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The Set-Up for Imprisoning Innocent People By Kano Nigeria Nigeria
is one of the countries of
the world where the number of hungry and undernourished people
particularly children has increased in recent years. Undisputable
is the fact that the country is endowed naturally with one resource or
the other but still beggar of aid from various international donor
agencies. Upon all the donations, aids and assistance receiving from
many years to date, the tragedy is that the indicators instead of
improving, the situation is rather deteriorating. In
some Countries for example, the citizens and the policy makers are very
conscious and patriotic of their own country. Their country first before
any other thing. But in Nigeria for example, the war against poverty is
perhaps clearing and locking up the poor on the street whenever a
visitor from outside Africa is visiting the country so that he will not
say there is poverty, not developing the wisdom to eradicating it,
forgetting that them the policy makers are seen also as destitute in the
eyes of the visitor as they make request frequently. Education, we don
come; Health, we don come; Agriculture, we don come. The
leaders or the ruling class in Many
writers says “the problem of developmental plans in One
of the major cause of these problems and the stagnation of the Economy
is the illiteracy of the majority citizens of the country. The Elites
are using this as an opportunity to be achieving what they want. They
are using what I will call among other things as “fragment
and rule to personal satisfaction”. They divide the Nigerians
Illiterates on the basis of Tribal, Religious and Ethnic differences for
easy acquisition and maintenance of power. In
the country for example, you hear an elite challenging government for
marginalizing the geopolitical region he belongs, saying we in the north
or we in the south “are deprived of having adequate number of sits in
the ministerial or ambassadorial” alike. Most of those people are only
using the clause “we” to mobilize the support of the people from
their area to support them to earn political power not as their
representatives but rather the representatives of their personal
interest. And the crazy shallow thinking lower class will comply. For
instance, when it comes to election in Analyzing
the Educational development, during colonial domination the segregation
was more justifiable because it was an uninvited rule which was
associated by the use of force. So even if the colonies were not been
thought more than arithmetic’s and English to become their cashiers
and clerks, should not be a surprise considering now a days that it is
we that are ruling ourselves and depriving ourselves the ultimate right
to Education. The
afraid of revolt is one of the reasons why the ruling class are
neglecting the Educational sector, because the higher the literacy rate
the more the ability for positive reasoning among the people and the
lower the tolerance of devilish activities of the leaders. Secondly,
they have the resources to sponsor their children abroad. The situation
has even reached that they are not using their alleged stolen wealth for
that, instead they are using the resources made available at created
places like PTDF to sponsor their own children because the principle of
equal opportunity is not there. Not
more than three months ago, I was watching an NTA live program with
Adamu Chiroma,(former CBN governor, former minister of Agric and former
minister of finance) he said “I can remember I graduated on Saturday
and got a job on Monday”. The
country has done many good things to them and they have been thanking
the country in return with many bad things. High
label of inequality in the country deprived majority of Nigerians from
been where they are supposed to be, attaining what they are supposed to
attain. A person may graduate and stay for six years with out a job,
another with only a month of his graduation will secure a job even
before attending the one year compulsory national youth service corps. To
enjoy what is your right in Fellow
Nigerians, if you agree with me that these are the realities of the
situation in the country, why don’t we unite and fight the enemies of
the country, why don’t we fight back the unjust undesirables among us,
instead of fighting our self. Let the procedure to choose our leaders be
base on history and the qualities in a candidate regardless of ethnic,
tribal or religious differences. You can agree with me that when they go
there, they unite and become friends. So why should we allow them to be
deceiving us and making us enemies of one another. Ali Bukar Ahmad (jnr), writes from Kano Nigeria |