May 29: The Grumbling Grows Louder
- By solomon2day
- On 17/05/2021
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- In Solomon's Column
By May 29, 2021, the number of Those-in-Charge at both the Federal and State levels of Government shall be six years on the saddle, while others shall clock two years in their seats.
Interestingly, it is evident that the ruling class is yet to take positive steps to build a country hinged on equity, justice, and the fear of God.
Indeed, common sights in major cities in Nigeria include students, pupils, and those in the out-of-school category, hawking ''pure water'', kerosene, pepper/tomatoes, soap/detergents, and several other edibles, while the song on the mouths of everyone is titled,'' future leaders''.
The places to impart knowledge-Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary-are now breeding grounds for cultists, armed robbers, rapists, ritualists among others in the school uniforms for those in the Primary and Secondary schools.
The limitless strength of the devalued Naira has ensured that cronies of the government at all levels control the decision-making bodies of most trade unions in a bid to allow their paymasters to have their ways.
Not surprisingly, the singular factor that counts, presently, in the country's political culture is CASH.
The individuals who are opportune to have it in abundance treat others in the population with total contempt.
Those in-Charge, long before now spend their entire tenures, seeking to control the government and the political party structure, forgetting that the political party is not for a single individual.
However, the trend is for the party executive to run to a single individual whenever money is needed to run the party secretariat.
The implication that the dispensing point has the party in his pocket while the majority of the party members remain aggrieved and now grumble loudly for people to hear.
In Oyo State, Nigerians are not surprised that there are visible perforations of the walls of the St. Annes School fence that separates the Girls' school from the Olorunsogo, Molete community, and unregulated entry into the school through the perforations since Those-in-Charge prefer the reactionary approach to governance.
Similarly, hoodlums in the community have converted an abandoned building on the same street as the Redeemed Christian Church of God(RCCG) Potters House to a launchpad for crime and criminality, in connivance with the residents particularly those who reside in No. 5 and 8 Kehinde Aderibigbe street.