Independence and the repercussions of Colonization -By Ali Tijjani Hassan

As usual, Nigeria, has been celebrating its Independence anniversary, since 1st of October, 1960 to date.
It’s indeed an indelible day that every patriotic citizen of Nigeria, has to be happy with and coincidentally it’s a mirror on the wall through which we can see the real and naked image of saddened reality of our country.
We are living with no access to good roads, no clean water, no standard power supply, no qualitative education, and many poverty related diseases in terms of health provision.

It’s in the colonial master’s policy to sow a seed of problems in soil of every country that they reign, by which they could take advantage of those problems to enjoy the indirect imperialism or neocolonialism.
British rulers while departing, had implemented the aforementioned policy in Nigeria. Those problems’ seed are “Underdevelopment” and “Civilization”.
Underdevelopment is not an absolute out-of-development rather it’s a phenomenon provided to shackle the moving legs of African continent.
It’s by Underdevelopment policy African can’t even enjoy the sweetness of their ripe fruits, after working hard and assiduously.

Today, the results of Underdevelopment tormenting the African continent are Insecurity, Bad Leadership, Foreign currency manipulation as well as exportation and importation unindustrialised and industrialised materials respectively. No country that could move forward when it lack industrialisation to process and synthesized their resources, today Nigeria as an agrarian country had no access to modern farming tools. we are using unscientific and undeveloped equipment that are already outdated in developed countries like China, Japan, and Brazil. In addition to that we can’t processes our locally produced agricultural resources due to the inadequacy of manufacturing process.

In terms of Civilization we are deceived, by which we despised our culture, our religions, and social values.
Before the arrival of colonial masters in to Nigeria, it was a revered literature statue with unique ancestral values over the world. Our mode of dressing, socialization, religions, leadership are quite impressive. Sadly they spoiled and derailed all these hard earned legacy in the name western civilization.
We adopt the illicit culture of western world such as adultery, sodomy, alcoholism, disrespecting of elders. Before colonization elderly Nigerian are regarded and respected due to their wisdom, nowadays no one cares the age seniority. We are almost westernized!

Many people are saying that we are politically and socially independent but not economically, I opined that we are not independent at all, since that the system of government and the constitution we are practicing it’s not completely ours.
We are just independent by name!

May Nigeria Succeed!
Happy Independence!

Ali Tijjani Hassan, writes from Potiskum, and could be reach via Alitijjanihassan@yahoo.com