By Abike Olajide
In literature, tragedy
does not really connote something tragic but it means a re-evaluation and
possible redemption of a given situation. Truly, this is a season of darkness
and struggling: No power, no good roads, unemployment and poverty are on the alarming
rate. But surely, light will break and relief will fall.
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With much natural
abundant resources, Nigeria Nigeria
General Yakubu Gowon,
despite the oil money available to him, chose to increase workers’ salary
rather than use the money to build industries as foundation for a great
economy. His action led to inflation that the country is yet to be freed from.
President Shehu Shagari, a weakling, permitted politicians to loot the country
dry. Ibrahim Babangida introduced an economic policy, Structural Adjustment
Programme (SAP) that inflicted untold hardship on the people. Coupled with this
was that Nigeria
Do I need to say
anything about General Abacha, 18 years after his death, his looted funds are
still in different vaults around the globe. Olusegun Obasanjo, in his second
coming destroyed the country more than he met it. He paid the country’s debt
and those who facilitated it smiled home with hundreds of millions of dollars.
On his watch, infrastructural decadence reached its peak. Under him, though,
microeconomy was got right, credit line improved but he never touched
infrastructure. At the twilight of his term, he came into the realisation
that he had not met the aspiration of Nigerians and thus sought a third term.
Of course, he could not get it.
