A Kilimanjaro high, Mississippi long, Atlantic deep, and a marathon ideological cum strategic tug of war between ultra conservative liberal capitalist ideologues and hyper radical advocates of socialist egalitarianism on how to eliminate or reborn Nigerian comatose, dysfunctional bastard capitalist political, socio-cultural, and economic order- unfortunately stalemated. The protagonists and antagonists had plains of concordances and valleys of discordances. The pro and anti system and actors were unanimous in their judgment that the socio-cultural, political and economic fruits of the system are scarce and not malnourish. Our shepherds were/are not committed and sincere in their service(s) of the flocks under their care.
Blackmailers of a bloody revolution akin to 1917 Bolsheviks, 1948 Peasants Revolution in China, 1959 Cuban revolution, 1978 Iranian Islamic revolution, or SWAPO, ZANU-PF, ANC, and MPLA liberation struggles rebuked our consistent reference to these struggles that crested a people’s victory over their oppressors. While they wore stone faces at our sense of history and references, they unconsciously forgot that all their western liberal political and social orders do not also germinate from Nigeria but were imported from the West. If Nigeria is not Iran, Cuba, USSR, and North Korea, is Nigeria United, Britain, and France-where Structural Adjustment Programme, privatization, commercialization, Austerity measures and removal of subsidies came from? This is purely a selective amnesia by this bunch of capitalist megaphones. One has never seen this quantum of deficit in logic and syllogism. If they were Aristotle’s student in Greek City State, he would have delayed their graduation for failing to grab elementary rudiments of his philosophy.
Let us reluctantly concord to their wishy-washy analogy that Nigeria is a distinct geo-polity, are we not facing the same oppression, abuses, bad system and actors like their pre-revolution societies? I do not also want to believe that these countries do not have their own differences, how did they overcome their problems and staged revolutions? Were leaders of those bloody revolutions angels or divinely chosen? Oppressed people must know that oppression is religious, ethnic, regional, and colour blind. It is like a whip in the road, which spared no one.
Ample time and space was given to the blood phobic crusaders of capitalism to unveil to us their species of change and the road(s) to ply. Their best was to say, we need ‘peaceful change,’ and kept rigmaroling round the phrase like an old Japanese gramophone of the late 40s and early 50s. At some juncture, these apparatchiks of peripheral liberal capitalist order lost initiative, turn-tail and run. And those with some iota of audacity pretended as if their pot of ink got dry. Their barns of ideas got bankrupted and flooded away by our rivers of superior facts and sincerity of purpose.
The system and its operators are in a quagmire, cross road, and tightly trapped between the deep blue sea and the terrible Lucifer. Reforms, committees and all Bretton woods prescriptions have been administered to salvage Nigerian political, economic and social project to no avail. Apart from the unfaithfulness of their missions as manifest on how policies are implemented, we do not have patriotic leaders with true capitalist mentality. The country with green-white-green flag is the only state that has experimented all the World Bank, IMF, Paris Club policies without success. That compelled the former dictator Gen. Ibrahim Babangida to make his famous statement ‘Nigerian economic problems have defiled all logic’. If a reputed crook known with ability of pushing a camel through the eye of a needle with maximum ease consciously made a true confession about a system he was benefiting from, what else is remaining than dismantling it by making a river of blood from those who deliberately bleeded the system to comma?
The situation is getting messier as those in authorities are getting crazier with the sweet win of power. It is said, power corrupt, but absolute power corrupt absolutely. Those who invented this iron law of oligarchy must come to Lord Lugards 1914 contraption (Nigeria) for further studies of how power was/ is grossly (mis)used. It is easier and cheaper killing the system and its corrupt actors than reforming it. The reformers and their parents are the same people that sunk us this deep the valley of backwardness. Can they play the Japanese game of hara-kiri? No.
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