By Sonnie Ekwowusi
Na wa o. Are we doomed?. Who will save Nigeria?
Yesterday I arrived London with some Nigerian legislators.
Since our arrival to London, I have steadily noticed that the number of Nigerian job seekers in London has increased so that many of them are suffering from acute unemployment.
For example, this morning I ran into a Nigerian job scouter. He arrived in London about 6 months ago and from that time till now, the poor fellow has been searching for a job. He looked underfed. He looked sad. He was yawning in front of me.
I felt pity for him. I called a Nigerian gainfully employed and pleaded with him to assist this unemployed young man from Imo State.
Sad.
If Nigeria were livable, so many unemployed young Nigerians would not be roaming the streets of London in search of elusive jobs.
We have a government that drives its citizens mad. We have a government that cares not a hoot about the welfare of its citizens, which is the raison d’être of government.
So many frustrated young Nigerians abroad seeking to eke out a simple living. Many are being humiliated abroad. Others have been convicted and are serving various prison sentences abroad.
I won’t mention teenage Nigerian girls forced into prostitution in Benin Republic, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Italy and so forth. We have lost our being. We have lost our place of pride in the comity of nations. Are we doomed?
A few years ago, I was in Ivory Coast. The Nigerian Ambassador to Ivory Coast, or Côte d’Ivoire at that time, was lamenting that her main assignment since she became Ambassador was to repatriate teenage Nigerian girls forced into prostitution in Côte d’Ivoire
This is painful. It calls for penance
When will Nigeria rise?
Sonnie Ekwowusi
