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Only Nigeria Does Unexplainable Things
It is sad that our country has become a laughing stock, though am not surprise because this is the only country that does unexplainable things. Imagine! This is the only country that runs a gold mine at loss. This is the only country that is importing what it has in abundance.
This is the only country where there will be fire outbreak but fire fighters would have no water to save the situation, despite being surrounded by water. This is a country where oil productions are produced at disunity. Her textiles are houses for rags dumping hall instead of being a new cloth production centre.
This is a country where there is no security, but sends troops to keep peace in another man’s land. This is a country that has dams, but no water. So, citizens drink ‘pure’ water that smash up their viscera. This is a country that has enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed itself.
This is a country that is blessed with vegetation that can sustain farming all year-round but have not been able to harness the resources effectively. The lands are fertile but we choose to import foods and commodities. This is a country that can produce anything, but import everything.
This is the only country that mints its currency abroad at a cost more than the value of the currency itself. This is the country where darkness persists while the countries we gave electricity enjoys it (despite the abundance resources). This is a country that runs her economy with generating sets which is even detrimental to human health, with fumes so hazardous to the environment. This is the country where its leader prefers to pay millions of dollars for medicines abroad than fixing the hospitals back home.
This is a country that has hospitals without doctors, medicines or power. All the nurses have left the country and the rest are already preparing to leave. It has the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world and future generations are dying before her. She’s hopeless, hapless and helpless and even every other ‘less’.
Our land is dead because of deforestation; over-flooding destroys property worth’s of millions during raining season because the drainage systems are bunged up; the fish are dead because the oil companies dump waste in the rivers; our communities are being eroded by erosion, and nothing is being done.
This is a country that has been sucked dry. She produces rice, but don’t eat it. She has millions of cows but no milk. Her citizens drive the best cars in the world but have no roads, so she crush her best brains in the caverns, craters and crevasses they crash into daily.
This is a country where the roads are pit of hell. The roads are full of drum holes not even pot holes. The railway corporation is begging for attention and the water transportation is no more. To climax it all, there is no good transportation network in this country. This is a country where transportation has become a risky business.
This is a country where its school has no teachers and its classroom has no roof and its students listen to lectures through windows. Her classrooms have no chairs and table, so students sit on the floor. This is a country where we have million candidates craving to enter universities, but our prison can only accommodate a tenth. This is a country where its professors have gone abroad, and the rest are awaiting visas. This is a country where we produce university graduate, but almost all are illiterates. Educated illiterates are all over this country.
This is a country that her youths have no past, present nor future. Her youths are now political thugs used by the desperate power seekers in paving their ways to the seat that belongs to the people’s choice. The youths are now ‘James Bond’, walk the streets of all cities. Imagine! The futures of this country are hustlers, drunkards and drug addicts. The young ladies have been trafficked to abroad for God-forbid business. The youths are now skilled and professional kidnappers.
 This is a country that those who looted the public money walk the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private planes. They have looted the future of generations unborn and have more money than they can spend in several lifetimes, but their brothers die of starvation. They ought to live the rest of their lives in ‘kirikiri’ (a prison with tight security in Nigeria). This is a country where corruption is rearing its head virtually from every angle of the national life.
Her traditional rulers are intensely corrupt, Godless and very dishonourable in their conducts. They placed priority on money and wealth acquisition even to the detriment of their positions and the society at large. This is a country that has dullards as constitution makers and irresponsible lawmakers which are also lawbreakers. They want mind-boggling allowances as members of the legislative houses; they want to get paid for laws they never get to make or even obey. This is a country where there are selfish Federal Executive Council members.
Her political platform is filled with old folks. Her political ladder is climbed by rogues, daft, imbeciles, nonentity, social misfit, social miscreants, street urchins, nuisance, vagabonds, nincompoops and the likes.  Her politicians are the greatest disappointment on the global political highway. Her leaders failed to protect citizens from human tragedies of corruption, greed, violence, war and inability to organise a free, fair and credible elections.
