"Dead
on Arrival: The Carnage and Deadness of Our Conscience - The Dead as
Victim & Weapon of Corruption" - as written by SMB Sesan Johnson
Wole forgetting that he is in Nigeria left ikorodu to attend a business meeting at VGC an hour to the time. He's to manoeuvre his way from Agbowa sub-hub. Realising the exigencies, he took an okada in order to get to the park in time only for him to be knocked down when the bike man was diving to beat the severe potholes on the un-tarred road. With a bang, the road was flooded with blood and skinned skins of humans and the air was filled with lamentation from passerby and horrific chants from chaotic hawkers by the road sides. A cab driver with early resistance agreed to take the accident victims to nearby hospital. He was cacophonously advised to speed up before the victims give up the ghost. However, bad road architecture couldn't make him deliver as promised. This was compounded by the little hiccups his cab had on the way. The car broke down but he managed to quickly apply the 'first aid' he could offer. After all, he's been the one repairing the cab, since, he couldn't afford to pay the 'mechanics' again. On getting to the hospital, the nurses and the doctors chanted 'dead on arrival'.
The above scenario typifies what Nigerians face everyday. The system is rotten with infrastructural decadence and policy imbecility. Things that were not working while I was young over 30 years are deeply entering into comatose. With billions of dollars spent by governments, the Nigerian system is not working. Name any sector that is not affected by this infraction on systemic development in Nigeria.
Not only is our system becoming dead; the deadening system is a product of dead conscience. Leaders of all shades are not activating the right side of their conscience to better our system. Do you know how the system ruptures many great ideas and policies?
Now, an ex-governor used billions of naira to bury the dead. Is that a constitutional assignment? What are we doing to better the lots of the sick so that they won't become dead? What are we doing to improve the health of the masses as they are already listed on the death list? The health status of Nigeria is killing Nigerians in instalments. Many sick people are working corpses. Many are just cheating death by the whisker.
It's becoming a continuous gory site to see individuals with chronic diseases that need urgent surgery to seek public and government interventions via the media. This is a pointer to the deadness the governance in the Nigeria.
Just as we have had cases of monkey and snake swallowing money, are we saying the dead too don dey swallow cash? Whereas, in recent time, the dead were appointed as members of boards. Not not forgetting the perennial cases of 'Ghost Workers' both at state and federal levels.
Whereas, Prof Osinbajo said this week that the issue of kidnapping is an exaggerated case. With this, I fear to conclude that political leadership is dead in Nigeria. The Super Falcons were refused their allowee. Same with the Super Eagles. Whereas, we are expecting the Nations Cup trophy. Abe, things are dead on arrival in Nigeria.
Wole forgetting that he is in Nigeria left ikorodu to attend a business meeting at VGC an hour to the time. He's to manoeuvre his way from Agbowa sub-hub. Realising the exigencies, he took an okada in order to get to the park in time only for him to be knocked down when the bike man was diving to beat the severe potholes on the un-tarred road. With a bang, the road was flooded with blood and skinned skins of humans and the air was filled with lamentation from passerby and horrific chants from chaotic hawkers by the road sides. A cab driver with early resistance agreed to take the accident victims to nearby hospital. He was cacophonously advised to speed up before the victims give up the ghost. However, bad road architecture couldn't make him deliver as promised. This was compounded by the little hiccups his cab had on the way. The car broke down but he managed to quickly apply the 'first aid' he could offer. After all, he's been the one repairing the cab, since, he couldn't afford to pay the 'mechanics' again. On getting to the hospital, the nurses and the doctors chanted 'dead on arrival'.
The above scenario typifies what Nigerians face everyday. The system is rotten with infrastructural decadence and policy imbecility. Things that were not working while I was young over 30 years are deeply entering into comatose. With billions of dollars spent by governments, the Nigerian system is not working. Name any sector that is not affected by this infraction on systemic development in Nigeria.
Not only is our system becoming dead; the deadening system is a product of dead conscience. Leaders of all shades are not activating the right side of their conscience to better our system. Do you know how the system ruptures many great ideas and policies?
Now, an ex-governor used billions of naira to bury the dead. Is that a constitutional assignment? What are we doing to better the lots of the sick so that they won't become dead? What are we doing to improve the health of the masses as they are already listed on the death list? The health status of Nigeria is killing Nigerians in instalments. Many sick people are working corpses. Many are just cheating death by the whisker.
It's becoming a continuous gory site to see individuals with chronic diseases that need urgent surgery to seek public and government interventions via the media. This is a pointer to the deadness the governance in the Nigeria.
Just as we have had cases of monkey and snake swallowing money, are we saying the dead too don dey swallow cash? Whereas, in recent time, the dead were appointed as members of boards. Not not forgetting the perennial cases of 'Ghost Workers' both at state and federal levels.
Whereas, Prof Osinbajo said this week that the issue of kidnapping is an exaggerated case. With this, I fear to conclude that political leadership is dead in Nigeria. The Super Falcons were refused their allowee. Same with the Super Eagles. Whereas, we are expecting the Nations Cup trophy. Abe, things are dead on arrival in Nigeria.
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