By Abba Dukawa, guest columnist
I am not sure how to address our late Nigeria presidents since the formal curtsey of your Excellency is of no use to them since they are in eternity. But this open memo has become necessary to intimate you on the state of the Nation after 61 years of statehood. I am like having an imaginary conversation with late Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Major General Aguiyi Ironsi, General Murtala Mohammed, Chief Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, General Sani Abacha, Umaru Musa Yaradua, and Shehu Shagari.
For your information, your dreams for born and unborn citizens to have a united and peaceful country with the full potential of being among the leading developing nations categorically dreamed have been shattered. You left this world with unaccomplished dreams for citizens to have a country that can call them but today citizens in the country are divided and living standards moving from bad to worse three squares of meals beyond of reach of millions home. At 61 citizens don’t fells security because the country has facing a great challenge of insecurity.
It is dispiriting to tell you that Mr. president compared the challenges and sufferings being faced by Nigerians under the present administration to the agony of the civil war, which underscores the horrible situation in the country today. I know only Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Major General Aguiyi Ironsi did not witness the ugly images of; the killings, lawlessness, violence, human rights violations, poverty, hunger, starvation, and other horrible situations as also being witnessed during the civil war.
In spite of Nigeria’s enormous wealth, the country became a global capital of poverty as more than 100 million people living on less than $1 a day. At 61 Nigeria still battling with poor economic policies, poor leadership, nepotism, and mismanagement of resources. To the greatest of all these disappointments which have shaped our country in the last six decades almost every sector in the country is decaying due to the lack of political will of successive leaders. I know the information will distract your peaceful sleeping in your eternity.
The country you left behind is not the Nigeria you have wishes your successors and the citizens to have. Your successors have not done aright things in building a country with strong economic like our contemporaries nations that are in the league of developing nations.
It is disheartening to let know you that we had a great opportunity for the country to regains its lost glory when we had a change of government in 2015 with unwavering hope that the administration will set an agenda for national rebirth and put the economy on reset. Instead of the change, the future of the unborn one future has been mortgaging with debt skyrocketed to N33.107 trillion(about $87.239B), in a statement obtained from DMO’s as at March 31, 2021. In spite of this debt still, the Present administration seeking approval for additional borrowing of more than $4 billion from international lenders for infrastructure projects for the 2018-2021 medium-term (rolling) external borrowing plan. Nigerians recall all the previous loans had not led Nigeria’s economic growth except hardship due to lack of sound economic policies.
Precisely six years ago the administration failing in creating the basis for improved economic prosperity because of the absence of economists in the cabinet. Central Bank of Nigeria’s financial policies also deteriorating the country’s economic coupling with twice economic recessions and devaluation of our national currency against US dollar and other African countries currencies also worrisome. Kai Ghanaian and Nigerien currency doing better in the international market than the naira is the last six years.
Your Excellency, citizens are regretting that our yesterday as a nation was better than our today. There are no indices to show that citizens tomorrow will be better. The leaders were not taking the right steps and placing the country on the way to bankruptcy.
Finally, Peoples are not happy with the way things moving where our perceived Lion King is encircled by jackals and hyenas, and even rodents one that not is fighting for the administration is having a field day.
Continue rest in peace.
Abba Dukawa can be reached at abbahydukawa@gmail.
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