There has been no change in the affairs of this goddamned country. From the colonial times to the present time, they have operated the same type of economy, operated the same kind of politics. The same class of masters, same criminals who were either in the civilian or military, and they are recycling themselves in power, ensuring that younger Nigerians are impoverished and alienated from the seat of power. Nigeria ought and should be run like the developed climes where citizens’ rights are granted without encumbrances and their lives endowed with value. The people must now come out from their shell of docility and complacency to demand their right for the good things of life endued to them by the creator, the Almighty God. The time has come for the people to stand against encompassing oppression all over the country.
Oppression comes in diverse forms. It is synonymous with domination, coercion, cruelty, tyranny, subjugation, persecution, harassment and repression. It could be political, economic, social, cultural, religious or domestic. The variations of oppression manifest to varying degrees in every society. In Nigeria, oppression in all its naked diversity is rampant and even seems to have become a way of life. When the state or the government, through its agents, happens to be the oppressor inflicting agony on its own citizens, then we are inevitably sliding back to a dark past when people lived subhuman lives under colonial masters.
The organizational profile of the Nigerian social order is that of “democracy” of clientelism and prebendalism – two kinds of perfidious power management which end in massive material and financial rewards for persons involved. Nigerians are disgusted with the stinking corruption oozing out from the dingy offices in Aso Rock, the ministries and agencies, transforming into a political Golgotha of corruption. In the present dispensation, it will be brutal in this Tinubu’s Babylon, wherein there will be manifestation of monumental waste and iniquity.
The last administration worked assiduously to permanently and perfectly erase the rule of law, justice and equity, and to sell the autonomy, integrity and sovereignty of the country to Nigeria’s foreign enemies.
Tinubu is struggling to beat Buhari in the ignoble enterprise. It has done that shamelessly junketing from one part of the world to another, and it has done its best to bring out the worst in Nigerians while Nigerians groan in misery of crushing lack, hunger and poverty. Like Buhari, Tinubu is bending over backwards to burry what remains of the rule of law, justice and equity using its directive principle of state policy to corrupt the people so as to easily blackmail them into silence.
Lest we forget, Nigerians are not unaware that corruption, low productivity, insecurity and mismanagement of Nigeria’s oil and gas assets and resources account for the country’s fledgling economy and attendant woes, creating near impossibilities to meet its obligations of growth and development, as well as security of lives of citizens.
The people of Nigeria must reject the idea of dishing out palliatives. The people must now come out from their shell of docility and complacency to demand their right for the good things of life endued them by the creator, the Almighty God. Those left behind and forgotten must rise now and rescue the country from the derelicts and decayed captors of our country. The time is now.
