My dear ‘Naijarians’, it is my duty as a citizen of this great and dilapidated nation, to remind you of an adage inspired by this present predicament, that when the Fuel gets scarce, the scarcity gets its Fueling. And like coma, we keep falling in and out of fuel scarcity.
At the end of this tunnel, there are tail lights from rows of cars queuing for fuel while the government keeps driving us crazy on BRT lanes. I keep drumming these words to your ears because even with my eyes wide shut, I can see the citizens being fucked over in a corruptible eroticism, while the Presidency continues to trade blames on Broad Street. Our pains are now sold per liter and the pump price of corruption is constantly being tampered with. Even the wicked in Nigeria knows there’s no rest as he navigates a soundscape enriched by the symphony from the generator sound. But the righteous holds dearly to his fuel kegs and car keys while enduring a sabbatical at the gas station.
The great Madiba knew there was a long road to freedom, but successive Nigerian presidents refused to tar this road. As the Petroleum minister, the current president is both the driver and the conductor, and while the people keep screaming for change, he calmly demands being given time. But “wetin concern agbero with overload” quips the Senator, who surprisingly believes these passengers aren’t reasonable with their demands and places the blame on excess Maggi but what do we ‘Knorr’? Aren’t we mere janitors on the floor of the house? While the chief thief whips us like a hersdman does its cattle.
We have been dehumanized as a people, constantly deprived of the fundamental human rights that citizenry affords. No free or affordable health care, who even cares about the welfare of the people when the government hospitals sometimes hoard drugs and their private pharmacies become the black market and the only option as they have helped killed the system that is meant to keep the people alive. No one knows if this federal road we are on will lead to freedom or if we would ever get to a bus-stop called “promise land” but for Nigerians, the queue must continue.
#Foodforthought
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