In our individual ways, we all contribute to the stultified growth of the pigmy called Nigeria that we now castigate. The lecturer who subverts academy to make quick money; the journalist who collects bribe to adorn bad people in whitewashed robes; the contractor who shrinks budgets so as to amass enough cash and the government official who collects bribe on contracts, with the result of a haphazardly executed project. Let them send their children to Johns Hopkins University and watch as our public universities turn into rat holes. Their well-trained children will someday come back here and get killed by our miscreant children who should have attended those public universities. We will all suffer for every tissue of our subversion of the system. Indeed, we are right now.
So, nobody should make any homily to those who are destroying this country – all of us. We will meet the country we created in full throttle. If Badeh, Alkali and other victims of a Nigeria they created had known, they would have lent a helping hand to the call for restructuring of Nigeria to a land we can all be proud of.
by Festus Adedayo
