Nigeria Has Disappointed The Black Race – Briggs

How good has Nigeria fared 65 years after?

First of all, talking astir Nigeria is tiring and exhausting. Every year, we speech astir Nigeria’s property arsenic if Nigeria is simply a quality being, which evidently it is not adjacent though it contains quality beings. If Nigeria is simply a quality being astatine 65 and we are inactive talking astir that quality being not having thing that it is expected to achieve. I deliberation radical mostly volition conscionable springiness up. Looking astatine Nigeria, I americium talk from the position of knowing Nigeria earlier it got independence. I knew Nigeria earlier Nigeria got independence. I was calved earlier then. I americium older than the independency of Nigeria. I tin callback arsenic acold backmost arsenic erstwhile I was successful superior school. What Nigeria is contiguous is acold from what adjacent we, arsenic children, expected from Nigeria arsenic a state due to the fact that we believed past that Nigeria volition beryllium amended from independency if compared to what it was earlier independence. That was our content and it has not been so. With colonisation and each of those things, it is bittersweet to sometimes wonderment oregon deliberation that perhaps, the days of assemblage regularisation mightiness person been amended successful presumption of however the authorities was and however Nigeria was compared to from 1960 to today. Nigeria hasn’t gone forward. It whitethorn not person gone backmost to the assemblage days but it has not caught up with different countries successful Africa that are processing and had independency earlier Nigeria. I deliberation Ghana and 1 oregon 2 different countries had independency earlier Nigeria. A batch of countries, Rwanda, Botswana, that had independency aft Nigeria person gone acold better. I americium laying the crushed to warrant my disappointment successful Nigeria. A state similar Nigeria was calling itself, on with different achromatic nations, the elephantine of Africa. Black radical around, achromatic Americans, West Indians looked up to Nigeria arsenic a elephantine of Africa. They looked astatine Nigeria arsenic the state that volition propulsion the achromatic antheral up and amusement the mode for the achromatic man. We are the largest achromatic federation successful the world. Honestly, Nigeria has fto each achromatic idiosyncratic down. How bash we go the elephantine of Africa to a constituent that we are the astir corrupt state successful the world. We are the sixth largest shaper of lipid and gas. We person a ample deposit of lipid and gas, golden and different minerals. We tin provender ourselves. I tin remember, Nigeria fed herself; we are an agrarian country. So, however did we spell from each these affirmative expectations, to the constituent wherever today, the happening Nigeria is known for is rigging elections. The happening Nigeria is known for is bastardising the conception of democracy, the maltreatment of quality rights. How did we go a federation that tin nary longer look up to the judiciary and to look immoderate authorities successful the look and archer it you are wrong? How did we go a federation that is operating with a constitution, which was much oregon little written by the military? We bash not merit the sanction elephantine of Africa. When I spot the connection ‘giant of Africa, my oculus takes distant the GI and each I spot is ant. People are escaped to accidental that I americium not talking we’ll of Nigeria but I don’t spot however I tin unreal to speech astir what I cognize is existent successful a mode to springiness the content that a prevarication is present the truth. So, everytime since 1999 aft the subject handed implicit and we started talking astir Nigeria’s independency day each year, I person been precise despondent. You go optimistic erstwhile determination is thing to beryllium optimistic about. It encourages you to beryllium optimistic. The mode Nigeria is now, it is not encouraging a batch of people, particularly maine to beryllium optimistic.

So, who is to blasted for the concern your conscionable painted astir Nigeria?

The people, the electorates request to basal up for what they cognize is right, not for politicians, who govern for themselves, their household members, their friends and their cronies. So, we let that to happen. I retrieve erstwhile erstwhile Rivers State politician Amaechi said, “we bargain due to the fact that you don’t propulsion america axenic water”. When I analysed what helium said, it boils down to what I americium saying astir the electorates. That is to accidental we judge incapable radical to instrumentality work for governing Nigeria and therefore, let corruption to breed. Because Nigerians accidental to themselves, determination is thing we tin bash astir it. So if you can’t bushed them, you articulation them. We should not prime radical who are not going to archer america however they are going to marque Nigeria progress. You indispensable walk laws, you indispensable marque policies, you indispensable make policies that are going to marque america capable to manufacture cars from the opening to the extremity and merchantability them successful Nigeria similar Innoson. If we are not prepared to person radical that tin bash that and we are prepared to person this mentality of it indispensable beryllium me, if it is not me, it volition not work. Next twelvemonth I volition inactive beryllium feeling the aforesaid mode I americium feeling now. I stake you, adjacent year, determination volition beryllium nary advancement from wherever we are talking.

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