Nigeria’s Fleeing Era -By Kene Obiezu

Even rats know to leap out of a sinking ship. It is because with every part coming aside on the seams to leap out, to do something remotely proactive could make the distinction between life and loss of life.

Each nation that has grow to be nice, or aspires to be nice, normally is aware of that greatness can’t be divorced from the contentment of residents. So, for these nations the place critical management is in place, and critical steps are taken to engender or maintain greatness, the contentment of the citizenry shouldn’t be taken as a right. It is because all those that have efficiently constructed nice nations know that in finishing up what is nearly a Sisyphean job, content material residents type an important ingredient. As a result of nobody pair of palms can do it, to get residents on board, they must be made joyful initially.

In Nigeria nonetheless, the expertise over a few years has proven the reverse to be the case. There was failure to make issues work within the nation and through the years, an accumulation of those failures has spun a scenario of deep-seated hopelessness, helplessness, haplessness and frustration. The response has been a spectacular one.

A visceral response

To reply to grimness of the scenario, each day, Nigerians sit and put plans in place to depart the nation. These plans, directly elaborate and beautiful, don’t fail to smack of desperation and even folly. The urge is generally to depart and no extra.

Whether or not it’s by way of the Libyan desert or blind journeys to European cities the place they stay below backbreaking circumstances, the need to stay the nation nearly can’t be curtailed.

It’s many Nigerians fleeing the nation to hunt greener pastures elsewhere. Many Nigerians intentionally ignore every part implied when it’s stated that the pastures are at all times greener on the opposite facet to make the journey to depart Nigeria. At all times, their hearts are buoyed by the desires of locations the place issues work in addition to they need to, of programs that click on into place to make life only a bit simpler.

Those that go away Nigeria reply to the chaos again residence. The Tutorial Employees Union of Universities (ASUU) has efficiently floor actions in Nigerian universities for greater than six months now in what has now grow to be an annual sparring contest with the federal authorities. Whereas a authorities full of folks whose kids get pleasure from the advantages of education in international establishments drags its toes as it might afford to, Nigerian undergraduate college students proceed to sulk at residence.

In a rustic the place many individuals are more and more starved of main healthcare, docs and nurses proceed to depart the nation in droves to seek for higher alternatives for themselves and their households? Who can blame them? They don’t even really feel too homesick afterall for when folks in authorities are as irritated by as a lot as an itch, they search therapy in international hospitals making for an unbelievable reunion.

On the coronary heart of the desperation of many younger folks to depart the nation is despair: at what Nigeria has grow to be and what it’s turning into by the hands of those that couldn’t care much less.

However the troubling actuality stays that with different nations rigorously planning their affairs, and in lots of circumstances curbing the quantity of people that can enter their nations, Nigerians can’t all go away for the sensible causes that there wouldn’t be sufficient locations elsewhere for the nation`s 216 million residents.

If that is so, the duty of fixing Nigeria has by no means been extra pressing and it might not be left for these whose impaired imaginative and prescient doesn’t transcend the strains of their pockets.

Kene Obiezu,
Twittter: @kenobiezu

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