Pray for Nigeria

I got in to work about an hour ago,and my usual routine is Instagram first before any other social media. So on Instagram I watched a funny clip on KraksTv of a guy ranting about the current situation in Nigeria,here’s the direct link to watch https://www.instagram.com/p/Bhub4xnBks-/?taken-by=krakstv. Its was hilarious undoubtedly but one of the statements he said had me thinking like wait,when did that happen. Okay,so YouTube is usually my last,just so I could watch Wendy Williams while I work,then I see a clip trending and its titled ‘Watch how thugs invaded Nigerian Senate plenary,snatched Mace’. Here’s the direct links to watch  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca_ssqG2Gs0    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG7Fs0UY9hA&t=174s. I clicked on it immediately because that was what I had heard from the funny clip I watched earlier. Now watching these clips just gave me chills because I felt rage,sad and extremely embarrassed of my country Nigeria. If the Senate can be infiltrated by one of its own with some thugs to forcefully grab the federal Mace,then what more is left to be done to us?. Our President consistently embarrassing us with every visit,speech and policy that falls out of his mouth. Naira ridiculously keeps going down the market,natural resources are never efficiently used,ethnic inequalities,gender inequality,labor force with little or no jobs for citizens,terrible roads,terrible police/men on uniform. Every single thing in Nigeria is definitely worse than upside down.

So now,what’s the way forward? Some would scream let’s pray for our country,which is good and I agree with especially since I’m a Christian but we need more than prayers at this point. I hear a lot of people (me included) say that we should be colonized again,by the Britain(well I don’t care who does it as long as some one else is calling the shots). We’ve gotten to a level of frustration that even the absurd just seems normal to us. I really doubt that someone from another country can stay in Nigeria;we’re just too toxic. If praying for Nigeria wouldn’t help us much what’s the way forward,VOTING? Yes absolutely. I’ve never voted before actually,I don’t even have my card but I’m definitely getting it at this point. My friends would say that voting is one thing but it having and revealing effects/change is another,which is a great concern of many young people right now. Do our votes count? Do we really have the power or future as we have always been told? There was a time I used to think(I kind of still do),that killing every single person in power right now would take us half the way in to purifying our land haaaha. Come to think of it,its actually a circle for the politicians in Nigeria,joggling their roles at Aso rock so long as they’re in power-its God-fatherism. This is our problem. So which other way than their death?