By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Many Nigerians are stuck with zero experience of what it means to live in a decently run society. Laden with a long history of mostly inept, insensitive and less-than patriotic leaders, it seems abnormal to expect any bit of improvement in their daily existence from the government. Massive infrastructural decay and regular reports of primitive accumulations of illicit wealth by light-fingered public officers have since lost their capacities to shock.
In fact, most people
have since adjusted their lives to perennially absorb the vicious impacts of these
debilitating vices. They only extract some bit of cold comfort from continually
reassuring themselves that they are in such a hopeless and helpless situation where
these excruciating fallouts of leadership failure will remain the resilient, inseparable
companions they are condemned to perpetually coexist with – which will always
be there to hurt their country and diminish their joy, peace and fulfillment.
Those who lack the
resources to obtain some form of alleviations resign themselves to fate hoping that
they would be able to sustain the capacity to continue enduring these searing rewards
of successive wayward and rudderless leaderships – which will remain their
perpetual sources of torments.
Even the Nigerians who reside in well-ordered societies, where leaders are accountable and basic amenities are meticulously provided and maintained, once they touch down on Nigerian soil automatically adjust their minds to endure the excruciating realities of life in Nigeria. They only derive some consolation from the fact that they would soon jet out again to where sanity and orderly existence are taken for granted.
