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Ten Years Ago In Nigeria...
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We had hoped to be free fom tyranny.
we had hoped we will now choose our leaders.
We had hoped that public institutions will be above board.
We had hoped to have constant power supply.
We had hoped that our roads will cease to be death traps.
we had hoped our hospitals will no longer be mere consulting clinics.
We had hoped that infant and maternal mortality rates will reduce considerably.
We had hoped that we will have portable water at good intervals.
We had hoped that we will be sleeping with our two eyes closed.
We had hoped strikes by workers will not be recurrent.
We had hoped that our institutions will be among some of the best in the continent.
We had hoped that our economy will be more vibrant.
We had hoped that standard of living will improve and life expectancy above fifty.
We had hoped those "scorpions" who looted our treasury will be behind bars.
We had hoped that our sports men and women will win more Laurels and raise our flag high.
We had hoped that our Darling super Eagles will soar Higher.
We had hoped never to see political brigandage again.
We had hoped good fiscal policies and democratic ideals by now should have been more rooted.

These were our hopes when we came out of captivity.
We Were held captives for sixteen years by Millitary dictators.
We danced, sang, cried and shouted for Joy on that day, 29th may 1999.

Ten Years have passed and we are now wondering;
The so called freedom and our days of captivity which is better?
Are we progressing or retrogressing?
Is democracy In Nigeria an anatema to good governance?
Is Politics in Nigeria antithesis to free and fair election?

I still have hope... some day we will shout eureka!
I beleive in the system but not the operators of the system.
God Bless The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

May 29, 2009 | 4:46 PM Comments  2 comments

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ojeremen Stephen Ojeremen
May 31, 2009 | 4:43 PM
We had hoped
Only cowards bow down to their fellow humans in the name of kingships and lordships.I used myself to emphasis on the reality on ground and not to boast my personality.Come on , the first step to solve our collective problems is to recognise these problems.If we don't ,then we are not ready to solve them.I don't know your level of exposure, if you have seen developed nations and compare them to the current state of Nigeria , you should be feeling the pain. It's not individuals like me and you that provide infrastructures to the people but the government.Our government inaction and refusal to call a spade a spade are very very dangerous. That Nigeria ,a 7th producer of world crude oil is 1000000 years behind Europe and America in infrastructural development ,is very very painful.Not only that there is total dilapidation of infrastructures,the human beings are also mentally degraded.

One thing,I have hope that Nigeria will rise up and take her stand someday.

sim008 Simon James
June 2, 2009 | 6:50 AM
Offcourse
That's right brother. It's disheartening that in the midst of plenty we are lacking so much.
I am yet travel out of the shores of Nigeria but with what I see on TV and read about other countries I know we are like a Hundred years behind.
It will be very difficult for Nigerians to come together and fight a common enemy because of the divisive tendencies. Those reaping from the rot in our system are using these negative tendencies to our disadvantage.
However, I beleive individuals like you and I can make alot difference but insisting on what is right
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