In my long-divided heart, there is a need to obey the rules of the world and play their games but I am restricted because of the fact that the games are not the type that goes with a credit.
The society opposes such games as well as the government but how am i supposed to survive in this corrupt-filled country?
Where people have to wait on long-queues before they can get anything (pensioners)
Where people forge certificates to get jobs
Where square pegs are placed in round holes due to connection
Where politicians win election through rigging
Where contractors are paid to do a project but end up siphoning the money
Where public school children are not as privileged as their counterparts in private schools who have amenities and class ratio at their disposal
Where graduates are denied employment and some of them go into the games of the world
Where mothers can not reap the fruit of their labour
Where the media carries out the adage that says"He who pays the piper dictates the tune"
Where friends turn against you or betray you all in the name of money
Where youths with ideas get discouraged as a result of the downturn experienced in the country
Where the rich keeps getting rich and the poor goes beyond the abyss
Where the poor is discouraged and gives up on life
Where rich men cannot support or help the needy
Where the poor man is denied a say in the society
Where democracy is just a term in politics
Where we always look up to the whites to imitate their lifestyle
Where the whites dump their unnecessary goods and we rush at them like rats who have seen the "heavenly cheese"
Where we cannot boast of our own local production (Aba made)
Where the country is dependent on oil, shutting doors to other mineral resources that will be useful to the economy if harnessed
Where we disrespect elders as a form of being like the whites
Where we change our normal black skin to suit that of the whites (and end up getting ugly)
Where decisions that are made are not the type that will benefit generations to come
Where all serious issues are swept under the carpet until they re-appear (boko-haram, fuel subsidy)
Where your money determines where you live (rich-V/I or Abuja, poor- mushin/ajegunle)
Where your money determine what you eat (rich-french fries, poor-garri)
Where you live in abject darkness even after paying the electricity bill
Where 99.9% percent of the population are impatient on roads thereby causing long line of traffic jam
Where the president spends 13 million on only cutleries
Where a President has to sneak into his own country
Where a President's wife can not make a simple sentence without committing a blunder
Where little children learn to hawk with their mothers
Where music now becomes everyone's career including actors/actresses
Where nudity is a common part of our home movies
Where culture and tourism is a thing of the past as people cannot identify with their place of origin
Where people do not respect the national symbols such as I.D Card, Currency, National Anthem, etc.
Where the government makes a promise and fails to fulfill it
Where teachers and lecturers go on strike without considering the effect on future leaders
Where leaders train their children abroad with public funds
Where the minimum wage can not even take care of an average Nigerian talk less of a family
Where people marry for money and not for love
Where celebrities and public figures boast of a happy marriage which most times ends up in a divorce
Where most of the societal vices are carried out by public figures
Where some vices are generally accepted by the society (pre-marital sex, which also leads to loss of virginity and then they say "Virginity is the lack of opportunity" and its no news if a girl of 12 gets pregnant. Divorce is now generally accepted in contrast to what is practiced culturally. Cyber fraud has now become jobs to a number of people. Social workers as they call them are no longer ashamed to talk about their profession)
Where people have the boldness to say "I sold my soul to the devil"
Where moral values are only important in story-telling other than reality.
Even though all these are happening, I still owe allegiance to the mother who gave me a roof over my head and that is Nigeria. I believe that there are people as optimistic as I am. Let us all try to do good and other people will follow suit. WE CAN DO IT. ONE LOVE. ONE NIGERIA
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