HAVE WE EVER BEEN DEVOID OF PROBLEMS?

Just like a faithful wife, who is ever willing to cling onto her husband so no ‘external force’ would come in contact, problems have failed to find its way out of the flesh of Nigeria. Beautiful yet underneath the beauty lies a lot of problems. Just like a pretty damsel who has no good behaviour, her outside glorious and precious, alluringly catching the eyes of the opposite, yet getting to know what lies underneath, a pile of emptiness coming as an offshoot of no moral values. In that same light, I see our Nigeria.
Being a product of the late 90s, and after series of knowledge accumulation, I find out that our major problem then which was dictatorship affected us so badly right from the onset of Nigeria. Apart from Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar who had a care-free attitude in spending & through this caused a drop in Nigeria’s foreign reserve, other military leaders before him played a part in the destruction of our foundation. And there can never be a beautiful building with a bad foundation
When power was handed over to the civilian in 1999 & we entered a new century by 2000 we thought it was all over though somewhat unsure of what that century had for us. And then the insurgency we we are threatened with now was born. Starting off as islamist riots, it has developed from a sperm cell, to an embryo, then a full blown fetus. Not forgetting there was an unrest in the middle-belt which claimed lives too. Also there was that problem of fake drugs. There was an large influx of the drugs during the Ibrahim B Babangida’s regime. But to our rescue a certain, Dora ‘Nigeria’ Akunyili who assumed office on April 12, 2001 as the Director-General of NAFDAC after quite an unimaginable, incogitable demonstration of honesty. She fought even her Anambra brothers who were at the forefront of this business and almost got killed after several attempts made by even her kinsmen. It was said that on one occasion, the bullet, with a whoosh ran across her ears and when straight to the driver. Her time wasn’t then yet she must have thought. Indeed a woman who requires the name ‘Nigeria’ given to her as her middle name because she has been a faithful servant. She combated the influx of fake drugs in the country and beat it hands down!
Then the problem of dealing with corruption heightened until a certain group, which the US labeled a terrorist group, The Boko Haram was now born. It wasn’t killed as a fetus and that fetus managed to become a full blooded human being. A confused set of individuals that have their conscience sold to the ‘ambassadors of poverty’: those politicians that have reduced this country to a piece of crap. First, they were aimless, Then, they said they wanted a state of their own, Later, it was to kill all Christians & make this nation an Islamic state – What rubbish! Who doesn’t know all these are politically driven? Even my kid sister can attest to that. Few months ago, everyone & everybody everywhere were all #BringBackOurGirls. But I ask, aren’t these girls used as a tool of some kind of political game?
Whilst dealing with them, on july 20 a Liberian, Patrick Sawyer carried the deadly Ebola Virus into Nigeria. “Madness” just as our President said, and I agree because the act of imposing pandemonium intentionally on Nigerians and leaving the Legosians in a state of deurmekaar, I consider as not only madness but wickedness. Despite the madness exhibited by this individual, what about the madness exhibited by them on top of the individuals? They knew about this deadly virus that had eaten much individuals in Guniea, Liberia, & Sierra-Leone and yet NO precaution was taken against citizens coming in from other countries or maybe did they think ECOWAS workers couldn’t get the virus too? Laxity, Slackness, Loose, Free, Porous what we have turn into. Problems that can be avoided left to mature. Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together. We need to grow! And no nation grows with problems lingering within. Someone has to deal with this problems now. If not the present someone, then a better future someone. Mr. President indeed is trying, he’s in charge of a nation not a classroom. He’s doing his best, but but do we Nigerians think so? Democracy implies putting the people before yourself.
We’ve been graduating from one problem to another, just like a child graduating into different phases of his education. Problems are inevitable but the deadly ones can be avoided. We have never been devoid of problems but really can we? “YES! WE CAN”, Obama would always say. The key remains Good Governance & Effective Administration. The problems may not be reduced to 0% but at least to the barest minimum. All we need is simply another Dora ‘Nigeria’ Akunyili.