The Dog Of The King

The dog of the king is the king of dogs!.If President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,his governors and their geometric battery of aides agree,then why are Nigerians,children of such an affluent country so plagued by this pauperising species of poverty?. If you drive by almost any refuse disposal site now,you are sure to find people,not mad one's,attracted there like ants to sugar,scavenging the waste in those places,converting the discarded plastics and scrap to cash.Yet Nigeria is fifty three today. If you drop by any one of Nigeria's public universities now,the gates are shut....the staff have become career strikers,PHCN too or what is left of it is also on strike;the import of this?,no power,meaning the average Nigerian can't even watch today's independence day celebrations on Tv. At 53,Nigeria has lost NITEL,lost Nigeria Airways,struggling not to loose Nigerian Railway Cooperation,lost Delta Steel Company,lost Ajaokuta Steel Company,lost PHCN,lost the confidence of Nigerians,lost the trust of foreigners etc etc. Beside the moribund NITEL premises on Reclamation street,Sapele,there's a rash of small businesses;a car wash,a mechanic workshop,a private school,a barbing saloon,a church,and a couple of others more.All of the aforementioned businesses are thriving in a structure that belongs to NIPOST,a fully completed structure that would have been useful today as a post office.My bet is that people who patronise the businesses in that completed but abandoned ultra modern NIPOST building don't even know that place was originally built as a post office. At fifty three,quite sadly,the majority of Nigerians are disappointed,dismayed and disoriented by goings on in a country which is held in a vice-grip by corruption,tribalism and inefficiency.The only thing Nigerians still posess now is hope,but even that fizzles away if it doesn't transform into reality in good time.So help us God!.End.