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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

I love my country, but my country does not love me. Simple question, simple answer.

No need to elaborate. The scenarios play out themselves everyday.:cool:

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Who is actually your country to love you? A geographical entity called nigeria or the inept politicians called the leaders?.
The best caption for your piece would have been, "I love my country but her leaders do not love me" Nice piece though.

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I love my country, i no go lie ,
Na inside am i go live and die........

I suppose that's a very hypocritical song to sing by many of us Diasporians, right? Well, It was said somewhere long ago that 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country'. In any case, affiliations should be mutually beneficial to all parties concerned, and where that isn't the case, it might be a good idea for all concerned to seek their needs exclusive to each other.

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Author,
I feel your pain, l feel your anger, l feel your despair!
Before you sat down to write those words, when you could have written about some other mundane but more popular issues, something most be seriously bordering you...Your Contree!

The Political leaders are the representatives of the country.
Like every other Nigerian, the more we water-down our needs, the more our leaders prove incapable of being able to articulate, let alone proffer a meaningful solution.

Ours is a case of FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP. Q.E.D.
Keep your faith my friend, the day is fast approaching!
10Kobo

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It is quite embarrasing when one reads of the billions of naira squandered by our leaders on a daily basis on uncompleted or half baked projects when several millions of nigerians are living well below the poverty line.

It is very unforgivable that Nigeria should be termed an underveloped economy because we have so much resources, both intellectual and material, to lift us above the quagmire we find ourselves in today.
I used to think the problem lay with the power hungry older generation of leaders who hold tenaciously to power and have been in office under one guise or the other since the late sixties and early seventies, but when we read of our new generation politicians, some of whom are no older than in their mid forties, you begin to wonder just how pervasive greed and corruption has eaten into our society.

Some of the present crop of state governors and National Assembly members are young men and women, well educated and therefore very much aware of happenings in the outside world through use of the internet and constant recourse to the world media like the BBC and the CNN and other reputable media organisations. It could be argued quite correctly that Nigeria presently has the most educated set of politicians since independence in 1960and also the youngest collection of gorvenors and assembly men and women, and yet they repeat the mistakes of the past. They're quite as greedy and unfocussed politically as their father's of old who fall within the Obasanjo and Tony Annenih age bracket.

What is wrong with the Nigerian political class?


Why would public service never be seen as just that? Service to the public and fatherland? Not an avenue to steal and loot public treauries?

It gets even worse when supposed men of God camapaign and get elected only to eschew their religious training and morals and become worse than those that never saw the insides of a place of worship.

It never fails to amuse me when a politician is arrested or his election nullified by the tribunals and he blatantly calls on God to vindicate him.

what is wrong with our political class?

Nearly all of them travel the world and see how other gorvenments are run on a platform of transparency and accounatbility and how credible men and women of repute chose to resign their positions whenever any whiff of scandal is linked to their good names. The Nigerian politician holds strongly to his office and dares the people to do their worst and thumps his nose at everyone until the powerful wind of change blows him out, ridiculing himself and his office.

Why does the Nigerian politician never get it right, government after successive governement?

When Abacha died in office and the billions of dollars he looted and stashed away became public knowledge, the world was shocked and Nigerians scandalised by the rapacious greed of one man.
some of us attributed it to his being a military officer and his was a government thatwas never elected and therefore was unaccountable to anyone.

We looked forward to a new dawn of governance and probity when the civilians took over in 1999, with president Obasanjo standing on a moral high ground.

No sooner had the two term tenure of the past administration ended than we are deluded daily with the same scandalous looting and public stealing of government funds by those elected and trusted with our money as we heard after Abacha's demise.

what is wrong with our political class? How much money does one man need in a life time? How many car and houses and other properties does one individual need for himself and his family?

Can Nigeria ever get it right? Would we ever be blessed with a political class that is satisfied with the millions of naira they are legitimately payed as salaries and entiltlements and use public money for public good? will we always be cursed with the Mobutu's and the Abacha's of this world?

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=10Kobo;4295081988>
Ours is a case of FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP. Q.E.D.
Keep your faith my friend, the day is fast approaching!
10Kobo

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........and followership too! Don't forget that leaders are made and not born!!:wink::wink:
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=omakingbogun;4295081925>In any case, affiliations should be mutually beneficial to all parties concerned, and where that isn't the case, it might be a good idea for all concerned to seek their needs exclusive to each other.

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omaks, i disagree with you here largely because, i still do love my country but like many other Nigerians i am disillussion by the lack of basic welfare facilities that goes a long way in making the ordinary man on the street's life that little bit easy. So what other options do i have that to find a way of making a better life for myself. If that means seeking refuge in a foreign land, then so be it.

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=Robot;4295081783>...Read the full article.

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Fisrt thaks for showing that love be cause some citizen here have forgotten their father's land

Again no matter what nigeria has cause you, she will sur ely be your father's land
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=Dewdrops;4295081830>Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

I love my country, but my country does not love me. Simple question, simple answer.

No need to elaborate. The scenarios play out themselves everyday.:cool:

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Answer the simple question and the simple answer, do you want to lay blames against the Go v ernment or the citi ze n, or what? Nigeria her self? so what then?
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=tonyben33;4295081910>Who is actually your country to love you? A geographical entity called nigeria or the inept politicians called the leaders?.
The best caption for your piece would have been, "I love my country but her leaders do not love me" Nice piece though.

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No wonder some folks ran from Nigeria to another country to be loved, sorry ooo, are you looking for Love? then why are you married? am sorry for that, but that's just what you meant
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=omakingbogun;4295081925>I love my country, i no go lie ,
Na inside am i go live and die........

