The discovery of hoarded palliative materials during this #EndSARS protests across the nation only buttresses the fact that Nigeria is probably the undisputed champion of wickedness, silliness, pettiness and schizophrenic greed among the political class. It also justifies the well-held belief that Nigerian masses are the most patient and longest-suffering masses of any nation in the world.
Countries all over the world, including nations deemed to be poorer than Nigeria rolled out palliative programs that targeted all ranges of the citizenry, to help soften the pains associated with the pandemic lockdown. Trillions of Dollars were and are still being paid out to citizens, while some developing nations, have, for the past eight months distributed free food, from door to door, daily to its citizens.
But in Nigeria, the little palliatives that were shared by some politicians, they made a lot of show out of. They went with cameras and media crews that were more expensive than the materials they were sharing, just to advertise the poverty of their own people and the fact that they were given them pittance. This was not even the issue.
To imagine that a human being or some set of human beings that God has lifted to the position of political and economic leadership they have been lifted, could condescend to the pathetic level of hoarding food items procured, specifically, as palliative materials for the same people they made poor through their extortionate political leadership is shameful.
How does one sit down to think that a set of human beings could be this wicked? They hoarded these materials either to resell them or to use them to campaign for votes during elections. They don’t care about the hunger that millions of Nigerians have had to endure as a result of the lockdown associated with the pandemic, they do not care that some of these people they want to campaign to with these bags of rice may die out of hunger as a result of the pandemic.
These daft criminals steal our money, loot projects meant to benefit the people, deny us jobs, pay us pittance for the few jobs they manage to provide, yet, they and their children live in the loudest affluence, imaginable. Yet, they still steal food meant for the ordinary people. God will not punish them, we shall, when the time is ripe.
I have always known that our leaders lack empathy, that their wickedness is in demonic proportion, but hardly did I imagine that they could get this animalistic in their wickedness.
I have never been more ashamed or regretful of my Nigerianess than now.
There is palpable tension across the federation as angry civilians have been identifying, breaking and looting covid 19 palliatives with the government completely hopeless as to how to quell the situation
