It is beginning to dawn on Nigerians that our leaders are bound to
lead us nowhere. The aforementioned promised land seems to far to reach.
All magnanimous "Manifestos" which were used to woe unsuspecting
Nigerians during the electioneering process and all we had been promised
by Buhari and the APC led administration have failed to "Manifest", but
so far what we have seen is a dwindling economy, low power generation,
proposed subsidy removal, high level poverty and naira devaluation.
The Federal Government has so far in the first nine month spent N3.42tn out of the total N4.493tn spending approved in the 2015 budget. These figures are contained in the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (2016-2018) sent by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly. Although Naira is relatively stable, it is weak and soft when you compare it to other major currencies like dollar and euro. Presently Nigeria is having one of the lowest debts to GDP ratio in the world. This is coming few months after JP Morgan an American multinational banking and financial services holding company kicked Nigeria out of its ranking. The country had in the last 18 months experienced price and commodity shocks owing to decline in oil prices as well as crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism.
Corruption has eaten deep into us and has become a name with which we are been addressed worldwide. The former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki's saga has clouded our media space as names of highly placed individuals who had participated in sharing the over N32billion Naira loot are been listed on daily basis.
Insecurity has become a part of us with its maiden name as "Boko Haram, Biafra and Shiite". Just as the memory of over 160 kidnapped girls have been flushed down the drains. Nigerians have so quickly forgotten the epidemic and catastrophical influence this kidnap had and still has on the lives of the affected parents. How painful it is when you realise your daughter is out there, somewhere neither dead nor alive. How painful it is when your daughter who was in her hostel sleeping was whisked away in the dead of the night into the unknown. How miserable it is when you are no longer safe in your fatherland because some unidentified persons find it appealing to ransack your home, burn down your place of worship and kill your beloved ones with explosives. Individuals are treated like refugees in their own home. It is painful to realise that in some part of the country people now live in fear, while does in other parts of the country live free without sympathy or concern for our fellow brothers and sisters who have sleepless nights due to these insurgents. Day by day all you hear of is extra-judicious killings by our security personnel. Yet our leaders sit armed crossed and watch.
What has happened to our groundnut pyramids in the north? The textile industries in the south? The agricultural produce in the east? Our mother land which used to be a multi-exporting nation now only depends on petroleum, whose market value is gradually collapsing. Our currency seems to be dwindling day after day, this same currency we all dreamt would someday compete with the U.S Dollar. Will that day ever come to reality if we continue like this??
Yet before 2015 elections we were promised a "messiah" which would bring a wind of "Chanji". We all waited, clamored with joy and pondered in anticipation, praying and hoping the divine change comes. Little did we know that it was a replica of the what it used to be. Politician and looters were only recycled.
The Federal Government has so far in the first nine month spent N3.42tn out of the total N4.493tn spending approved in the 2015 budget. These figures are contained in the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (2016-2018) sent by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly. Although Naira is relatively stable, it is weak and soft when you compare it to other major currencies like dollar and euro. Presently Nigeria is having one of the lowest debts to GDP ratio in the world. This is coming few months after JP Morgan an American multinational banking and financial services holding company kicked Nigeria out of its ranking. The country had in the last 18 months experienced price and commodity shocks owing to decline in oil prices as well as crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism.
Corruption has eaten deep into us and has become a name with which we are been addressed worldwide. The former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki's saga has clouded our media space as names of highly placed individuals who had participated in sharing the over N32billion Naira loot are been listed on daily basis.
Insecurity has become a part of us with its maiden name as "Boko Haram, Biafra and Shiite". Just as the memory of over 160 kidnapped girls have been flushed down the drains. Nigerians have so quickly forgotten the epidemic and catastrophical influence this kidnap had and still has on the lives of the affected parents. How painful it is when you realise your daughter is out there, somewhere neither dead nor alive. How painful it is when your daughter who was in her hostel sleeping was whisked away in the dead of the night into the unknown. How miserable it is when you are no longer safe in your fatherland because some unidentified persons find it appealing to ransack your home, burn down your place of worship and kill your beloved ones with explosives. Individuals are treated like refugees in their own home. It is painful to realise that in some part of the country people now live in fear, while does in other parts of the country live free without sympathy or concern for our fellow brothers and sisters who have sleepless nights due to these insurgents. Day by day all you hear of is extra-judicious killings by our security personnel. Yet our leaders sit armed crossed and watch.
What has happened to our groundnut pyramids in the north? The textile industries in the south? The agricultural produce in the east? Our mother land which used to be a multi-exporting nation now only depends on petroleum, whose market value is gradually collapsing. Our currency seems to be dwindling day after day, this same currency we all dreamt would someday compete with the U.S Dollar. Will that day ever come to reality if we continue like this??
Yet before 2015 elections we were promised a "messiah" which would bring a wind of "Chanji". We all waited, clamored with joy and pondered in anticipation, praying and hoping the divine change comes. Little did we know that it was a replica of the what it used to be. Politician and looters were only recycled.
Written By: Divinelove Udorji
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