Imagine a typical Nigerian home, your own childhood home setting. Any memories yet? Good.

THE SCENE

The Father

He (THE MAN IN POWER) is a ‘very nice man’. He sends you through the three tiers of education – Primary, Secondary and University. Now that you’ve graduated, you are ready to rule your world; to put all that you have planned into action and show the world the stuff you are made of, leveraging on your mother’s personality. What happens? He now opens a can of conditions (THE CONSTITUTION) to you. These conditions are nonnegotiable.

What is in this constitution of his – to be the sole receiver of your monthly pay-check; not just yours alone but also of your siblings and generations to come (YOUR RESOURCES). This money would be paid directly to his account giving him the power to appropriate or rather “use” the money the way he deems best. So every month, you toil and he sits to spoil.

Hour after hour, day after day, month after month and year after year, you are working hard for a Baboon who lives off your energy. Ask Joe Jackson, he more experienced with this situation, he can explain this better. Soon afterward, he is overthrown by another man who your mother (NIGERIA) has found her delight in. Hmmm… Who is this mother and what is she made of?

The mother

Pointing at her direction… that is her, the porous lover whose vein flows with life. Very fertile– full of birth and have been weaning kids since 1960. She is very patient and has outlived her husbands in the house. She longs to have a true man rule over her that is why she still searching. Her aim is to have a man who would not exploit her and her kids. Her pain is that men who have come and gone would not reverse the conditions (CONSTITUTION) because of the wealth they have seen and can amass (GREED). This wealth is so much that even when they leave the house, they leave a couple of helps and gardeners so that they would still have some form of control which translates into stakes over it.  

The Situation

Over the years, Nigeria has passed through different leadership. One thing these leaders have in common is GREED. Greed for money and more money… it never stops. Whose money you ask? Nigeria’s money, our money. Money that would have been used to improve the infrastructures on ground and develop more is being stolen on a daily basis from the government purse into offshore personal accounts. Who is there to question them? You? Please, please… I don’t wanna laugh.