Nigeria Is A Bad Idea -By J. Ezike

Nigeria, economically at least, has degenerated severely and irredeemably in my lifetime. Violent crime rates has soared to the zenith, terrorism is higher than anywhere else in the World, the states are flooded with poverty-stricken civilians, inflation is surging at an alarming proportion, foreign debts are pouring in surplus, the conspiracy of oil spills in the Niger Delta is cumulative in effect, refineries are defunct, health and commercial institutions are antiquated, federal and state industries are old and in desperate need of reform, education is more political here and of inferior standard, basic amenities are the prerogatives of the elites, road networks are incoherent and sagged with potholes, laws of the constitution are repressed and forced to reflect the immoral values of the Nigerian society, foreign investors are implacably shifting sites to Ghana, hunger is sky-rocketing, illiteracy is proliferating, corruption is booming, population growth is exploding, unemployment is swelling, mortality rate is suborbital.

University graduates, traditionally are compelled by the government-induced hardships to walk through the eye of the needle and find the seldom jobs that provides monthly pittance. The result is the haunting, age-old tragedy of “salary imbalance” between a poorly educated but advantageously placed Northern Nigerian Senator and a Southern Genius of Means.

All over Nigeria, there is a bitter deprivation and unbearable levels of hardships. This Mass Penury ensures nothing stands in between the helpless Nigerian and beggary. All of Nigeria is steeped in the mire of chaos, a congestion of a battered majority and the suffocating, airless bashing that emanates from struggling to survive in a very over-crowded hell with all the doors and windows slammed. Yet the Nigerian politician driving through the misbegotten civilian hub of the country is not at all likely to find the dire conditions of the people wretched and tragic than any other hovel in the world.

From a confessional standpoint, I am tempted now than before, to resonate with the convictions of my lecturer, a Ghanaian by name “Mr. Fred” at London School of Law and Business Management, when he rationalized the logic of politics. Mr. Fred had argued that there is a broad line between a leader and a politician. Considering the history of Africa’s pseudo-independence from the West and the tyrannical politicians that have sprung up from the five regions of the continent, to posit a purely jaundiced and biased view for this phenomenon of Africa’s and/or Nigeria’s backwardness is indeed a great denial of the tragic realities that bedevils the continent, politically.

Most of the social maladies in Nigeria have been induced by perpetually crooked politicians who pretend to be honest leaders. Thus, we have the “Looters Club” in Aso Rock, the Criminal Yard at the National Assembly and Government Houses. And the best one can say is that they are on a “pawn square” and that the few motivated by patriotic virtues and a sense of true leadership maintain their positions outside the “chessboard” with agonizing integrity.

It is unlikely that any sane mind acquainted with Nigeria seriously believes that there is a concentration of leadership products running the State of Affairs. Also, it is fair to admit that the Nigerian cult of politicians are chiefly responsible for the dysfunctional mindset of the severely victimized Nigerian civilians who struggle with the psychology of poverty and have stifled their abilities to think and to question the reality they have been conditioned to live in.

Studies have shown that the long impact of poverty on a people can lead to “small brains” – a robbing on their “intellectual quotient.” Isn’t unsurprising that Nigeria today is overcrowded with a massive population that can barely articulate, mentally unresponsive and are deeply ingrained on the same squalid foundation that reduces them to the value of a mere chewing stick?

Possibly, the most pounding effect of this political hostility on the mind is that it depreciates the life worth of the Nigerian civilian and brings him or her to a condescending angle far-flung from common dignity. It also assures that the Nigerian civilian is completely forgotten from good memory and confined to a misery that knows no rivalry.

In a land where, it is bragged, to be the Giant of Africa but cannot afford 24 hour-uninterrupted power supply, coherent road network across the length and breadth of the country, free health care, free education, food security, modern transport system, civilian security and protection, advanced drainage systems, public housing system, container railways, industrial and agricultural revolution, Biafrans of the Southern Protectorate can be excused for demanding an outright disintegration from what they deem as the Dummy of Africa!

Nigeria is really a bad idea. And the terrible thing about being a Nigerian lies in being domiciled in Nigeria and accorded a citizen of such tragedy.

I have lived in so many countries; I have been to Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, North America and Asia. I have resided in the poorest and richest cities in the world, and I can swear it by God that Nigeria is the most miserable place in the face of the earth.

Nigeria as a country supports only the morally-depraved and the lunatics of the world – those who are sufficiently evil and have acquired a mastery of all vices.

An appraised criminal of the National Assembly who flaunts about as a senator of the federal republic of Nigeria is entitled to monthly expenses of 13.5 million naira, just to sit in an air-conditioned auditorium and fan his egos and strap his Abgada on his proud shoulders and crown his coconut head with red-cap and strut with vainglorious pride through the civilian streets on siren convoys – whereas, a first class degree holder in engineering, who has the mind of an Einstein and endowed with the ingenuity of Innoson, is lumped into the group of the mentally castrated, jobless, and at its best is offered a pittance of 30,000 naira as monthly salary. How convenient is that?

This Nigerian political wickedness has been rivaled in recent years by the APC-led regime currently piloted by a facially-cloned agent “created” by the British government for the Sokoto Caliphate. And I dare say that the Nigerian politicians of both protectorates are complicit of this grand scheme.

We have seen in the news, the battle of savages, a war staged by politicians on Zamfara goldmines. The implication of this discovery is an unending bitter conflict that will ensure the continuous flow of human blood, usually civilians, to appease the Northern Politicians who are mired beyond the reins of avarice.

To cap it all, the Olympian hypocrisy of the Northern Politicians that deems the oil of Biafra as the property of Nigeria, but the gold of Zamfara, a property of the North and its Caliphates, is a powerful proof that the philosophy of “One Nigeria” is a fraud sustained by the British Government and promoted by the North and its Caliphates.

No sensible human being in Nigeria will aid his or her victimized position by reflecting with great stupidity the traits of the sheepish bloods. It is no news that Nigeria is a deeply demonic and disorganized defunct contraption. Devoted to the principle of self-determination, it is a legitimate call to demand via referendum, a renegotiation of this “British Company” and to return all the entrapped tribal constituents back to their original expressions…