Our priority

Its funny how I find that as a people, we Nigerians don't prioritize and have no real sense of urgency. I feel like we have a long-winded way of reaching an end because we fail to plot logically. For example, a woman who does not have a job will borrow money to look pretty but not eat to attract a man, who will take interest in her, introduce her to people so she can finally find that man that will provide her sustenance. Long-winded, I know, it does not make sense to me either what I just wrote! What am saying is that, we live above our means in order to find our means. Another example, it is more urgent to distribute flyers on swine-flu than to tackle the increasing rate of AIDS and Meningitis or Polio in Nigeria. It is more urgent to bury Babangida's wife than to find out if the president will be alive. It is difficult to even have a decent sense of urgency if we have such warped sense of priorities.

So as a result, our government is exactly the same. It lives above its means, it does not even produce means because this has become more difficult as its feeding mouths above its capacity. We have free education, free health, but then we can't afford it because we don't really pay tax and if we do, some scmuck steals it because he needs to live above his means and show off in some sick way. *breathless*

We can now only pray or act, there is no need for verbal criticism of our country anymore. Look at it at the moment- people are dying in a state and our priority is that a Hausa man must remain in power. We need to move past our ethnicity and religious bias for politics to be sane and for the economy to progress. We need to decide what's more important. Personally, the well-being of the Nigerian people is more important to me than that of an Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Ijaw or Kanuri man. All I want in life is to be able to live in a safe country. And safe as in I can rest assure that no one will look at me and say, 'fucking christian off with her head', or 'bastard muslim let's kill her, she's not worth much'. I am worth something, I am human and so are the people in Jos and the Niger-Delta- killing us won't make us a happier or more progressive nation.

Our lack of prioritizing and lack of a sense of urgency is killing us and we are watching it happen.

Revolt?REvolt??REVolt???REVO????REVOL?????REVOLT??????

Irrespective of my status of residence,it is possible for me to see the positives and negatives of a country I grew up in...I am stuck in traffic, I live in darkness and I have had to queue for fuel, I have even been subjected to not going to school because of strikes, I think I qualify as one who suffers the insecure state of my country.

And so when you do all this talking, who is listening exactly, fellow 'clown masses or the clown government'. Anywhich way no ones hears,clearly they don't care and your revolution will be futile... In military rule, who talked and lived it through. And upon all the talk, we got Obasanjo and a bunch of other military men, how was that progressive?We lie everyday about how we are now democratic therefore we deserve better, we are not. We are an oligarchy and that's all...

All I want to know, is will YOU be the revolutionary, will YOU DIE for YOUR cause, because let's face it, its not the talkers that die, its the doers. Will YOU do that?and will YOU take the jugdement of killing these clowns. That's why I say its easy to talk the talk, its harder to walk the walk and Nigeria is not at the point where talking the talk matters, its about walking infact jumping and the truth is, we as a people, see violence and we RUN, we KILL it because we are afraid(sensibly enough).

Sorry I am not a supporter of revolutions because its not the talkers or the privileged who suffer,it will be the masses you're fighting for who will. I support evolutions,no blood, just time consuming but eventually will happen. Your talk ain't gonna do much for an evolution especially when no one is listening and you are attacking!

Sorry about the epistle, but I am genuinely pissed off when Nigerians just quote out of theories that don't hold any water for our country. We are not a normal country contrary to popular belief therefore 'international relations' norms do not necessarily apply well to us.