By Calixthus Okoruwa
The elite of whom the media is only a subset are complicit.
Many elite are still grumbling that 91-year old Wole Soyinka has abandoned the trenches.
But we see injustice and do nothing. We see touts turning our country into a land of law and disorder and do nothing. A few days ago, touts led an entire family- husband, wife and children to perish in an avoidable accident in Abuja. And the elite hardly even noticed.
Our politicians in collusion with civil servants have completely destroyed the public school system which produced today’s elite. Yet we do nothing to hold them to account as they cruise around our country in their 60-SUV convoys and Rolls Royces. Instead we cough out steadily rising fees to keep our children in private schools.
One professor said many years ago that had Abacha decreed that all 30-year-old Nigerians be executed, Nigerians would have reacted in two ways: one group of 30-year olds would have rushed to the airports and border to escape Nigeria, while the other group would have rushed to high courts to make new Age affidavits. Are today’s elite in Nigeria any different? Aren’t we just as cowardly as we ever were?
Our media is complicit. True, but so are Nigeria’s elite. We’re lazy, cowardly and perpetually looking up to someone to save us. I saw a video of a group of people accosting Wike a few months ago. As citizens who felt wronged they had the right to question him. But as soon as Wike began to feign anger, and act like someone provoked the citizens capitulated, even resorting to begging the man. That is the kind of elite we have in Nigeria.
Take a look at a video of a public school in the same country where politicians and their appointees go around in Rolls Royces and fleets of SUVs👇
This is in the same country where government operatives move around in 60-SUV long convoys.
