Bottom-line up
front, if things don’t change quickly in Nigeria, your future is at risk if not
completely doomed. I was alarmed to hear
the Nigeria minister of finance, few
days ago, along with other government
officials make a justification as to why the Nigeria masses must start paying
taxes including the beggars on the street.
That is what the giant of Africa have come to! What a big shame – This is not to say that
taxation is something not done, but it is inappropriate presently; but this is
another topic! The Nigeria government
for years now have always put the kart ahead of the horse on every issue; lazy
or inept enough to continue failing to do their jobs while getting paid.
I have
listened to Nigeria citizens lament of increasing NEPA bills on masses who
hardly get electric power in their homes from NEPA for the bills already paid;
and while not getting the product they paid for, crazy government are raising
the prices on them. Now the newest
lunacy is their plan to tax even the beggars on the street. On a side note, how will they even know who
is who to tax as they have completely failed in implementing a system that
accounts for every citizen just like in civilized societies.
Further,
they forget they have not created jobs and aren’t consistently paying salaries
to those who have the handful of jobs in the country – how do you tax people
who have no employment and those that you have not paid for the work they put
in? If these doesn’t scare you, you are
not awake. You are unconscious though
not physically dead. Every person of
minimum mental ability in Nigeria should see by now that there is no light in
the tunnel – Nigeria is not going forward, it is not even stagnant, it is
rather retrogressing; why because we have visionless, directionless, thoughtless
and wicked people in leadership.
These set of
people in leadership have bankrupted Nigeria by stealing collective wealth to
settle their pockets without regard to the duty their offices are called
for. They borrow to pay themselves and
finally, when there is no other way to raise money for themselves, they must
now tax you the masses to continue to assuage their bottomless vices. Youths, let me break it to you, if you
continue to enable this leaders by fighting against change and antagonizing the
Biafra agitators, who are the only people putting on action to bring a change
for a more secured future, there will never be peace in that country, those
clueless leaders will never make the effort to build a country that will
sustain its people’s needs.
Just think
about it, for 57 years, these group of people have continued to recycle
themselves in government and amassing wealth that they can’t spend for 10 life
times at the expense of YOU the masses.
It is outrageous and irresponsible for the youths to remain loyal to
these evil cabal. I am not advocating
violence. I am advocating that you stand
up and protest and demand to take your destiny into your own hands alongside
the Biafra peaceful protesters. Biafrans
are already doing what is necessary to affect change and that is why you must
support the cause. And by the way, the
Nigeria military should protect the people and be for the people instead of
killing the people at the government bidding.
I have been
observing what’s going on among Nigeria youths.
Majority of them do not understand what is at stake regarding a way
forward for there to be progress in that part of the world. These youths are resolute and fight really
dirty against each other in defending politicians, religion and tribe, ignorant
to the fact that the politicians they defend have never had the best interest
of them youths at heart – It has been so bad that I myself have been aggravated
and drawn into such situations in a bid to awaken people to their blind spots. They are hell bent on proving that they are
more eloquent on promoting their politician, tribe and religion while defending
one Nigeria (which begs the question, if you hate one another so much, why do
you want to remain as one Nigeria) and fail to see the following:
-The
problems of tribal differences will continue to retard any meaningful progress
in the country: This will never change unless Nigeria is broken up. The masses tend to focus on defending their
tribe men who have done wrong instead of protecting the interest of the whole
Nigerians. Every tribe does this and I
do not see it changing until the country is divided up by tribe and then people
can focus on the real issues and no longer defend evil for the sake of tribe. And this very reason is one that shows that
things will not work out if separation is not considered. There won’t be peace and progress in a house
where they fight and hate on each other perpetually? Think about that!
-Consider
the fact that dividing into smaller regions will bring out the best in each
region. It will foster easier
accountability of leadership by the people.
It will enable people of every region to appreciate and better utilize
every God given resource to sustain themselves and fashion more creativity
among the people. I remember that
Nigeria main stay used to be agriculture and since the advent of oil,
agriculture was abandoned for easier money.
There are many countries that the totality of their economic sustenance
comes from agriculture.
-Breaking up
Nigeria into smaller or it’s original parts will encourage healthy competition
within each region and eliminate the toxic competition among the tribes within
Nigeria. Lack of toxicity facilitates
creativity among people and within units.
And one of the best things is that dividing Nigeria does not have to
change the economic relationship among each region. As I mentioned in a previous writing, the
regions will remain neighbors and can or should continue to do business with
each other. Let’s all make it a peaceful
undertaking. A divorce does not have to
be bitter.
It will only
be bitter if someone makes it so. There
is no problem that cannot be solved by peaceful dialogue.
I have more
to say but will stop here until next time!
Thanks for
indulging me on this!
Ij Onuigbo
Ex US Army
Captain
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