We are it again. It has always amazed me how we love to major in the inconsequential while we leave the truly major and important things undone.
In a time like the one we face in our nation today, our legislators are debating female dressing. In the Nigeria of today?! Unbelievable! Who are these people for God’s sake?
What happened to the Niger Delta issue? The state of anarchy armed robbers have unleashed on us? The state of our healthcare and educational infrastructure? The state of our nation’s physical infrastructure? Electricity, Water? What happened to the fight against corruption? The one we are not winning by any stretch of the imagination?
There is so much work to be done if Nigeria is to become the world’s 20th most vibrant economy whenever. So much work to be done in so little time that one has to wonder at what type of human reality resides in the senate chambers discussing something as trivial as female dressing.
These are people who have work? I am of the opinion that most of them are possessed by legion-7 evil spirits multiplied by a 100. I have said , and thought, it so often, that the bane of Nigeria today is the baby boomer generation born in the late sixties and seventies.
Spoilt by a post-colonial government seeking complete self determination and progress, many of them schooled outside our country at no cost to themselves. Take a look at the home universities they schooled in, OAU, UNN, ABU, UI…even my own small ATBU. They ate food then that would give any dinner occasion now bragging rights. Look at the faded magnificence of those campuses and you can begin to understand what it must have been like back then. Then, look at what they left us. Compare that to the complete nonsense they build today.
In a time like the one we face in our nation today, our legislators are debating female dressing. In the Nigeria of today?! Unbelievable! Who are these people for God’s sake?
What happened to the Niger Delta issue? The state of anarchy armed robbers have unleashed on us? The state of our healthcare and educational infrastructure? The state of our nation’s physical infrastructure? Electricity, Water? What happened to the fight against corruption? The one we are not winning by any stretch of the imagination?
There is so much work to be done if Nigeria is to become the world’s 20th most vibrant economy whenever. So much work to be done in so little time that one has to wonder at what type of human reality resides in the senate chambers discussing something as trivial as female dressing.
These are people who have work? I am of the opinion that most of them are possessed by legion-7 evil spirits multiplied by a 100. I have said , and thought, it so often, that the bane of Nigeria today is the baby boomer generation born in the late sixties and seventies.
Spoilt by a post-colonial government seeking complete self determination and progress, many of them schooled outside our country at no cost to themselves. Take a look at the home universities they schooled in, OAU, UNN, ABU, UI…even my own small ATBU. They ate food then that would give any dinner occasion now bragging rights. Look at the faded magnificence of those campuses and you can begin to understand what it must have been like back then. Then, look at what they left us. Compare that to the complete nonsense they build today.
Welcomed back with open arms to the civil service, they were housed and maintained-neat houses and lawns, car loans and even light bulbs in drawers to replace those that got blown. These are the same who allowed the military in and helped corrupt them. These are now the men and women with so much self esteem issues that molehills become mountains in their shadows.
Our founding fathers, gravely imperfect as they were, had some noble dreams. These ones have absolutely NOTHING.
Look at what such a privileged generation turned Nigeria into. And instead of helping to fix the mess created, they discuss dressing. DRESSING! Its absolutely preposterous. Such a waste of our time and our petrodollars discussing and deliberating what we all know: everyone has the right to wear what they like and if you don’t like it, SHUT YOUR EYES AND LOOK AWAY. What is so mission critical about dressing?
I tell you what is critical: its armed robbers having a field day and policemen and women abandoned to violence by government. It’s the state of our road network, our power infrastructure, our education, our lack of housing, our poor corruption record (sorry, I stand corrected; our abysmal record on corruption).
Our founding fathers, gravely imperfect as they were, had some noble dreams. These ones have absolutely NOTHING.
Look at what such a privileged generation turned Nigeria into. And instead of helping to fix the mess created, they discuss dressing. DRESSING! Its absolutely preposterous. Such a waste of our time and our petrodollars discussing and deliberating what we all know: everyone has the right to wear what they like and if you don’t like it, SHUT YOUR EYES AND LOOK AWAY. What is so mission critical about dressing?
I tell you what is critical: its armed robbers having a field day and policemen and women abandoned to violence by government. It’s the state of our road network, our power infrastructure, our education, our lack of housing, our poor corruption record (sorry, I stand corrected; our abysmal record on corruption).
This baby boomer generation is an accursed lot. How so many of them got into power is truely mind boggling.
