The yuletide season is upon us already! For Christians it is a period of hope for mankind, with the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, though this period was not really its birth day, however his purpose of coming was to bring Joy and Hope to a lost generation, so it overshadow the debate of time .
Since the insertion of Christmas the period has serve as a time of rest, love expression and charity, with the traditional Christmas tree lined with gifts for loved ones that is expected to be opened on the 26th day of December, known as boxing day. Apparently it’s no longer news that all around the world this year, most especially back home here in Nigeria, there will be many Christmas trees without gifts, thanks to the austerity measures around the globe.
The issue is not the austerity itself, it’s the process that brought us here, the deliberate neglect and wickedness of some power individuals running the economy of nations, not to follow the rules; they kept borrowing in the name of the common wealth, bleeding the economy, the forces of demand and supply were manipulated, they turned the lives of generation into a gambling board, tossing coin with our destiny. Now that the chips are down; it’s funny, that the masses are been blamed for what they did not start in the first place, the elite and leadership keeps telling us to get used to having less, while they themselves cannot adjust to that life (just go check the recurring expenditure for next of Nigeria and most State Governors then you will know what am talking about).
For the major part of 2011, the debate across America, Euro and most western Nations, are the austerity measures, to help solve the critical economic situation, while here back at home we were dealing with ‘Boko Haram’, not until the last quarter when the issue of subsidy removal came up, my take on that was and is still, yes we all know the benefit of removing subsidy if there was really any in the first place; we have being programmed not to believe our leader’s again; because experience has shown us to doubt them, the hand writing are on the wall, to show that unless God intervene the removal of oil subsidy will not solve the current economic crisis in Nigeria, they claim it will attract foreign investors, let’s be serious with ourselves, how many of those companies are really foreign, the same men that runs things back at home, goes to the back waters of the western world to gather a bunch of loses bring them in as foreign investors; like the saying goes he who pays the piper detects the turn. We don’t really ‘need foreign investor’ to grow; overheard a gist between two honest elderly men about a foreigner that came on a visit with a son of a current serving Senator, rumor had it that, he saw 27 unused cars in the house of the Senator, and the son could not give the visitor any reason for that wastefulness, and the same man has not even a commercial farm, the visitor could only hmm! ‘Your father is a wicked man’ the same Senator was in-charge of toll-gate operations before it went down, they are planning to return it now that he returned back to the senate after many years. My concern here it’s not the ‘poli-preneur’ going on here; what if the money for those 27 cars are used to empower those thugs he used during the last elections, in his ward. Just asking ni ooooooo?
Waoh, I have totally left my discuss, yes a Christmas tree without gifts, we do all pray for a better community, but I want to charge all citizens to brass up for difficult days ahead. However a wind of positive change its blowing, young people are taking charge; do not sit down, get up and save yourself, if you expect politician to get better, they we never, but the citizens can get better, having clear priority lets join hands together to tackle some of the most important issues of our time, youth restiveness (resulting in cases of rapes, murder & youth crimes).
My thoughts are not just coordinated at this point, because I worked around my city of residence, with beautiful decoration for the season, but as I looked at the faces of the people I saw hopelessness, parents imagining how for the first time, there will be a Christmas tree without a gift; well people as we approach the new year and awaits the effect of subsidy removal please yield to the advice of the ‘big boys’ get used to spending less and for the ‘big boys’ please create opportunity in your constituency, because if you do not, it’s like when someone poor takes over and mistreat the poor, it’s like a heavy rain destroying the crops. Adieu 2011, Welcome 2012 a test run year for Nigeria economy.
