Couple of things have been weighing on my mind this past couple of weeks, Elections are around the corner and for some reason the Insurgency in the north have increased hence the #IamBaga #PrayForNigeria Lets not forget the #BringBackOurGirls at this rate I highly doubt they would ever be brought back.
Nigeria is in a state of mass hysteria and nobody even realizes it. Thanks to the likes of Alicia Keys who sing about it and Madonna who posts about it. To be honest people in diaspora and foreigners understand how much of a problem Boko Haram is and we Nigerians don't even care. At least we are chilling in Lagos, Boko Haram no touch us and we don't care. The number of people that have died since the Boko Haram thing started even Federal Government don't have adequate figures. If you as a citizen chilling in the Southern part of the country is not bothered, then why will the president who has 519 million naira for kitchen budget, who probably doesn't realize we still have a problem with electricity in the country because he has light 24/7 in Aso Rock and whose children are safely hidden abroad care about the state of the North?. Yep that is the sad state of the country we live in.
I remember vividly only a couple of days back just a few days after over 2000 people are killed like chickens in Baga and Nigerian Twittersphere was only interested in talking about Buhari's Sperm and Buhari's daughter. I still cannot understand neither can I fathom nor relate with how easily distracted we are by our problems and the fact that they are not being solved. We would rather castigate Goodluck Ebele Jonathan rather than address the state of the nation. Its a shame especially with all the bulls*t in the media. Amnesty International has more documented facts about Boko Haram attacks than our own media houses. The only thing they care about is running political campaign ads and we the citizens only care about pretty daughters on social media. Take a look at what happened with Charlie Hebdo and how the terrorists responsible were captured and the world stood up for them. Can we say same of Nigeria? The world doesn't care because we don't care ourselves, we the citizens of this great nation Nigeria.
