I increasingly think this object Nigerians call a country is a waste of time.
It is akin to pouring water into a leaking basket.
We could build all the fine houses we like, engage in as much politiking as we like, we don't have a nation.
What we have is a jungle.
A no-mans-land where wild animals roam and among whom some humans insist they want to dwell.
The problem is not the strange 2016 budget in which millions were allocated to pay rent on the official residency of the national ruler.
The problem is not the allocation of millions for books for the office of the Vice-President, or the massive amounts allocated for food in the ruler's residence, along with other silly allocations in mind staggering amounts.
The problem is not the current chasing of political opponents in the name of fighting corruption while ignoring members of the national ruler's team who have spent millions in building a personal website or in hosting a birthday, among other inanities.
The problem is not with the years long consistent murders, rapes and pogroms by Fulani herdsmen/militia, reaching a climax in the ongoing Agatu massacre in which which whole communities have been rendered full of corpses and razed to the ground as the Fulani move in with their cows to occupy the land while the government presided over by a Fulani man surrounded by his cronies maintains silence or pretends what is happening is a quarrel between neighbours.
All these are expressions of the fact that the social space and geographical entity where all this is taking place is not fit for human habitation, no matter how much people pretend about it.
It is simply a space where brigands are in control and those who have an understanding with these brigands can do anything they like.
Form new political parties, debate endlessly about one issue or another, ultimately anything different from close collective examination of the social space called Nigeria, allowing those who want to leave the forced union to do so and those who wish to remain to do so, while establishing the terms for either choice, is a waste of time.
Anything else can only benefit those who are happy with life in the jungle.
thanks
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
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