Flashback: Our Nigeria.

 I have never seen a people that hate the truth and relish deceiving themselves as Nigerians. A country in itself built on the tenets of colonial and autochthonous deceit, where peace is never meant to be a reality and socio-political and economic development has become privatized by a greedy clique called cabals who hijacked the mantle of leadership from the slave-masters in a negotiated and mimic political struggle culminating into the second phase of slavish impoverishment of the people by neo-colonialist, black slave-masters who have proved to be even worse than their predecessors, the colonialists.
   

 It is pertinent to mention that at the time Nigeria got her “independence” in 1960, the northern part of the country was not prepared and would even have preferred that the British continued to govern the nation rather than have themselves subject to the whims of the elitist south. To appease the north, the then southern leaders made some enticing concessions to the north to convince them into embarking on the wagon of self-determination and get the British off our shores. A united north later transformed those little concessions into a consolidated socio-political and economic prominence at the detriment of an egoistic south.
What is unfortunate is that even before our “independence” we had brandished traits of disunity and nepotism, in other words, long before Nigeria became a nation we had already demonstrated that we were not intact. Suffice me to say that a kingdom divided against itself, will never withstand the test of time. What the newly constituted nation needed to detonate the time bomb that formed its foundation was just any disparity, no matter how small, and in this duty imported religions; Christianity and Islam served as a ready enzyme for the quick detonation of that bomb. Corruption which has since become a culture in our country has also contributed to a very large extent in destroying the littlest sanity of that project called Nigeria, the many years of military rule has also contributed its destructive quota in stagnating our projection as a nation and ridding us of the right to democratic traditions, resulting in a widespread belief in violence and force as the best and quickest means of agitations in the absence of an effective rule of law and an incorruptible judiciary.
Coups and counter-coups planned and executed to maintain a certain sector, tribe or group in power for selfish motives coupled with the unresolved devastating effect of a bloody civil war also helped in further dividing our nation. In spite of our natural and human endowment as a nation we are still struggling to crawl fifty years later, because jobs are never given to efficient or capacitated persons but on the basis of tribes, contacts, religion etc, etc.  

 The gap between the few rich people and the unquantifiable poor Nigerians have reached its utmost point since the formation of this nation, Needless to say that we have by so doing created an uncontrollable monster which has given birth to idiosyncratic groups like the Boko Haram hiding under the guise of Islamic religion to perpetrate barbaric bomb attacks. Also prominent is a notorious terrorist group in the south-south created through the repeated Nigerian government and multi-national connivance at the full and irresponsible exploitation of the oil rich Niger-Delta. Not to talk of the spree of organized crimes, including kidnapping, armed robbery, advance fraud etc, etc. making their uncontrolled rounds in the country.
Unfortunately, there is no end in site for all these anomalies, because the condition and situation of yesteryears is still very prominent today and nobody is doing anything about it, rather we turn away our faces and at the most, impetuous, naïve and docile cowards hiding under the emblem of Christianity look onto the skies for a helping hand when the power to make a change and transform an unwholesome situation into a favourable one has been given onto them. We still permit the neo-colonialists, successors of the ill-intentional British Empire to continue to defend the interests of their masters, on payment, at the detriment of the general well-being of our people.
The same group that received the baton in the illegal race of leadership through a span of fifty years are still changing the baton at will, now with an advance deceit they call Democracy when it is an open secrete that we are still mandated by retired generals and their civilian cohort, all of whom constitute themselves into a secret society called CABALS. Those who are supposed to have been flushed away with the entirety of their parasitic families in a popular revolution so that our nation can begin to flourish as expected and deserved still afford themselves the effrontery to mislead and misguide our blessed nation behind and before the scene.
If indeed our nation is to progress, an authentic and unconditional generational change is necessary, real and patriotic Nigerians should be allowed to come to the fore, but before this a repetition of the South-North consultation prior to independence should be revisited to determine the continuity or otherwise of this project called Nigeria.