Yesterday when I went to reactivate my kids account, the bank asked me to produce my drivers license or my national identigy card. Surprisingly I produced the two documents viz the FRSC-authorised drivers license and my national id card. Curiously enough, the two documents were temporary documents. My license expired jn July 2014 and still stands unrenewed. But FRSC understands, because it is thrir document. I did not forge it. I still retain it because it is a document issued by a Nigerian institution (and most Nigerian institutions dont work). The general laziness and indolence that has entwined Nigeria like a snake remains abiding. The laziness has permeated the entire fabric of our nation. FRSC and VIO people see me everyday and say nothing because they know it is a systemic failure. The same goes for the national identity card issue. I have carried my temporary identity card for so long a time that the temporariness appears to morph into some permanence of sorts. Nigeria is gradually becoming a temporary nation. Virtually everything about this nation foreshadows a national mentality of impermanence. You are just forced into thinking that someday a monkey might go to the market and not return. The whipping up of ethno-religious sentiments in the North-East Zone and the micronationalism of the tribes populating the entire Southern Zone portends a great danger for my country and her citizens. Truth be told, in the midst of all these crises one cannot but conclude that the recrudescence of violence in Nigeria long after the nation hosted a fratricidal and internecine warfare is gravely ominous. As soon as the lady in the bank saw my temporary national identity card and my temporary drivers license, she quietly quipped, Nigeria is fast becoming a temporary country! I left the bank and took that remark to heart.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:05:06 +0000
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