By Mike Ikhariale
Anyone watching the series of unpleasant events that have taken
place in Nigeria in the past few years cannot but conclude that this is a
country on a calamitous plunge. The sad part of the whole development is that
it does not appear as if the leadership and even the citizens themselves fully
appreciate the danger that is looming headlong like an onrushing train as
things have, to an exceptionally alarming extent, been treated in the habitual
lackadaisical manner of “business as usual” despite the increasingly
cataclysmic developments that are manifesting all around them and to which they
have no rational answers.
In a way, I feel as if I have the unusual misfortune of talking ceaselessly about the danger being posed to the polity by bad leadership and corruptive political culture with no one in a position to act positively taking notice of them. For those benefiting from the ongoing misfortunes and tragedies of the country, I might have already earned the sobriquet of an alarmist and possibly that of a prophet of doom.
