We compounded this unusual taste for foreign goods with lack of appreciation of the consequences of our economic shortsightedness.
Everybody wants to get a foreign degree most of which are not better in any form or shape than the Nigerian education. A country than would not accept degrees from many Asian and American Universities in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s became the contributor to economic well-being and sustenance of such universities in the year 2000.
The major fault of the government and I mean all governments in power in all these is that they are too sympathetic to wield the big stick.. Like the Yoruba will say “Omo ti a ko ko, no yio gbe ile ti a ko ta” literally meaning “It is the child that you are too sentimental to build that will sell the house that you have built.”
The Nigerian slogan that “Talk is cheap” is apt here. The Yoruba couched this in a more comic form by saying “It is easy to cook good vegetable with the mouth than to do it in real practice”. Even in its actions, the group that is accusing the government of high handedness is itself high handed, unscientific in its approach and somewhat undemocratic in its conduct. One wonders how this group will manage the country if it is handed over to it to manage.
If the EndSARS protest is not a lesson, what else can be? What manner of citizens will burn thousands of buses that are meant to provide transportation convenience, burn government offices, vandalise infrastructures that are erected to run their daily life smoothly, loot businesses of innocent people, maim bystanders, shoot policemen and dismember their bodies? And yet, continue to claim a right that the police attacked them? Is it not better if there is no government of any form at all, so...
Kudos to the government of the day for its general conduct of the crisis. There is advantage in all things in life. The protest of the last three days is novel in Nigeria. The policemen demonstrated maturity and finesse in the conduct of their job and also in the handling of the unruly situation. National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress , Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has said the nationwide protests against the reform agenda being implemented by the President Bola Tinubu administration should not be seen as a surprise.
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