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Wón ki, wón sa, Aare n bèrè wípé sé Ode l’ókú ni tàbí àgbè. There is this hardworking trader friend I have not seen since February only to see him yesterday down with a stroke. I got very emotional. How many have suffered these kinds of health challenges? How many have died of hunger and want?
We know the beginning and keyed into it with hope, but now, much as we wish to be optimistic, we are daily being tempted to be pessimistic. And the cacophony of it all is that there are no soothing words from the subordinates of the Ògá pátá pátá even if he’s too disconnected with us.
If a diabetic is to go on surgery, surgeons and other colleagues will first stabilize the sugar level. The same strategy ought to have been applied in the retooling of the country called Nigeria. Okun inú la fi ngbé tì’tá. “Eehn eehn(mild grin), no matter how you protest oh, subsidy must go!”, that was at the theoretical stage. It must have dawned on you Mr. President, that in full application, it has brought undesired consequences. A surgeon will dare not lose a practicing licence by going ahead to carry out surgery on a patient with an existing medical condition that must first be stabilized before surgery.
The sine qua non to subsidy removal should have been
1. Industrialization drives towards production for self sufficiency and against mostly consuming economy.
2. Massive infrastructural programs especially roads to agrarian communities.
3. Real time agricultural drive not the corruption laden fertilizer and seeds interventions.
4. Revolution in the security architecture of the country.
5.Revolution in the judicial system that bulwarks the rule of law and not the rule of selective punishment of the weak and the poor and a slap in the wrists of the locusts elite.
6. Of utmost importance is the profligacy and prodigality in all segments of governance. Avoidable recurrent expenditures should be ploughed into tangible capital expenditure.
On a final note, Mr. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the son of Iyaloja, Omo Olodo’de, hearken to cries of the poor, we are at our wit’s end. God help you.
-by Lanre Ajiboye.
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