He was right

 “What have you been doing with yourself,” I ask myself. I believe that that there's something that defines me that's more than having enough to eat and look good and I believe you feel that way at times too. Life is more than that; to live for those two is a bad way to live; to live in complacency is even worse, knowing that things are going wrong and looking the other way because you feel powerless.

Is there really a time when we are powerless? Is there a time when we are completely left without a choice?

In Nigeria today, people are hungry! People are frustrated! People can do virtually do anything just to survive! The rate of armed robbery and vandalism of oil pipelines have skyrocketed. These things are barely news. You know them; I know them. We are here in this state because of the poor decisions of a few, of those in our political class.

How can an individual own an oil well and handle deals with a country, deals that are supposed to be done country-country? How can one communication company handle both voice and data at the same time? You know about Oyo state, how one man single handedly made Alao-akala the governor of the state. You know how EFCC came to arrest him and the whole state threw a party. You know how he was returned before the end of the day and the gloom continued. You know how one man determines the political climate of a state and everyone watches. You know it in Abia State and T.A Orji. We did the much we could and then the one-man's will prevailed over a state.

And you remember when it was reported that the Nigerian budget was missing. A friend of mine who works in National assembly told of how the senators prepare the budget, which is a huge compilation of papers, and this document could just disappear into thin air. They drink(very expensive bottles of wine, after all they are senators) and curse themselves all evening into early hours of the morning, and so the bugdet reviews and prepares itself and decides to disappear all by itself, while the pimps with the girls wait for the senators to refresh them for working so hard. (But you already know these things and the more I remind you, the angrier and complacent you would become.) And then we sit back and read the news and discuss politics and that's about it.

I sit down with a lot of smart Nigerian youth, they are so politically enlightened and they have one thing in common: Their belief that Nigeria is doomed. And I get the connection; the more you analyze our politics, the crazier it gets you. One of my friends told me a story. He said, “In 1998, I told one of my friends who is a die-hard believer in the change of Nigeria when he was traveling outside Nigeria that if he comes in 20 years time, Nigeria will still be like this.” The friend came back this year, 18 years after. He was right. He even did us one better: Nigeria has gotten worse. So, we fold our hands waiting for the worse to happen, maybe one day God will kill all Nigerians.

Libya? Egypt? French revolution?

Are we this powerless?

By no means am I suggesting a revolution but if all these good heads come together, I'm definitely sure we can come up with a solution. But as for our present political class, you and I know that they have absolutely nothing to give. When you have lost your mind, can your head still work?

For now however, let Niger-delta avengers keep vandalizing. Let Biafra keep agitating. Let people keep dying of hunger. Let armed robberies keep increasing. Let dollar keep rising. These are the only things our fathers have been able and would be able to give us. Young people decide!

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