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What is going on in Nigeria as #EndSARS protest engulf Nigeria is actually beyond #EndPoliceBrutality or #EndSARS tags. Nigerians are actually tired and are bottled up with anger because of maladministration and bad governance. Hope is lost and the future looks blank. Nigerians were very happy to elect President Buhari in 2015 with power of Social Media that painted PDP black and the messiah-like promises of APC. After clinching power, nothing seems to change rather some believed it is getting worse. These questions got us speechless from Nigerians:
Are you happy that twenty-one
senators are currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and
deputy governors in Nigeria?
Are you happy that a bag of rice
is now N35-40k?
Are you happy that all the security agencies are majorly headed by
one section of Nigeria?
Are you happy that no sector of Nigeria economy is working or can you tell me one?
Are you happy with levels of corruption in Nigeria?
Are you happy with incessant killings, banditry and kidnapping in
Nigeria?
Are you happy Nigerians make it quickly outside Nigeria while
hardworking Nigerians languish in abject poverty in Nigeria?
Are you happy with the way they are treating Nigerians outside the
country because of the way our politicians treat us back home?
Are you happy with the way few opportunistic politicians are
holding the Nigerians to ransom with bogus salaries and allowances more than any
other politicians in the world?
Are you happy with the states of our roads despite abundance of
bitumen deposits and quality stones everywhere in Nigeria?
Are you happy with the way this government is needlessly borrowing
for everything despite the trillions being embezzled from NPA NNPC FRSC NCS CBN
NIS.
Why does the poverty capital of the world have the highest paid politicians?
Are you happy that drivers
license cost between 25k-40k?
Are you happy that N1500 cannot
buy you 10 Litres of Fuel and N10k can no longer fill your Car fuel tank?
Are you not angry that every home in Nigeria depends on personal generating set for electricity?
Are you happy that small sachet
tomato paste is now N100?
Are you happy, that the average Nigerian
home now spend between N10k-N25k monthly on epileptic power supply?
Are you not worried that our
minimum wage cannot buy a bag of rice or beans or any staple food?
Do you ever wonder how poor
people survive in this nation?
Are you not mad at the insane
number of extortion points called checkpoints all over our roads?
Are you not mad that Police,
FRSC, Civil Defence, VIO, Customs, LASTMA, OCHA BRIGADE, Govt Sponsored Touts
and Hooligans etc are all on our roads and markets harassing and
extorting innocent people in broad day light?
Are you not bitter that entrepreneurs
spend all their profit and even capital on diesel and are frustrated out of
business by different business permits, multiple taxes and insane levies?
Are you not sad that you're forced to bribe your way through life if you need anything done in this nation?
Is your car comfortable on our pot
holes ridden death traps called roads?
Are you ok with the fact that 90% of Nigerians are stuck with poorly equipped hospitals while our politicians travel around the globe for the best medical attention?
Have you ever ask yourself how over 70% of
Nigerians survive on less than a dollar daily?
Do you ever wonder why over 60%
of our graduates are jobless?
Do you ever wonder why most employed Nigerians are underemployed?
Are you not sad that honest
hardworking people die broke in this nation while the shady ones thrive?
The anger in Nigerians have brought about #EndBadLeadership, #EndLooterRegime #EndNigeria etc.
They are now demanding for:
1.
END SARS
2.
SACK SECURITY CHIEFS
3.
IMPROVE SECURITY
4.
FULL DEREGULATION OF OIL AND GAS SECTOR
TO ALLOW MORE INVESTMENTS FOR JOB CREATION
5.
IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF PIB
6.
FULL DEREGULATION OF POWER SECTOR TO
ALLOW INVESTMENT CAPITAL FLOW TO GENERATE, TRANSMIT AND DISTRIBUTE MORE POWER
AND CREATE JOBS
7.
GOVT SHOULD HANDS OFF PETROLEUM PRICING TO
ENABLE FREE MARKET DETERMINATION OF PRICING
8.
CLOSE OUR NORTHERN BORDERS TO STOP
FREE ENTRY OF FULANI HERDSMEN AND BANDITS
9.
INCLUSIVE GOVERNMENT FOR ALL TRIBES
AND REGIONS OF NIGERIA WITH 50% YOUTHS IN CHARGE OF GOVERNANCE
10.
ALLOCATE MORE FUNDS TO EDUCATION SECTOR
TO PROVIDE BETTER TEACHING TOOLS AND TO PAY BETTER SALARIES TO END ASUU STRIKES
11. CHANGE OUR ACADEMIC CURRICULUM TO
REFLECT MODERN DAY REALITIES
12.
ALL POLITICIANS SHOULD BE PLACED ON
MINIMUM WAGE TO ATTRACT GENUINE PUBLIC SERVICE
13.
MIGRATE TO 100% ELECTORAL REFORMS WITH
ELECTRONIC VOTING TIED TO OUR BVN AND GSM
14.
RETURN NIGERIA TO REGIONAL GOVERNANCE
STRUCTURE OR RESTRUCTURE THE COUNTRY AND EMBRACE TRUE FEDERALISM. STATES
AUTONOMY MUST BE PARAMOUNT.
15.
DISBAND THE BI-CAMERAL LEGISLATURE AND
ADOPT UNI-CAMERAL
16.
IMMEDIATELY REFORM NIGERIA POLICE FORCE
AND LET EVERY STATE OR REGION CREATE ITS OWN POLICE SERVICE
17.
NO MORE BUDGET FOR RUNNING PRIVATE
AFFAIRS OF ELECTED AND APPOINTED PUBLIC SERVANTS
18.
ENTHRONE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AS
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION FOR PUBLIC OFFICE HOLDERS AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT
FROM PRESIDENT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND WARD CHAIRPERSONS
19.
STRIP EX-GOVERNORS AND ALL ELECTED AND
APPOINTED PUBLIC SERVANTS OF ALL BENEFITS AFTER OFFICE.
20.
INCREASE SALARIES OF OUR DOCTORS,
NURSES, TEACHERS, POLICE, MILITARY OFFICERS, AND CIVIL SERVANTS
21.
GOVERNMENT SHOULD HANDS OFF OWNERSHIP
AND MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESSES AT ALL LEVELS.
22. NAME AND SHAME LOOTERS AND MAKE CRIMINAL
OFFENDERS, AND LOOTERS FACE TRIAL IN THEIR HOME STATES AND VILLAGES TO SHAME
THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES
23. STOP FOREIGN MEDICAL TRIPS FOR PUBLIC SERVANTS. LET THEM BE TREATED HERE IN NIGERIA. WHEN LAST DID YOU HEAR AMERICAN PRESIDENT OR BRITISH PRIME MINISTER VISIT NIGERIA FOR MEDICAL TOURISM?
Are they right or wrong? Who will bail Nigeria out of these problems? Tell us your opinion.
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