Nigeria: A nation where ‘slaves’ are oppressing their ‘masters’

It is unworkable and impracticable to spill blood, disfigure and mutilate for wanting to selflessly-serve the people as we have been experiencing in our clime. It does not make sense for anyone to snatch ballot-boxes, burn INEC properties and kill fellow human beings—for wanting to become a public-slave. Take for instance, the President of Nigeria, Governors, Senators, Ministers… are supposed to be public-slaves, but it is the other way round in our clime. The precious-people of Nigeria are being treated as ‘slaves’, while public office-holders are daily riding on their heads. It is without a doubt and undoubtedly called an evil under the sun.

When politicians and would be politicians invest their last “kobo” in an election, it is not because they want to serve the common man; it is because they want the common man to serve them. This is why when they win, people rush to media houses and social media to congratulate them. If it is truly about serving the people, does it make sense congratulating ‘slaves’? The citizens are supposed to be ‘masters’ while politicians are supposed to be ‘slaves’, but it is the other way round here. And the most painful part of this malady and ill is that about 98% of Nigerians do not know this throbbing-reality.

Each time I see Presidents and Governors being attended to first during elections by the INEC officials, I know that democracy as it has been structured cannot deliver the yearnings of the common man, especially in Nigeria. Political office-holders are supposed to vote last, not first. If there was anyone to be attended to last during the last presidential election, it was supposed to be the President of Nigeria! He is a servant, not a master! He is the last citizen, not the number one citizen of Nigeria. The honor that is given to servants, employees is supposed to be given to the employers, the people, precious-citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

How can those who are voted for be superior to those who vote for them? How can public-servants be valued more than the citizens of Nigeria? The citizens of Nigeria work for about forty-years (40years), serving the country and while retiring from active service, they are given wall-clocks and some coins—if  they get paid at all, but a Governor serves for four (4) years and he becomes a multi-billionaire—with mansions in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. A man was very poor before he became a president and under eight (8) years, he became the richest Black President on earth! Another name for democracy is deception! The wise deceiving the unwise!

I cannot crack let alone swallow it; each time I see ‘slaves’ being heavily protected while ‘masters’ are daily being vulnerable to attacks from armed-robbers, terrorists, bandits and herdsmen. Who should be protected more, the ones who vote or the ones who are being voted for? I have been to most of the States in Nigeria and I have been driven to most of the houses built by our ‘slaves’ and I know how heavily protected they are, but ‘masters’, citizens are being left to protect themselves. Nigerians are protecting themselves. When you build a house in Nigeria, you make your fence so tall like Goliath and strong (like the wall of Jericho) to almost reach heaven as a tower of Babel and put well-built men to man your gate and ultimately get security-men to protect everyone in the neighborhood at nights.

If it is truly about serving the precious people of Nigeria, during elections, why spilling blood of those they are vainly professing to serve? Rivers State became Rivers of blood during the last gubernatorial election. Many lives were lost across the length and breadth of Nigeria. Is this madness about self-service? It is clearly about greed and lust for power. Power in Nigeria is used to serve self, not to serve the people. This is why politicians are no longer building as the generation of Dr. Lateef Jakande, they have now become locusts, destroying precious lives and monumental structures! Today, virtually every of our epic structures are fast becoming history.

In Oyo State, a political leader was gunned down! Why are men killing themselves, if it truly about service, selfless-service? Being in politics today in Nigeria is worse than being in the field of war. Brothers are killing themselves, all in the name of wanting to serve the people. Today, it is the love of money and power that drive people to politics, not selfless-service and it is so poignant and worrisome!

Today, it will be very hard as diamond to become a lasting-billionaire in Nigeria without being either actively or passively in politics. Even if you are not a card-carrying member of any political party, you would have to be clandestinely supporting those in power—in kind and with some cash. This is what every billionaire in Nigeria today is doing. Ideologically, it is impossible to be publicly against those in power and be an enduring-billionaire in Nigeria!

Nigeria is not going to truly move to the fore until the citizens of our promising country realize that they are ‘masters’ while the politicians are ‘slaves’. The honor that goes to politicians should go to the citizens. Infact, the office of the citizens of Nigeria is higher than the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The politicians are supposed to be in awe of you, not the other way round.

From this moment frontward, kindly understand that it is an evil under the clouds of Nigeria when those who are being voted for—to be enjoying—while those who are voting for them, are picking food from varied dust-bins across the length and breadth of Nigeria. How can politicians be enjoying what you are daily dying to access? To truly change and take Nigeria to the next-level, Nigerians need to stop maintaining the status-quo!