A Desperate Plea To My President

Your Excellency, 

 RE: Nigeria's Slow But Steady Descent Into Chaos

Kindly allow me to paint this rather worrying picture for you.

Inaccessible road junctions, traffic at a standstill on most expressways, policemen and soldiers trying in vain to keep the peace at every petrol station, and citizens fighting each other as a result of being pushed to breaking point. Homes without light or water, businesses without staff, and an economy that is now officially going backwards.‎

This, your excellency is no ordinary picture. Rather it is the very grim reality of today's Nigeria - your Nigeria.

Walking past a petrol station earlier today I witnessed a bunch of individuals sarcastically chanting "change, change, change" as each stood over his small generator whilst waiting to buy petrol. Yes Sir, that's right - Nigeria's citizens now have no other option but to take their small generators to petrol stations!

Whilst this may seem a small incident I want to encourage you not to take it lightly in any way. Such chants being voiced by the very people that voted for you strongly suggests the average Nigerian has lost all confidence in your ability to move this nation forward.

Do They Really Care About Us?

Asked if the unions were not concerned about the effect of the strike on the already bad state of fuel supply across the country, Comrade Saleh Abdullahi replied, "The fuel scarcity problem has been there before we embarked on this strike, we did not cause it. However, we know this strike will increase it; that's the only way to let the government know that we are not comfortable with the unbundling or restructuring that it has done at the NNPC."

The above quote sums up the reason Nigeria continues to stumble in the dark.

Who's stumbling?

The administration is stumbling for one, and we the people are most definitely stumbling.

And the reason for our incessant stumbling? - lack of communication.

But before we address yet another administration's inability to carry the electorate along, let's examine Abdullahi's statement for a few seconds.