Thursday 7 April 2011

Nigeria, A failed State or State in the making?

 The question is " is NO synonymous to NIGERIA? My reasons are: 
Every issue in Nigeria has a "NO" before it
"NO Electricity"
"NO Water"
"NO Good roads"
..."NO Accommodation system"
"NO good governance"
"NO Security"
"NO credible elections"
"NO Jobs"
"NO Food"
.......No, No, No and ..........
Therefore, "NO NIGERIA", our leaders are having sleepless nights and trying so hard not to make it work, we pumped so many billions of naira on electricity and yet no light, we have to make do with individual generating sets to supply electricity for personal uses.
Only few residents of the federal capital city know what "PIPE BORNE WATER" is, i don't think water corporation (the arm of government that oversees and controls the distribution of clean and portable water) is in existence in many of our states, where they do exist, they are practically obsolete because no more allocation from the federal government.
Oil, yes Oil, we have it in abundance, but it is more of a curse than blessing, considering the militancy, environmental degredation, corruption, kidnapping and so many vices, we are being impoverished instead of been enriched, i will say it is a black curse and not black gold.
Let's ask ourselves, why can't we get things done right the first time, take the issue of our various leaders' visions for instance, during Obasanjo era, it was "VISION 2010", we (the general masses) achieved nothing, absolutely nothing from the so-called vision 2010, only a litle fragment of the nation (the rich) further enriched their pockets, then Obasanjo left, and a new government came in and introduced "VISION 2020" but later changed it to "VISION 202020" or "202020". Since, we heard and read about huge sum of money been earmarked and spent on this said project, and yet one can not boldly say we are feeling the impact and we are more than half way to year 2020. One would expect that by now we would have a very clear picture of our destination, that is, a land that has some milk and honey if flowing with it would be some kind of wishful thinking.
Do we even need to talk about the General Elections? What "giant" are we if we cannot organise and hold elections as at when due? Smaller countries like Ghana have done so, even troubled countries like Sudan were able to organise a referendum which gave birth to a new Country. Yet we claim to be "the giant of Africa" Our leaders are not doing what is expected of them; they are only concerned about their pockets. Their election promises are what we've heard before, yet things are the way they were. Where are we really heading to?
"I leave that question for my opponent to answer"

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