Nigeria as the Domain of the Demented

Desirous of foreign loan to invigorate the ailing Nigerian economy, a Nigerian President set off from the sprawling, multiple mansion presidential lodge in Aso Rock, Abuja to London for a meeting with his British counterpart. Driven in a 36-car motorcade of stretch limousines and other luxurious cars to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), he boarded one of the ten presidential jets and zoomed off to London.

 

At Heathrow Airport, two stretch limousines, some SUVs and six dispatch riders are at his service including a retinue of staff from the diplomatic mission who virtually “drop to their knees to catch every drop of his sneeze”. At No 10 Downing Street, Mr. President is ushered into the modestly furnished office of his host, the Prime Minister (PM) of Great Britain. The PM lives in an equally modestly furnished apartment in the same building on a street that is open 24/7 to everyday traffic for everyday people, a rather striking contrast with the maximum security exclusivity of Aso Rock, far away from the reach of everyday Nigerians.
Nigerian legislators, ab initio, abused their legislative privileges by creating for themselves spurious allowances that put them in an exclusive socioeconomic class, which has no parallel amongst public officers, globally. For instance,… It is the demented that voted for an obviously ailing octogenarian, who shamelessly claims to be septuagenarian to preside over the affairs of the most populous nation in negrodom.

 

In another setting, one of the wives of a Governor is captured on video sharing one million Naira each to her aides numbering up to twenty while the state government is owing worker’s salaries and pensioners’ entitlement for months. Invariably, the aides made up of police and other operatives are being “motivated” to be effective and efficient in their duty of protecting the lives and property of the Governor and his family thereby exacerbating social distance.
From the bleeders of our economy who masquerade as leaders through the rats that are called technocrats and bureaucrats, the randy predator professorial illiterates that encourage cheating in schools and the electoral process, to the…

Down the societal strata, to celebrate his 50th birthday, a Nigerian attorney took out various advertisements in seventeen glossy color pages of major national newspapers. At the modest cost of about five hundred thousand Naira per page, that unnecessary display of affluence gulped more than eight million Naira. Further down the socioeconomic ladder, an unemployed Nigerian sells land to buy a car for personal use. In other words, he sells an asset to purchase a liability. He borrows humongous amount to provide “befitting burial” for a parent that starved to death; he is suffused in the wasteful cultures of a society which priorities sit on their heads. This has produced the paradox of Nigeria being the home to the richest man in Africa vis-a-vis having the ignominious moniker of poverty capital of the world.

 

During the last quarter of 2022, Bishop David Oyedepo was quoted as saying that “the 2023 election will show how many insane people there are in Nigeria”. It is the demented that voted for an obviously ailing octogenarian, who shamelessly claims to be septuagenarian to preside over the affairs of the most populous nation in negrodom. From INEC’s results and based on Oyedepo’s hypothesis, Nigeria has eight million, seven hundred and ninety-four thousand, seven hundred and twenty-six enfranchised citizens who, due to their state of mind, voted for an excessively greedy man whose background and education remain a national mystery instead of one who has a proven record of character, credibility, capacity and competence.

 

From the bleeders of our economy who masquerade as leaders through the rats that are called technocrats and bureaucrats, the randy predator professorial illiterates that encourage cheating in schools and the electoral process, to the prosperity-preaching parasitic and predator priests and millions of touts in every inch of our public space, Nigeria is, undoubtedly, the domain of the demented. If this trend persists and citizens do not rise up and demand and insist on probity and accountability from authority figures and public officers, the country is on the fast track to becoming a doomed domain of the demented.

 

Prof. O. Jason Osai

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2 thoughts on “Nigeria as the Domain of the Demented

  1. I wrote and published this article in TELL of March 31, 2023. How come it’s credited to Louis Fadaka?

    1. GBETU House Style: Where credit is not given at the beginning of an article, you will always find at the end of the article. And where there is no credit at all, we are always ready to give credit once author verifies.

      Regards Prof.

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