A STRANDED COUNTRY AND THE SEARCH FOR COMMON SENSE

(By: Comrade AbdulRahman Agboola)

The palpable di#culties confronting Nigerians brings palpitations to seekers of

egalitarian society, as the personalities managing our common wealth seems

caught in cerebral palsy created by shortsightedness of previous administrations

that failed to meticulously manage the resources of the Country.

The Statistics of internationally recognized professionals of Nigeria Origins across

the globe clearly explains the functionalities of intellectualism inherent in human

resources in this Country, these professionals mostly naturalized and acquire

employed survives at the mercy of deep breath taking business risks often dicey

for businesses survival.

A holistic view of governance in Nigeria will convince any sensible citizen of the

retarded state of leadership and dubious followership con1icting with common

sense as the masses su3er series of social deprivations, economic woes and

5nancial ruins premised on terrible and grievous immoralities within the corridors

of power for a very long time.

The change of government recently was eased on the exigent demands for new

phase of governance to conform with the yearnings of commoners for complete

overhaul of the activities of government to address our economic challenges and

that a dollar compete with three hundred naira. If the current exchange rate is a

yardstick to evaluate the general level of deterioration in Nigeria, it means we

have deteriorated at three hundred percent rate, which explains the high rate of

intellectual melancholy and retardation among most Nigerians who have failed to

5nd common ground to set new approach to salvage the Country from further

damages.

Every change of government since 1960 came with hope of economic

advancement and guarantee of better lives for citizens. On the contrary, each of

the governments failed to improve the Country, but added to her woes with self-

serving policies that not only widened the chasm between the haves and the have-

nots but endangered the lives of helpless masses through State sponsored terror

and protection of criminals to frustrate seeming oppositions against their hold.

masses.

As a Country, we abandoned all other natural resources for oil exploration as a sole

dependency for enriching the purse of government for citizens bene5ts, but the oil

has presently become worthless with current realities of oil price, we still depend

on foreign touch to re5ne our crudes for local usage, this misdemeanour has

turned our assets to liabilities as an oil producing Country that regulates the pump

price of petrol at an exorbitant value due to non-functionalities of re5neries and

corruption.

In an era of moral bankruptcy like this, it is di#cult to gauge sincerity of purpose, if

not, one would have concluded that the tension that enveloped the Country a year

Country-Men. Instead of uniting as Nigerians to 5nd reasonable solutions to our

enormous problems, the bene5ciaries of the looted treasury still enjoys the

protection of laws to enjoy their loot while the rest of the people wallow in hunger

and su3erings.

A government is formed to manage the a3airs of the people and protect their

general interest and the failure of any government either at peace or in war to

ful5ll her basic responsibilities on the people, there must be no unholy friendship

with that government. The present administration must clearly deviate from the

trend of previous administrations that recruited unscrupulous dupes as think tank

as they mismanaged the a3airs of the Country.

The implications of having unscrupulous dupes as think tank and executors of

government policies are the shocking revelations of 5nancial recklessness and

corrupt practices of the last administration. The whole system was compromised

by the last administration and most of the key actors that ruined the Country still

led to the change of government, no excuse is genuine enough to justify the slow

performance of this administration as none of the inherited liabilities of previous

administration remain unsolved and the heat is very intense on a common man

with expectation of a better state of living under this administration.

When a Country is stranded, the economy will continue to worsen until citizens 5nd

the common sense to strategize and act productively to abate the economic woes

that befalls them, else the Country is doomed to collapse and government labeled

as irresponsible.

Assuming Nigeria is a new Country that inherited all these liabilities from a Colony,

should we consider all the human and natural resources inherent in this Country as

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