Death to 2020

I find Netflix the very popular movie American streaming Service boring. I am very sure that we are not plenty that feel that way. For me the movies are a time waster and I go in search of documentaries that will make sense to me.

So I stumbled on this perfect documentary titled – Death to 202o. t is a comedic documentary with Samuel Jackson, Hugh Grant and other influential actors. It takes the events of 2020 from the wahala with Prince Harry to Covid down to all the stupidity that has followed the Trump administration into view. While poking fun at the events the message of the year is not lost on the viewer.

This is exactly how I feel about this year. It is a horrible year. The worse in recent history at all levels. At the personal level, I lost my wife Mena Joseph Edgar and almost every family in Nigeria was touched by death. Covid took its toll on the elites and is still ravaging.
Although Nigeria failed to record its position at the top of the league of Covid devastated countries, its toll on the economy and social life was just as well devastating.

It threw us into another recession, triggering social instability with the Endsars Protests/Riots and totally unravelled the ineptitude of Government as it lost grip. Insecurity became the order of the day. Lives and property lost and life in the country becoming cheap and almost worthless.

Apart from the maybe $200m transaction that saw an international Private Equity Firm invest in Pay stack I really do not see anything to be happy about in this year.

Personally, much as I do not believe that the crossover Dec 31st will automatically bring an end to the carnage, I cannot wait for this horrible year to pass so that we can face whatever 2021 will bring.

The signs are ominous as the NCDC has said that the pandemic will be tougher the first few weeks of the new year for obvious reasons. We will still be in recession and we will still be governed by the same she brained Leaders. So the optimism for the new year is totally misplaced but can we give up hope?

We cannot afford to give up hope as we approach the new year with trepidation. The new year must usher in the rise of the follower. We must seize our fate in our own hands and ensure a robust and passionate push against the viscitudes of life in Nigeria.

Leadership is forlorn. Not having the capacity nor capability to deliver us from the madness that is our recurrent challenges. The Follower must as a matter of urgency lead a change in the narrative come 2021 and begin to arrowhead a true renaissance.

There in my estimation lies the only hope this generation of Nigerians have because any other thing would be waiting for the mythical Godot.