Why Nigeria's Current Situation may Not be Too Bad

Enonche Kelly

 By Enonche Kelly

Whereas, the current state of the nation is typically devastating, to say in the least, it is however a debatable opinion to address that it may have been a benefit the nation - or put in other words, it may have not been so bad a situation as many understand it. According to Kelly, the country has been swallowed in the excessive use of the economy without conscience. The act of managing the economy of the nation has been left on the floor to rot because there have been so much to squander without a second thought

CONSIDER THIS WITH ME

 The economy is at a stand still we have been hearing. We can't afford groceries anymore, we are careful to manage the clothes we have. We bargain prices where we would have paid and given a tip. Transportation shot up, earning remains stagnant but to compete against very unfair market behaviour, education cost is fast becoming a threat to education itself, tribal hatred for literally no reasons, governments are slow on salaries payments, they are cutting down earnings in the civil service, every eye is losing colour from too hard a strain. There is no exclusion this time,  the rich and the poor are alike fiscal wisdom now.  This year records the least number of reckless holiday trips overseas in millions of the naira, a kind of competitive ritual among Nigerian middle class individuals. Many more which I have left out are being talked about angrily.

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I write from a corner of my room sincerely. If we will be honest, we will admit that Nigerians do not intend to live according to their earnings. We are not a humble nation. We had spent decades floating in a pompous economy of stolen wealth, splashed into circulation by libidinous politicians and contractors and blatantly unchecked by responsible government agencies. In that economy, many had too much to spare, good uncles and aunties sprung from nowhere to help and so did sugar daddies and mummies litter the front yard of growing destinies, overly willing to pay for so much as a beard rub.

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In that economy, advanced fee fraud made colossal profit, why would you care to be careful when there is so much to spare? Lagos club would never smell right again, it's corrupt atmosphere overpowered by alcohol, drug and sex.  In the ear, idle rantings of bloated voices broken by boast and meat, full chicken for a man who wasn't hungry and mad tips on his way out, he is a member of a state house of assembly or a friend of one, too much to spare. State house Owerri, as I sit and watch in my brief stay, I am turned sickly in my depths, no policy meetings, no intelligence, hairy and unclad chests out in the open with bald brains and loud stomachs to support greedy and vitriolic suppression of names that denied them contracts. And of course hordes of cigarettes, puffed smoke, champagne and cream (Irish) to go with violence both of tongue and hand. That economy made the street girl happy and the banker happy and nearly dragged palm wine from the mouths of poor patrons.

CONSIDER that once there is reduction in excess, the addicts of excess having understood nothing logical about frugality and restraint, immediately receive the need to live responsibly as an attack on his god given comfort. His first economic move is a movie, a literary portrait of increased prices in all his businesses. He already has a bevy of allies and he is happy to host them to one dark night of conspiracies against the forces that motivated against his god given excess.

YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE...

The suffering of the Nigerian public is not so much motivated by miscalculation in policy as it is instigated on sickly incremental bases by the sick need to defy commonsense and sustain consumption. The forces of demand and supply no longer control the Nigerian market, it is now controlled by the forces of revenge. A dangerous ally of forces because they are as unthinking as babies, as brutal as Vikings to get back to an economy without control.

CONSIDER THIS WITH ME AS ONE REASON THERE IS SO MUCH SILENCE IN OUR DREAMS.