This is a country where the leaders don’t want to work. President wants to ride executive jets and feel nothing about providing basic needs. Their wives live big and they see other people wives toil day and night for stipends. They want to build houses in places of choice and so be able to protect themselves from the nuisance that the rest and exhaling to let out frustration and take rational decisions.
 Her leaders’ indiscretion, predilection for corruption and wealth acquisition, jaundiced policies, lack of visionary and robust leadership at all levels; nepotism and godfatherism have been the bane of her development since independence in 1960. Her political ‘heroes’ are people who jump from poverty to extreme wealth rather than those who give up their riches and positions to voluntarily serve the poor.
This is a country where the citizens can do anything to get title; those who find it difficult to get a diploma do buy a Honourary Doctorate Degree. We now here of pastors before preaching, they introduce themselves as Senior Apostle, Prophet, Primate, Evangelist, His most Superior, Deacon, Deaconess, Reverend, Canon, Oniwaasu and the likes. Even a mere councillor can make your stay in the village a bitter one if you forget to add Honourable when calling him, since he his addressed as ‘Area Father’ by his thugs.
This is a country that is ruled by men in mufti, but not a democracy. This is a country where big men stay in their houses and write elections results. Her elections are won through intimidation and brutalization of people, snatching of ballot boxes and killing of opponents. Her elections are won by men and women who are unfit to win an election into their wives and husbands bedroom. This is a country where the electoral system is nothing to write home about but some politicians are using this defective system to get to power.
Her Police Force has a historical knack for corruption, consistency, torture, blackmail, armed robbery, suppression, oppression, repression, extortion, intimidation, murder et al.  The policemen are all criminals, they aid public misconducts. They are like a rotten carcass. This is a country under robbers’ siege; their weapons are the best.
This is a country where corruption has progressed from Arithmetic progression to Geometric progression. This is a country where most of the people are corrupt; they look at every action taken as part of the things flowing from corruptive tendencies and system. This is a country that has yet to overcome the bogeys of mindless corruption, sectionalism, ethnicity, religious, bigotry, and self-serving politics of intolerance and lack of commitment to national ideas since 1st of October 1960 (Independence Day).
During election time, her people behaves like the pastor who was admonishing the congregation to follow Jesus, in rain or sunshine, in peace or war, or whether fire is burning or whatever, but when a rat ran past his feet in the pulpit, he jumped out and was screaming ‘the blood of Jesus’ and calling the names of the angels, from Gabriel to Raphael, to Raphael, to Michael and Uriel.
Her judiciary is like a house divided against itself, one side doing the job the way it should be done and the other side vertically sabotaging the reputation of the judiciary. The reputation of her judiciary is coming and going like the death and rise of ‘ABIKU’ and this portray her judiciary as another ‘ABIKU’ in disguise.
This is a country that the future of her judiciary is without focus. The rays of justice are gradually fading out. The tom-tom of justice, vindication and of hope that uses to beat in the heart of the citizens wherever a landmark judgement is delivered suddenly went silent. Court judgements are also rigged. This is a country where judges now become perverse of justice.
Her Christians and Muslim cleric are now sycophants of desperate office seekers. They fraternise with the public office holders without telling them the raw truth about the unprecedented depravity and poverty imposed on the majority of 140 million-plus people of this country. Pastors and Evangelists has left the truthful way and now leading the people to Sodom and Gomorrah (the land of destruction). Her Gospel Musicians are sons and daughters of Jezebel. They are now the latest and hottest harlots.
This is a country where a man elevates himself to the position of God; hardly can you convince him of his mortality; that he is just like an ordinary being.
This is a nation where money is better preferable to good name. This nation is not just a haven of different species, but a ‘nation and people’ wallowing in the quagmire of absurdity.
Governance has failed in Nigeria and we have failed ourselves also.
WE NEED TO RE-THINK. IN THIS COUNTRY