The recent events in Nigeria’s houses of senate and
representatives are nothing short of ridicule. I cannot imagine that the new Nigeria’s
legislative houses would degenerate to this level of irresponsibility in such a
short time.
I cannot come to terms with APC’s definition of change when
majority of the representatives are from APC and coming to a common ground in
selecting heads of Senate and House of Representatives is tearing the houses
apart, then we are in for yet another house of commotion.
If these are the bunch of people to make laws on behalf of
the so many millions of Nigerians, then Nigeria is far from starting its supposedly
change process.
They have inaugurated Nigeria’s houses of Senate and Representatives
on sore footing, How does the ’legislethugs’
who have gone to the extent of fighting on the floor already before any serious
work is done hope to make the right laws
for the nation?
‘Yeye dey smell’
A nation needing urgent emergency fixing has started its journey
yet again in a vehicle with deflated tires.
The driver is drunk and all the passengers are sleeping. The imminent
crash would be catastrophic.
When would Nigeria learn from history and started doing the
right things? If I have the power to, I would
have liked to get a good ‘koboko’ and land a torrent of thrashing on the bums
of our new legislators so they can sit tight and do their jobs right.
How the legislators sleep at night surprises me. They are so selfish that the interest of
Nigeria is not their top priority. If it was, they would sort their asses out
and stop creating unnecessary uproar in the houses. How do we explain that the legislators who
was only voted-in less than 3 months ago cannot decide who does what in the
houses in a peaceful way? It’s indeed a great shame.
Seeing this bunch of 'legislathugs' causing any impactful change
in the country within the next four years appears to be unrealistic. I am beginning to think that Nigeria is under
an evil spell and needs urgent exorcism and to appease the gods of the land in
order to avert sudden collapse. Nigeria can
do without the distraction coming from its legislative houses at this time in
its nascent history.
President Buhari is yet to put together a cabinet after 3
months of his election, I hope he will do before clocking a year in
office. Nigeria has experienced a series
of accidental-presidents who do not have any prepared agenda for the country. They come to power saying silly things such as;
it’s the will of the gods that I am there, good-luck or providence has shined
on me. They struggle to get any grip of
the humongous problems that have bedevilled Nigeria over the years. Nigeria does not need another clueless
leader.
President Buhari is coming across as a huge surprise to me,
having been a former military Administrator and also contested for president 3
times previously, I expect him to have a loaded and well tested agenda and also
a solid team in place to hit the ground running immediately. But for him to
still be at this stage now without a cabinet of his own calls for concern.
President Buhari is currently junketing the world begging nations
and their leaders to come to our aid because the mess he met on ground is too
much for him to handle. I don’t know about you, but that rings a bell for me and
clearly points to another accidental-president who does not have any ready-made
plans to tackle Nigeria’s internal issues.
President Jonathan went to Paris at the peak of Boko Haram’s
onslaught to lick the boots of French president begging for them to purse Boko Haram
terrorists out of Nigeria. He sat in
that room looking naïve, clueless and disoriented. The leaders he ran to was close to saying ‘ndo, we will help you our boy’. He came back to Nigeria not knowing the
direction to follow.
President Jonathan lost the battle with Boko Haram even
before they finished building their monitoring station in Sambisa Forest. They had room to expand, kill, maim, and take
possessions of towns and villages. Boko Haram had a full time killing Nigerians
like chickens; they hung murdered body of innocent Nigerians on the cross like
criminals, took over towns, kidnapped and raped our girls in open day light. They
recruited kids, impregnated our girls and made slave our women and yet we say
we have leaders and a country.
Where is the giant in us?
“Don’t say that Abiola”, someone interjects.
“We are the giant of Africa, the largest black nation in the
world, the most educated and with the best in military paraphernalia in Africa.”
“Oh cut the crap.”
An average Nigerian has built a big castle of deceit in their
heads. To them, nothing is something.
They have furnished themselves with so much lies that lies have become
the truth. Nigerians are the most
deceived people on planet earth, the sad part of that is that, they don’t know
that.
Without sounding immodest, many more of us will die wishing Nigeria
was a great nation, but that may never come to pass in this generation.
Someone interjects again;
“Stop saying that because the bible says bla bla bla,” “oh
spare me.” The bible has been saying
since Christianity was introduced into Nigeria, but nothing has changed. Nothing would ever change, because we do not
need the Bible or God to cause the change.
God already gave the change a long time ago, we only need is to accept
the change into our head and minds and begin to do the right things. Sadly I do not believe we are ready to do the
right things, maybe not just yet. I rest my case.
Abiola Olaifa writes from UK.
Site: www.abiolla.com.
Email: abiolla@abiolla.com.
