Dance of Death;Nigeria.

The Chinese have a very wise proverb: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me again, shame on me. How many times have Nigerian politicians fooled us? Are we not stupid?

Listen to Nigeria leaders and you will frequently hear- "this great country of ours". Nigeria is not a great country. It is one of the most disorderly nations. Nigeria is chaos and one of the most corrupt nations.  It is one of the most unpleasant place on earth that it is only fools, who have no self interest that can pick Nigeria for a holiday.

If Nigerian politicians should set out to see things in themselves, what do they actually see? Their monthly salary and their allowances will actually make them blind. They receive in millions and then begin to talk about minimum wage of other fools who voted them in, thereby maximizing their wahala.

Chinua Achebe rightly stated that Nigerian are what they are only because their leaders are not what they should be. Anybody who say that Nigeria is not corrupt is either a fool or has not been in Nigeria. So these Nigerian leaders, our so call politicians who claim that Nigeria is not corrupt are either fools or are not living in Nigeria which many of them do.

Nigerians are corrupt today because the system under which they live makes corruption easy and profitable (Chinua Achebe). If Nigeria leaders should make corruption difficult, Nigerians will cease to that.

Now, everybody has become beggar both the politicians and police men. Police now in Nigeria has become legalized beggars. If politicians are not beggars, then why do perform devilish act in other to achieve political office? Why do they seek political office. Why do they want to rule? Why do they go to the extent of changing their father's name to the name of the president? Is it not to beg for favor?

Now that election is coming, can they spare us the threat of violence in the next election? They have told us that they want our votes so that they can serve us, if we get killed while we are getting the votes, who then will they serve? 

There should be no Nigeria because the leaders do not care for the people they are leading. Nigeria politicians do not follow the rule of law. The president does whatever he want. Is that democracy? The United States of America are more divided than Nigeria but they follow the rule of law. In the Northern Nigeria, if you are a Christian,  you cannot contest for any political office, yet we are one Nigeria. Yet we have freedom of religion. Politicians should tell themselves the truth and stop fooling themselves.

Every year, they map out huge amount of money for farming. Where does the money go? The money goes back to the politicians pocket  and the farmers would not have access to it.

Nigeria is not food sufficient. There is hungry in Nigeria and leaders are talking about exportation. You first satisfy your citizen before exporting. Let us live by reason and not by emotions, not by pleasure and selfishness.

If an Hausa man does anything, the leaders are comfortable but if it is an Igbo, what do you think would happen?  

In Nigeria, we have 98,377,000 hectares of land according to FAO statistical database 2003. 2.9% of it is meant for permanent crop production. Arable crop production is 30.9%,  but for Pasture, (grassing by the Fulani) is 42.4%. The other 23.8% is not meant for Agriculture purposes.

This is to prove that Nigeria leaders care more not for the lives of their citizens but for cows. Who is fooling who?

By Onuh Justus Izuchukwu