From every sleep that I'm privileged to wake up from, I've always being optimistic and look forward to seeing this distress to have disappeared.
Expectations every morning, hunger and thirst for miracles.
Quick desperation for intervention and millions of ways to see if there are any short cuts to achieve desired results of GOOD LIFE.
This is obviously not the Nigeria of my dream if you would ask me.
Anticipation for a better tomorrow has started before I was born and it's almost a mantra that I perceive would be sung by the forthcoming generation.
Policies made by government at all levels are loosing their masses-centered relevance and they are just being made anyways.
The stamp duty was recently implemented followed by a new tarrif on electricity and now hike in fuel price. All these however seem to be felt more by the average Nigerians. Yes, You and Me.
I want to believe the fuel price hike is a prank that would be cautioned any moment soon.
Our leaders are full of hypocrisy, they make various policies that are to be strictly adhered to but they do otherwise. They tell the citizens not to travel abroad for medical treatment meanwhile they take the air route when they feel symptoms of fever or even slight headache.
They advice Nigerians to patronize home-made or locally made goods when they go for imported products.
They can be compared to those described as ''Pharisees'' in the scriptures who put heavy burden on others but who won't even touch it with the tip of their finger.
The government make bestial policies day by day for Nigerians that make lives unbearable for them and they act like nothing is wrong even when the outcry is deafening.
They haven't even experienced what the power supply in Nigeria looks like, how annoyingly bad it could be, how the electricity is being interrupted in the middle of important things and how the consumers have to wait till forever. They do not understand the annoyance of getting monthly electricity bill that wasn't in any way utilized.
And how much more it would be difficult for Nigerians to even pay more for what was not supplied regularly not to talk of used.
It's not a surprise they do not know what it is like. Most of them have expensive generating sets that do not even go off a second.
The Value Added Tax on all products and services has been accepted relutantly by Nigerians with the platitudinous statement ''we have no choice.'' After the removal of Tax on monthly salaries, withdrawal at various ATM points comes with another charges coupled with the VAT charges that are deducted from whatever the money is bought with.
The government's regulation in the crude oil industry is causing alot of mayhem. Subsidy this, subsidy that, whereas the true story is as plain as crystals to those involved. The burdensome hike in fuel price as it is, has began to affect every other things most importantly the cost of food and transportation.
All these vicissitudes seem not to bother them in any way, they just want to take more even to their graves. They keep hiding under ''the economy is bad everywhere'' or ''Nigeria economy is even better than some other countries.'' Why then are they in power if there's no solution, is it to grieve us?
How do we cope at this time when there's an incessant increase in the basic amenities of a common man?
And to you reading this:
Is this how you would exacerbate the pain of Nigerians when you get to power too?
Would you serve well or steal well?
Would you be considerate or you wouldn't even care?
Will you be a leader a poor man will genuinely pray for?
God bless Nigeria!
Virtual hugs from me to you 🤗🤗🤗
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