If
Nigeria is working, we will know! Those were the exact words of late Prof Chinua
Achebe, Africa’s foremost novelist and distinguished intellectual. In other
words, the citizens do not need any bogus claims by government’s megaphones to
realise that there is an improvement in their country’s economy because it will
automatically translate to an enhancement in their lives.
*President receiving a get-well card |
And as
they enter the markets to procure their basic needs or engage service providers
for some of those services they just cannot do without, they would certainly
have direct encounters with the “improvements” their country is alleged to have
witnessed.
But
sadly, what they are still seeing everywhere are benumbing evidences of
further deterioration and the attendant pains – a direct result of
very poor management of their country.