UNDERSTANDING FOLLY

UNDERSTANDING FOLLY

Just imagine a father who operates a massive farmland growing all types of cash and food crops.  Imagine he works ever so hard and harvests his crops on a regular for onward sale to buyers everywhere.  

Imagine this heroic father sells all his yams, vegetables, cocoa and corn and makes a lot of money which his girlfriends collect and squander.  Imagine he spends the remnant which ends up in his pocket to regularly purchase "yamarita" and salad with plenty flavors of ice cream including chocolate from an expensive fast food joint for his 7 children to eat. 

What a great and caring father some people will say.  Those children will end up with dental caries and morbid obesity;  perhaps dying before their father. 

That is the sorry state of Nigeria some are immune to recognizing because they are directly or indirectly benefiting from the girlfriends looting the farmer.  

How can any sane human explain that a nation which produces crude oil does not save some of the gold to refine for local consumption for over 16 years now?  They will say the military caused this but we have had 16 unbroken years of democracy now and nothing has changed.  The Gowon administration had more than 3 years in turmoil at the beginning but still managed remarkable progress thereafter.  If Gowon was commissioning diesel train engines in 74/75 why on earth should a 21st century president who thinks he has a genuine phd be grinning ear to ear that he provided diesel engines 40 years after?  

No electricity for days to weeks; now no fuel to run generators in homes,  schools,  hospitals etc. Must we sleep breathing in carbon monoxide intoxicated air?  Must we endure untold clean water shortages and noise pollution? Must we buy petrol for 1kobo more than the stipulated pump rate anywhere in the land? 

What is most pathetic is the morbid silence of the accidental president who was busy firing and appointing the last few weeks like Christmas came early in Lagos. Now a cowboy has been so generous to set the ball rolling by releasing 13 million litres of fuel from captivity.  In what country are things like this done? 

I heard today from a colleague that Jonathan had proceeded on his terminal leave days ago hence the rudderless state of the union.  Please bear with him;  his reward is warming up. 3 to go and it feels like forever. 

God bless the federal Republic of Nigeria.