Why should Nigeria keep happening to us?

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6 hr. ago

halfkobo

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Nigeria keeps happening to us, and we keep doing nothing about it.

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Just recently we lost a young lady, a woman who, against the advice of many, a Nigerian resident abroad, with a good job there, who believed in her country to come back and work here...and in a few minutes her life was lost to armed robbery. (Yes, whether she jumped or not, it's still a loss to armed robbery).

Yes, I blame the government and the fact that our police is inefficent. But one comment I see here frequently is 'Nigeria happened to her'. And quite frankly, I am getting tired of that comment...for reasons that you will soon see (No, it is not because tinubu is doing well, and as for Wike...hmm, that one is a thread on its own).

A young Nigerian woman was murdered in her home. Family home. She came back for a visit. Am sure you would be thinking it happened under tinubu...yet it happened under a PDP regime. (Keep cool, I would be coming to my point).

The point is, Nigeria keeps happening to us because governments forget that their main job is to raise enough money so that we can at least have world class decent services. Yet aftetr ten years of APC rule, (where tinubu played a large role in those ten years, irrespective of what his supporters want you to believe)...our budget for this year is half of what the UK spends on its police.

And our police budget ialone n 2019 was one tenth of what the NYPD budgeted for itself annually. One tenth of what the NYPD uses to police less than 30 million people...to police 200million people.

And we expect the police to do well on such scanty budgets...or on a national budget that is so low that when the corrupt people steal, we are left with less than rags on our bodies...?

I hear people shouting that removing corruption...which APC has failed to do, let's not lie...even under this government...would help. Yes, it would....but it still leaves us with a very scanty budget that cannot do much for policing.

Nigerians seem to have the idea that we deserve to live like the really oil rich nations. So, a nation earning revenue from less than 2 million bpd of crude that has to be shared equitably among 230 million people should be like Qatar that produces 1.9million bpd for less than 2 million people? Or Saudi that produces 10 million bpd for a population of less than 50 million people? Even if we eliminate corruption.

See, that is why we got to vote out APC. 10 years and still we have not even diversified the economy to a point where we should be earning enough to be financing a budget of 100 trillion naira or more self. But it involves hard choices...like cutting subsides and so forth...so the APC government chooses what will win elections rather than what would help the economy.

And if you think the oppositon would do differently, you are in for a shock.What do you think PDP did before APC came in?

I guess Nigeria is too poor to have a leadership that takes sane economic decsions because 'oppression'. So, let's keep on taking more loans, running poor budgets...and Nigeria will keep happening to us.