Awesomness Esuabana|17 July 2019
Vladimir Lenin, the radical version of Carl Marx and one who helped fulfill Carl Marx's prediction said that a revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation such as hunger, heavy external debt, unemployment, economic repression or general discontent with the status quo. But Nigeria has proven that wrong because with all the revolutionary situations, one wonders why Nigeria is yet to undergo a revolution.
What the average Nigerian needs are simple. Nigerians are thirsty in the middle of the oceans of abundance and bountiful opportunities. Our political class have misallocated, mismanaged, and squandered our national resources at every opportunity.
Instead of becoming tools in the hands of inept politicians who are liable to fan embers of ethnic, religious and regional violence, Nigerians across the spectrum should realize that we have abject poverty in common, we have unemployment in common, we have concerns for safety and security in common which defies our differences based on ethnicity, religion and state.
All Nigerians in our daily lives confront a dead economy, absence of public transportation. Nigerians continue to bear the burden of abandoned, decadent, neglected public infrastructure. Nigerians have understaffed, ill-equipped and decrepit hospital and healthcare system in common, while public officials and politicians travel for medical treatments overseas. Over 190 million Nigerians contend with our neglected education sector, while politicians send their children to Europe and America to be educated with public wealth stolen from Nigerians. We should not allow our poor selves to be manipulated for the benefits of the political class.
The political class is identical nationwide, they have neglected the poor and what ought to be the Nigerian middleclass. In fact, well respected social influencer John Gaul Lebo said and I quote “one of the greatest challenge facing Nigeria today is the lack of a middle class, our democracy and economic development model has intentionally failed to develop a formidable middle class society”.
A revolution is said to have the reactionary out going class and a revolutionary incoming class to whom the future belongs to which of course is prevalent. But those in power will never let a change to happen. Change is a threat to their position.
Power in the Nigerian context is never given. It is taken and since it is taken, they are not to give it up easily. They and their hirelings hold the levers of power. They sit at the crossroads of power and privilege where decisions are made. Any law or reform that threatens their privilege is scuttled and resected with absolute disdain before it can see the light of day.
Today, with the recent killings and and kidnappings both by budding young people who should be the major resources of the country and those that are ethnic inclined, I am made to think that the word security is as silent as the 'p' in psychology. I am completely bereft of ideas as to why this country has grown from bad to worse in a space of one month.
Nigerians are known for one thing “HOPE” so I ask, is there hope for this country? Is there no need for a more radical process to the change we all desire?
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