01/10/2021
🇳🇬 NIGERIA AT 61, HOW FAR WE HAVE GONE AND THE WAY FORWARD🇳🇬
BY
Comr Terver T Jr Best *
The journey of our nationhood began 61 years ago when the Union Jack flag was lowered for the Green White Green flag to be hoisted🇳🇬. This took place on the 1st of October making the day to be declared as “INDEPENDENT DAY” and this has been a normal ceremony every year where the sitting president delivers his independent day speech and tell us why we should remain as one loving Country.
But my question is *”as a country at 61, have we really achieved anything that is worth this celebration, if no, why did we cry for freedom?*
let’s leave theories and face practical.
To me, at 61🇳🇬; we are yet to have a leader who hears the voice of his subjects and attend to them, we are yet to find our bearings of economic development, political stability, secured life and properties, peace, unity and HARMONY, religious freedom, food security, human development, instead ..
what we see is increased in *crime rates,* killings of innocent souls, *fulani herdsmen tormenting our farmers, *poor infrastructures etc
We are known as the giant of Africa but we still cannot provide effective leadership, quality medical facilities, quality road facilities, quality housing scheme, quality education, employments to her teeming populations,
At 61🇳🇬, our country still remains one of the most corrupt Nations on the planet.
*At 61🇳🇬, should I say that we are doomed or failed as a nation?*
The effect of this national failure is that, while other countries put food on the table for their citizens, give hope to their citizens, protect their citizens and develop their abundant resources for economic growth and development which affect the lives of the citizens, our own country is still crawling behind.
We are still fighting the same war since independent.
*How did we get here?*
At 61🇳🇬 years down the line, we still grapple gigantically in the dark with an unending lists
