It is obvious that there are several interests always tending to retard the wheels of the progress government attempts to attain, hindering the delivery of good governance to the very helpless of citizens - we are living today with an example of how very common people, at their own levels, also understand why "the rich also cry".

There are several "fallen" establishments for good governance, where government has done everything almost impossible to turnaround unsuccessfully, because of how the human interests in these establishments, on a continuous bases, are, and must be protected, to keep a sociopolitical balance, against the general prosperity of all Nigerians.

With our refineries and crude deposits, the federal government should be affording Nigerians fuel to consume at no cost at all. In the face of our two-way allocation of crude: international trade and local consumption, it is my opinion that there are manners that our international trade can be managed and made to augment for the needs of local consumption.

But Nigeria is a country whose leaders prefer to save-out funds meant for our development stached in their private accounts, saving them for "sharing" to the people during elections, while they prefer borrow other foreign "development funds", from international lenders, at "very affordable interest" considerations, and expect our children to pay these loans in the future, to develop us now.

How are we raising our children now, to pay for the loan we have been utilizing in the future? Truth has no borders, and cannot be enclosed.

Until erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo took the bull by the horns to liberalize the government's communication sector, access to telecommunication, and information technology were out of the reach of the common people, unlike today when even my aged mother enjoys social media interactions across the world, and she is not blaming government for her not being able to afford recharge vouchers.

We can tell the same story, especially about our petroleum, health, and power sectors, and make the citizens investing and consuming from these sectors independent of government patronages. Who are the petroleum marketers who depend on government to do business? Who are the generators sellers who depend on government to import generators? Who are the medicines and medical equipment dealers who depend on government for subsidies, waivers on licences and duties? They rob Nigerians!

These are those, in these sectors, that government urgently needs to divorce as business partners. Government must begin to deal with third party (middlemen) operators of facilities and utilities of government in a way to prevent them from depending on government, in anyway, and for anything apart from implementing the right policies, and providing environments conducive for business. Paramount to this condusiveness, is "the market", and Nigeria provides the biggest and largest market, in terms of patronage, in the whole of Africa, and the 5th in the world.

Nigerian leaders are never conscious of our successes to repeat them, they, rather, always, love to repeat our history, as a people condemned to repeat the sad parts of life. Can we imagine the success the liberalization of our communication sector has engendered, are we conscious of it?

More than 32% of our unemployable youths are now self-employed, especially from "phone-charging", "voucher sales", "network marketting", all these, in very simple instances, and in an advance example, let us look at what "Big Brother Naija" is racking in financially, solely from software applications. All these, dealing with just one area of our economic investments, the quantum success, and the expansion of the ecomomic access for the prosperity of all. More than 97% of Nigerians have access to telecommunication and infotech.

It is therefore my advice, that the Buhari administration must urgently take up the power sector first, and liberalize it like the communication sector, and then health and finally the petroleum sector. It will not be easy to adjust to the drastic changes in the market econonies, until they stabilize, just like it was not when the cost of "Nokia 3310" could pay for an "Infinix Hot 8 Pro" android phone today. The cost of "sim card" then, could pay for 5000GB SD memory card And the cost of weekly calls then could pay for 15,000MB of data today. Yet both phone and its usage limited us to only calls and SMS. We have indeed made obvious advances.

But the story has changed today, phones and sim cards are at no price, and I believe that the story can still change for our health, power and petroleum sectors. Government only needs to possess the will to govern the people well. Unfortunately, Nigeria is a country where "interests" are defined to benefit individual leaders and this makes for the robbery of our national and collective interest. And this will not stop until the people rise to change the aberration.

I pray the Almighty God helps us with eyesalves to heal our mental blindness, so that we can see where government is taking us for granted and rise with the peoples power against the bad and derelict approach of our leaders to governance.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347(Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com.