I suppose that's a very hypocritical song to sing by many of us Diasporians, right? Well, It was said somewhere long ago that 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country'. In any case, affiliations should be mutually beneficial to all parties concerned, and where that isn't the case, it might be a good idea for all concerned to seek their needs exclusive to each other.

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Thanks very much, i feel you for the first time with this reply, sorry did i say for the first time? i have been feeling you all this while jare, it's just that i can't erase what i typed, no eraser lol

Once again Bro, that's what i have been looking forward to hearing from others
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=10Kobo;4295081988>Author,
I feel your pain, l feel your anger, l feel your despair!
Before you sat down to write those words, when you could have written about some other mundane but more popular issues, something most be seriously bordering you...Your Contree!

The Political leaders are the representatives of the country.
Like every other Nigerian, the more we water-down our needs, the more our leaders prove incapable of being able to articulate, let alone proffer a meaningful solution.

Ours is a case of FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP. Q.E.D.
Keep your faith my friend, the day is fast approaching!
10Kobo

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10kobo, thanks for that, it's just fantastic of you, something is bodering them, but no matter what, i t just have to be withing them, be cause you are like trying to change the FAITH of others.

Ki ni ka wa se? Awa ti a n gbe ilu Naija?
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=shinycoin;4295082031>It is quite embarrasing when one reads of the billions of naira squandered by our leaders on a daily basis on uncompleted or half baked projects when several millions of nigerians are living well below the poverty line.

It is very unforgivable that Nigeria should be termed an underveloped economy because we have so much resources, both intellectual and material, to lift us above the quagmire we find ourselves in today.
I used to think the problem lay with the power hungry older generation of leaders who hold tenaciously to power and have been in office under one guise or the other since the late sixties and early seventies, but when we read of our new generation politicians, some of whom are no older than in their mid forties, you begin to wonder just how pervasive greed and corruption has eaten into our society.

Some of the present crop of state governors and National Assembly members are young men and women, well educated and therefore very much aware of happenings in the outside world through use of the internet and constant recourse to the world media like the BBC and the CNN and other reputable media organisations. It could be argued quite correctly that Nigeria presently has the most educated set of politicians since independence in 1960and also the youngest collection of gorvenors and assembly men and women, and yet they repeat the mistakes of the past. They're quite as greedy and unfocussed politically as their father's of old who fall within the Obasanjo and Tony Annenih age bracket.

What is wrong with the Nigerian political class?


Why would public service never be seen as just that? Service to the public and fatherland? Not an avenue to steal and loot public treauries?

It gets even worse when supposed men of God camapaign and get elected only to eschew their religious training and morals and become worse than those that never saw the insides of a place of worship.

It never fails to amuse me when a politician is arrested or his election nullified by the tribunals and he blatantly calls on God to vindicate him.

what is wrong with our political class?

Nearly all of them travel the world and see how other gorvenments are run on a platform of transparency and accounatbility and how credible men and women of repute chose to resign their positions whenever any whiff of scandal is linked to their good names. The Nigerian politician holds strongly to his office and dares the people to do their worst and thumps his nose at everyone until the powerful wind of change blows him out, ridiculing himself and his office.

Why does the Nigerian politician never get it right, government after successive governement?

When Abacha died in office and the billions of dollars he looted and stashed away became public knowledge, the world was shocked and Nigerians scandalised by the rapacious greed of one man.
some of us attributed it to his being a military officer and his was a government thatwas never elected and therefore was unaccountable to anyone.

We looked forward to a new dawn of governance and probity when the civilians took over in 1999, with president Obasanjo standing on a moral high ground.

No sooner had the two term tenure of the past administration ended than we are deluded daily with the same scandalous looting and public stealing of government funds by those elected and trusted with our money as we heard after Abacha's demise.

what is wrong with our political class? How much money does one man need in a life time? How many car and houses and other properties does one individual need for himself and his family?

Can Nigeria ever get it right? Would we ever be blessed with a political class that is satisfied with the millions of naira they are legitimately payed as salaries and entiltlements and use public money for public good? will we always be cursed with the Mobutu's and the Abacha's of this world?

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Should when you and i are opportuned to be there, we will surely embezzle and even use the money to do what a mad man wouldn't do

you know, post is the highest ma dness ever? if you don't know, please note that today, it's a wise saying
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=EbonyLomo;4295082035>........and followership too! Don't forget that leaders are made and not born!!:wink::wink:
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omaks, i disagree with you here largely because, i still do love my country but like many other Nigerians i am disillussion by the lack of basic welfare facilities that goes a long way in making the ordinary man on the street's life that little bit easy. So what other options do i have that to find a way of making a better life for myself. If that means seeking refuge in a foreign land, then so be it.

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Why wouldn't you love Nigeria, after making all the thousand and millions of Pounds and dollars, Nigeria is the best place for exchange and a fantastic place to leave without paying excess tax LOL

Thanks so much, no matter what, i still love Nigeria, the only thing i hate is just the leadership!

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=omakingbogun;4295081925>I love my country, i no go lie ,
Na inside am i go live and die........

I suppose that's a very hypocritical song to sing by many of us Diasporians, right? Well, It was said somewhere long ago that 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country'. In any case, affiliations should be mutually beneficial to all parties concerned, and where that isn't the case, it might be a good idea for all concerned to seek their needs exclusive to each other.

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Meaning what exactly?

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Can you point to any person or thing who personifies 'your country'?

YOU are your country!