A Country of Diametric Extremes
The country is so broke that it cannot pay the salaries of November in December. However, majority of our leaders have activated squander mania mode.
The country that cannot pay its workers decent wages but is paying 200+ million naira to feed palace animals.
A country that pays its professors less than ₦400 thousand a month but sends its academics to other nations and pays them close to ₦2 million a month.
A country where the only fully paid for industry is politics.
A country that sponsors, according to government conservative estimates, 400 people to Dubai for semi-tourism activities but cannot sponsor its R&D section. Yet, it wants to develop.
A country where coercive apparatuses commit manslaughter with no consequences because it is a mistake.
A country where politics is an institution of self enrichment where youths learn by seeing on how to embezzle public coppers.
A country where those in government govern for themselves.
A country where the more you steal, the higher the chances of you living as a multimillionaire through plea bargain.
A country where anti corruption bodies have to lobby to someone who has his investigative file with such investigative bodies for their budget to be passed.
A country where budgetary provisions are worthless papers.
A country where corruption is a crime on paper and a cherished value in practice.
A country where minority lives in criminal affluence and majority lives in third person induced poverty.
A country where the leaders don’t know the led and the led hate their leaders.
A country where the rich keeps getting richer and the poor keeps getting abysmally poor.
A country with trillions of unretired security budgets and continuous unsolvable insecurities, banditry and insurgency.
A country where the leaders have access to medical care in Britain, France and America while the led make do with herbal medicine and concoctions.
A country where minority have their problems answered by public money while the majority are still having false hope in miracle agents.
Nigeria my father land.
Nigeria a country of diametric extremes.
Hashim Muhammad Suleiman, PhD
