THE REALITY IN NIGERIA'S ECONOMY: MY GRASS ROOT EXPERIENCE IN 7-DAYS.
Each time you moved up or down the ladder in Nigeria, you still found that some people still envisage your position either up the ladder or down the ladder. In whichever position we found ourselves on the ladder, let us all endeavour to glorify God for the gift of life above all things.
For the past 7days now in 4yrs, i have been conveying
myself and my two sons to school and to office on public transport
because i discovered that N220/litre of fuel doesn't make any economic
sense when compare with N300 to and fro movement in a public transport
that initially used to be N140 to n fro. My business is facing
challenges. My income is facing challenges. Maintaining my home is
facing challenges and in fact, my relationship with people is facing
challenges because i had been confronted recently by a friend with the
believe that,i am a stingy person. Be that as it may, i have never lost
focus on the need to let my two young sons realized that the situation
presently is general and not us alone and as such, my priority is their
proper well-being whilst i go on 0-0-1 or 1-0-1 or 1-0-0 as the case
maybe. In all these situation, on four occasion, i have had to settle
fight between driver and passenger in a commercial car or conductor and
passenger in a commercial bus by parting with my money for dispute
resolution and i felt fulfilled and praise God that despite my own
situation, i could still be better-off many others.
7-days ago,
on my way to work, i picked a man and his two daughters at the busstop
among several other people stranded due to our present economic
situation and drop them off at the daughters school before going to drop
my sons at school.
Yesterday at the busstop while struggling to board a bus among hundreds of people, this same man paved the way for me and my two sons to board the bus first because he saw that my sons are still very young compare to his daughters and above all because, one good turn deserves another and i felt like crying but i controlled my emotion.
In any situation i found myself, i am always stronger
and i appreciate God for that but the message i am trying to pass is
that, truly, Nigerians are suffering through the extravagant lifestyle
of our political leaders but we shall overcome.
I am an average
person or below average in terms of comfortability in this Country and
since i took the decision to join the crowd a week ago, i have seen that
truly, i know how our people are facing difficulty and poverty. In my
neighbourhood in Ibadan, i never knew that people have been referring to
me and my family as " awon eleyi ke! won mo nkan to n sele!" until they
saw me partaking in what they thought i didnt know anything about. I
didnt do this to please them but to truly understand situation of things
different from my own condition.
For us to move forward as a
Nation, i have understood better that the leaders must not be far away
from the people. By so doing, our problems would be like that shared and
half solved.
The reality on ground is that, though there maybe
some social media hopefuls but millions of Nigerians out here, in less
than 8-days that i had moved round on public transport, have lost hope
in that slogan called "change" in the present government.In every
occasion that i board public transport for 8-days(16times) to n fro and
some other locations i went to during work, i ensured i raise economic
debate and the story was the same every day, including today.
Which way
forward Nigerians?
We shall overcome!!!
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