A call for change

I would like to write briefly about a serious national condition, it is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything that we Nigerians hold dear. It is a condition that comes from the lack of effective leadership, either in the Legislative, executive or judiciary branch of our government.

I write as a drained youth, I write as a tired student, I write as a frustrated Nigerian citizen. 

This country is now seen as a joke and the citizens puppets. The youths are tired, we no longer see our future in Nigeria, we go to the higher institution out of a sense of duty and at the end of it all we are faced with a backstabbing truth that even after all the education, there's no automatic employment for anyone if you're not well connected and aligned with a personality in a high position who can sneak your way into forging a job for you and so because of that many youths have resorted to the easier way to be self dependent by what they call `YAHOO' which originally is internet crime or cyber fraud but they don't see it this way. 

We pledged to be one Nigeria, one nation but we are fighting within and against ourselves, slaying our own throats, in a very honest opinion I see no reason why the Nigerian national anthem is still being recited because it is obvious that we are already going against the words doctrinated and embedded in the anthem. 

We vowed to live in peace and Unity but all I see is commotion and suffering. The rich become richer and the poor poorer and as my colleagues would say `this life is no longer balance' and while we have people wallowing in abject poverty, we have other people in the nations highest offices rubbing their bellies from consuming too much. 

We swore to respect our beliefs and cultures, to be our brother's keeper but where are we now? In the midst of war, chaos, malice, unforgiveness, hatred and bitterness against one another, in the midst of the political brouhaha that states that`anything goes'. And now it has even come to a stage where the people in power keep seat of power for the unborn to take over. The thirst for more power has engulfed the minds of the government that they are now willing to do anything to retain the seat of power even if it means killing innocent masses. 

It is high time for the Nigerian government and its members to do some real soul searching and to weigh their consciences as to the manner in which you are performing your duty to the people of Nigeria and the manner in which you are using or abusing your individual power and privileges. It is high time that you remember how you have sworn to uphold and defend the constitution. It is high time that you remember all the promises and sugar coated words you said during your campaigns that now seem so vain. 

I believe I am writing on the behalf of all the citizens of Nigeria and we will not stand to watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, one drama to the next. Nigerian people deserve better from those to who we entrust our nations highest offices, and yet the administration which has brought us to this state will seek for another four years of weakness, indecision, mediocrity and incompetence. We trusted our leaders to take us out of slavery into freedom and not into a higher level of slavery. We had hope, even if it was just a tiny bit of hope for our political leaders to bring us into liberation. 

It's time to revive Nigeria, it's time to stop all the silly acts the government tries to pull on the citizens, it's time to restore hope to the hopeless and home to the homeless. It's time for Peace, not the peace of the grave or security of the slave but genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes the earth worth living, the kind of peace that makes life in Nigeria worth living. It's time to re-examine our own attitudes as citizens of Nigeria and as a nation, the revolution of our nation may not be so sudden but it can be gradual and so it is better for the process to start now.
We should bear it in mind that there is not a north Nigeria, east Nigeria, south Nigeria or west Nigeria. There is only one Nigeria, one nation, one country, one people. It's time for a change.

Peace out☮️🕊️