NIGERIA: In Search Of A True LEADER Nigeria is a country God Almighty has blessed with abundant material resources: including crude oil. She is also endowed with human resources; including professionals in diaspora, who are making great contributions to the development of the countries of their abode. The bane of our problem is bad leadership; like in many other African countries. So far, God has not allowed natural disasters, like: earthquakes, tornadoes, and landslides, to ravage the country. We have been praying and searching for a true leader, to steer the ship of this country to the “promised land”: to salvage the country from: poverty, hunger, disease, and their attendant rising wave of crimes. The nation has been able to produce rulers and masters; both civilian and military who held sway, since our political independence from British Colonial Masters, in 1960 – about fifty-three years ago. From available reports, over five hundred billion dollars, have been siphoned from the country’s treasuries, since we started ruling ourselves. As a result of massive stealing, over seventy percent of the citizens are impoverished. Until recently, the country has been bedeviled, by mostly selfish and tribal rulers, who use ethnicity and religion, to divide and rule the helpless masses; while paying lip-service to nationhood. Most of our rulers are religious hypocrites. They occupy front rows in churches and mosques; and make donations here and there; and play politics with religion. As well, they acquire countless number of honourary awards and titles, from their sycophants and hangers-on, to boost their ego, whom they in turn pay back with stolen money. They love propaganda. These power hungry persons; carry out propaganda on the electronic and printed media, in attempt to redeem their battered image, with the help of their stooges. The more they oppress the people, and loot the treasury, the more they make noise all over the place, in effort to counter growing oppositions to their misrule. They are empty vessels, that make the greatest noise. Military rule is one of the worst things to happen to this country. Soldiers who imposed themselves on us, were the worst human right abusers. They ruled with impunity: arresting real and imagined opponents of their ruling junta, and clamping them into detention. The judiciary was highly restricted, following suspension of the Nigerian constitution, by military dictators. There were lots of political assassinations; mysterious killings of outspoken critics of military government. Sometimes, their deaths were blamed on armed bandits. Puppet military tribunals were set up to try suspected enemies, (sorry coup plotters). Before you know it, they had killed them in an underground shooting range. We also experienced mysterious plane crashes. One could hear of planes exploding in the mid-air; suggesting conspiracy somewhere. It was easy to setup probe panels , to ascertain the causes of the crashes. After that, nothing could be heard of them again. At times, passenger planes would be affected. At other times, military officers would suddenly loose their lives on missions loading...
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