Nigeria at 59 : The fall of a great country. By @Omobabaijebu101

My country men and women let me take us back a bit to 2009, when the federal government of nigeriabrought about the vision 2020, the goal then was that by "2020 Nigeria will be one of the 20 largest economies in the world, able to consolidate its leadership role in Africa and establish itself as a significant player in the global economic and political arena"
Nigeria economy covers manufacturing, finance, service communications, technology and entertainment sectors. Nigeria is ranked 27th largest economy in the world, 7th place short of its 20th position mark in 2009, with few month to go, I don't think it's possible for Nigeria to meet the mark.
Let's no forget that Nigeria has the biggest economy in Africa but how as it affected the life of a common man?
In the year 1999 the unemployment rate of Nigeria was at 4.01% with a population of over 119 million, that is a larger percentage of our people have one or two things they were doing to earn a living, between 1999 to 2019 Nigeria population has increased to 200 million, that's about twice the figure we have in 1999, but then the unemployment is currently on the high at 23%, it means more people lost their job or investments.
Our leaders are selfish and corrupt, most of them have held up to power since 1999 with nothing to show for the role they have played in developing Nigeria.
From unemployment to insecurities to lack of basic amenities to lack of basic health facilities e.t.c, our politicians have not been able to build the Nigeria of our dream for the past 59 years, today they will all gather to celebrate independence, in the right sense we are still in bondage, the only difference is that before it was the white men that were holding us but now it's our politicians that are holding us to ransom.
In the year 2015, when the leadership of president Muhammadu Buhari came on board, they promised heaven and earth, they promise to drive the country on the right path and bring back the glory days, little do we know that we are in for a 8-year torture and bad governance.
The last 4years Nigeria lacked quality leadership, instead of celebrating 59th indepence with lots of achievements, Nigeria will be rembered by the rest of the world has the poverty capital of the world, Nigeria is not safe to give birth, Nigeria has the highest out of school children, the list can go on, On how our leaders have failed us.
The north east /north west have seen bandits and Boko haram take almost half of the villages, instead of fighting insurgency our leaders have resulted to spiritual warfare or paying ransom to this set of wicked people, how do we fight insurgency when the government encourage them to do more by paying or praying for them. The special anti robbery squad, are the latest killers and extortionist in town, killing and extorting innocent citizens of their hard earned money, regards to people who have lend their voices to speak up against the oppression from the men of the police force.
In 1967 when idea of Biafra started and led to the Civil War, one would have thought that Nigeria will split, but after the war ended in 1970 we were able to come together as one for the development of our dear nation, today we are more divided due to the attitude of our leaders, today we can say two indepence day are being celebrated, while one his on record as October 1 the other is used as a Remembrance day for the Biafra agitation, in the right sense we all know that day is a sign that the people needs freedom. This division is everywhere, we are now blinded by our ethnic affiliation even into government position, the current leadership have abandoned federal character.
The recent clampdown on the press also show our we have deteriorated, freedom of speech is no longer guaranteed, about 10 or more persons have been arrested and are in detention for holding their government accountable, the recent one is dadiyata who was kidnapped from his home in August and till today he hasn't been found. Is this how we will continue? Is this the dream of our founding fathers? These are question on the lips of every Nigerian, lack of leadership have drawn us back and at 59 we can only conclude that Nigeria is 59 years backwards.

May Almighty God heal our land

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