If you want your news to sell in Nigeria nowadays, speak about someone wearing something nice or that the person has been gagged and disgraced on the basis of allegations. This is the sorry state the country has been reduced to as a result of the well publicized anti corruption war of the country.
People like me thought the war was going to be one that will strengthen the efficiency of the systems towards the delivery of services to the people but this one appears very differently as it has completely left the MDAs completely untouched while allowing them enough time and space to develop more strategies at shielding themselves from the tactics of the EFCC.
Instead of the war to provide a better and improved people, it has reduced the people into poor minds who should not wear or think of anything nice at all, I then wonder what the aims and objectives of the anti corruption war is after all. People hate to see the progress of their brethren anymore, the moment you look good, you are corrupt. Who is advising mr. President?
On the policy areas and intention to diversify, instead of us to see development of technology and governments direct investments in these areas, what we are seen is government telling everybody to go back to the farm including engineers like me, entertainers, doctors etc who have never had any interest in farming ab initio.
This has further drifted people’s brains back to that poverty mentality where someone feels there is doom everywhere. The government people have succeeded in making most of the country people always pronounce doom rather than succor.
While the masses really mean their mention of the doom they are seeing all around, the government people are simply saying it as a form of strategy to manage the expected underperformance that is coming up. In the back end of this, the leaders are still having or even more enjoyment and camaraderie than it used to happen before.
The question then is WHERE IS THE DOOM?
Hashim Suleiman
oneheartnaija@yahoo.com
