A SHORT SATIRE OF THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY NIGERIA

Every society has its ugliness but the beauty of the Nigerian society is in its amazing and flawless leadership. A lot of people might argue about various rotten aspects of this great nation but one thing we don’t actually need in this country is good leadership because we already have the best of it. Our fathers in politics have been using the experiences gathered from their youth while they were leading the nation to move the nation on to better glories as they still lead the country either directly or through “god-fatherism”, old age they say is full of wisdom and much of it is being seen today. Their experiences have devalued the currency, brought us multiple recessions, fed the increasing growth of terrorism and with these made us the “wealth” capital of the world.

Political corruption as a case study already has an active field in our society and it is guaranteed to give any researcher thorough information into any existing sociopolitical problem.

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As a Nigerian citizen, I get the most motivation I need from the country’s undaunted anthem, as a child, I sang out the anthem with happiness and my hands firm on my chest, and now as an adult, the zeal to scream it out has elevated and I sing it out loud with happy tears on my face. Funnily, a few people might have forgotten part of the lyrics but let’s go through some beautiful lines and see how the country is excelling in the epileptic prophesy that was written over 40 years ago. It is being sang that “The labour of our heroes past, shall never be in vain”, Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe and other great leaders will be happy in their graves as they watch their labour actually in vain and shambles. A lot of our heroes took the inheritance of generations to come and kept them in black holes that have since vanished and will never be recovered. Some heroes made the wealth of the nation theirs and looted enough to make the country bleed into plentiful and gorgeous debts. These exploitative behaviour has driven poverty, underdevelopment, unemployment and suffering into our core and there seems to be no escape from this wonderland.

Sing with me “One nation bound in freedom, peace and unity”, I love my country, I really do, a country where you are free to dress with class and be seen as a criminal, a country where policemen arrests a young person just because they feel the young is having a more comfortable life than them or simply for having a bigger pocket, a country where tribes fight for their own territory and individual growth, a country bound in bondage, poverty and separation.

If it isn’t too late, let me welcome you to a country where the river flows with milk and honey but tastes like acid and ash, where lady justice has removed her blind fold and judge based on how high you can bribe her, where kidnapping and ritualism is one of the fastest growing careers. Not to leave out how young people make money through online scams and feel it is their generational right. Hey beautiful, still chilling with the big boys? Be careful make them no Bam your organs.

Corruption is sweet to the person digging the wells of plenty and bitter to ones suffering the consequences. Bitter sweet smell flows through the air of my great country, happily sad families living below the poverty margin and a bountiful land of plenty with overpriced foodstuff, land of plenty proving to be scarce.

People have died in this great nation and will never get justice, the Nigerian dream has been dead for years but in the glimpse of the darkness we have seen great leaders, youths and good Nigerians alike who are standing tall and fighting to ignite the light which has long been quenched, every now and then I see a vision of the glorious great nation which we want, where patriotic citizens are the real heroes whose labours should not be in vain, where serving is more important that looting and where youths are not scared of being victims of police brutality and likewise victims of murder, rape and ritual killings. But what do I know, I live in a nation where the leaders do not lead, where the preachers preach fear, where you have to defend yourself from your defenders, so tell me, is there a nation greater in beautiful things than this?

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