PART-THREE: THE PROBLEMS WITH NIGERIANS

GINA WEEKEND COLUMN,
BY:
HABIBU GENTE
DATE:  Saturday, 22  April, 2017.

A continuation of last week column;
3.     NONCHALANT ALTITUDE: One of the major problems with Nigerians both the leaders and the followers is the nonchalant attitude in dealing with core issues that affect our living in the society. For the leaders they show their nonchalant attitude in the way and manner they handle our problems politically, socially and economically in the sense that the leaders wouldn't proffer solutions to the immediate problems affecting their people. All they do is to half-execute political projects just to lure the electorates to win their votes on the election day. And the worst part of it, is they will never offer the masses a sustainable development,but rather give them insatiable things that will not last for years. The portrait of Nigeria politicians and the electorates, is like a fowl and her master. The master will not throw corns for his fowl that will sustained her for hours, in order to avoid abandonment that he may likely suffer from the fowl.  But the fowl will always forget her master if she can feed herself from either her friends homes or in an independent search. Just as there is hope for that fowl that one day she will free herself despite the psychological enslavement, there is hope for everyday Nigerians that one day they needed not be oppressed with hunger or threatened by starvation and design destitution if they made a brave steps to choose those who will rule and govern their affairs in the country and not to imposed a leader to them by the  merciless elites . This empty threats but political banter of the politicians depicted in the way they execute their projects like; awarding hajj or Jerusalem visit to some people while they lack good or no  water, decent Healthcare in their respective villages,  spending outrageous money in scholarship while primary and secondary school education is rotting academically and wailing for lack of quality teachers.  Distributing motor bikes and cars to low or no income earners without upgrading their wages or providing them with a source of income. As for the nonchalant attitude of the followers is the business of 'i don't care if it is not from my side'  the people are of the attitude of 'i don't care'  if anything misfortune  befell a  particular region of the country, they show lack of interest 'if such tragedy is not from their own side. The nonchalant attitude of Nigerians is what led to most of the tragic experience that occurred in the country, like When issue of kidnapping evolved from the southern part of the country no one take it seriously from the sisters regions everyone think is the 'problem of the South and not ours' until those kidnappers begun abduction of prominent leaders or their families that is when it becomes 'Nigeria problem'.  Same with the menace of bokoharam its started like a joke from some angry sect of Muslims in northern part of the country who are not satisfied with the way their other Muslims brothers treat them. And people from other regions treat the situation as the 'problem of the muslim north', not until those malicious people lunched  their attack without discrimination or exception to any religion faith. Begun killing innocent people, abducting children, bombing of religious centers, made an attempt to some politicians 'lives, there it become' Nigeria problem '.
The next will be the solution /suggestions to all these and other little problems of Nigerians. There i will make recommendations for the core issues And political philosophy that will be good and adoptable for Nigerians.
    To be continued .