WHO SHALL SAVE US?
The state of things in the nation today brings one close to tears if one were to think about it critically. The situation is so bad that if one does not operate on positive thinking one could easily conclude that Nigeria is done for! The way and manner with which our supposed leaders play on our intelligence and trample on our rights is astonishing and their cruelty is second to none. What could be crueler than leaders who are less concerned about the welfare of their citizenry? If that is not the height of cruelty then we wonder what is.
In a country of over 140million people with a meager section of that gigantic population tossing and turning the rest of us wherever they will is a situation that confounds us. Almost nothing in this ‘beloved country is working properly. Education and power are in states of disrepute while health is in comatose. Recently, the health workers in Nigeria embarked on strike claiming that they will not return to work until our government answers them. There are lots sick people who need constant care and attention which though the private health sector may be able to provide but at a very costly rate both financially and otherwise (many of these private hospitals are death traps). Many sick people cannot even afford the bills of these private hospitals and as a result of the insensitivity of our government they languish in horrific pains till they probably succumb to death. 
Day in day out the dreaded terrorist group who carted away over 200 hundred girls for over 4 months now; murder and maim Nigerians in the north as if violence is running out fashion. They do so with impunity that we wonder if these are humans or if they are demons unleashed on the Nigerian territory to torment us for grievous sins like the children of Israel were tormented in the biblical age. These miscreants come out and boast of their loathsome deeds because they know that in this country anything goes. They know that our leaders care nothing but to remain in power regardless of what the cost t o the rest of the populace. They act brazenly because they know they will get away with it.
There are youths who are the larger portion of our population roaming the streets every day without any form employment. These youths leave school every year in their thousands having endured all the hardship associated with going to school yet they are advised at graduation to engage themselves in one form of vocational training or the other. How preposterous?! After spending an average of sixteen years trying to get an education and then you are told to go back and learn tailoring or hair-making! Isn’t that outlandish and bizarre? Yes! That’s what obtains in our nation. We only hope we don’t experience the Youth Bulge syndrome in this nation at the speed we are going. In spite of the aforementioned, our leaders are still bent on remaining in and returning to power.
Just as some people were mourning in Yobe over the malicious murder of over 40 school kids our dear president was declaring his ambition to run for second term. The declaration was so important that it couldn’t wait and we wonder what new things the president wants to do for Nigeria apart from perpetuation of corruption and insecurity. The opposition party is no different. In fact, we do not have an opposition party in Nigeria. For us at Fatsssa press we believe every other party is an extension of PDP. The so called APC, is only reactionary, the party cry foul at every turn over almost nothing. The aim of APC, LP, Accord and others is not to effect any lasting change but to manipulate Nigerians into thinking they are fighting our battles while in actual fact they are after their own selfish interests of gaining power at all cost.
Nobody cares f or that little girl Bornu, or for that little boy in Yobe, no leader cares for the welfare of that old woman in Beere, no governor is bothered about that unemployed graduate, no senator or representative is concerned about the lack of good roads back at her/his constituency, no president care about our health, security and general welfare. Who then shall save us?
