By Adamu Hamza Marree Talum
Democracy is commonly and universally defined as the Government
of the people by the people and also for the people. I think this definition
has been otherwise perceived in my dear country, Nigeria. Instead of it to be monolaterally
concieved as the government of the people but unfortunately, it has succinctly deciphered
as the Government of bourgeois by the same bourgeois and also for the same
elites. I is very unentertained if I am misinterpreted in this realistic article
for my observation is reality. If anybody looks at democracy in Nigeria as the Government
of the people by the people and also for the people, such a person subjects the
country into only academic debate.
Supposed, people should be given immense priority in the governing
conduct of the country if truly, we are practicing real democracy as we
inherited it from the western world.
Contrary, the Government
is doing what it seems is important for itself while masses are left in their
enshrined dreams of better tomorrow. With the woeful skyrocketing of petrol
price that deadly lives the overwhelming Nigerians in a sorroful tears, the Government
should have considered that they are running democracy in a torturous ways that
places all Nigerians in the state of quagmire.
The country's masses frown at the removal of fuel subsidy while
it was mandatorily placed on them by its
government that it hopefully works hard to bring into power, to the presidency and
allies, upon this wallow that they believe in the standard democracy as the Government
of the people by the people and also for the people. If truly the Government
has its people in the heart, they would have relinquished their claims and restore
the subsidy for the benefits and easy life of its citizenries. As the Government
favorably looks at the elites, it shuns against the global perspective of the Democracy
as the Government of the people by the people and also for the people when it resolves
to unleashing brutality and meyhem to
its citizenries.
Relatively, if we take a look at the dimensions our dear country
has taken, actually it will be unbearable for average Nigerians at the social
parapets to cope with such catatonic squalor and quandary. Now, masses reduced
to eating leaves as food and every year the price of commodities are shooting
to unbearable level as currently a measure of grain is being added with more
than one thousand naira every year. For instance, last year a measure of maize
was sold out at the rate of #1700. At a point, many Nigerans suffered unaccountable hunger.
This year, people bought a measure of the same maize at #2800. If one compares the
price for this year to the previous year, one will believe me that there is an
increase of #1100 per measure.
The way things are getting worse, we may unfortunately buy a
measure at #3500 next year. For those that are unemployed and have no tengible
businesses, it will be unrealistic for them to survive it next year. Besides,
no drastic measure is taken to curtail the skyrocketing of food in the side of
the Government. This simple analysis is applicable to all food produce being
sold out today.
Strictly speaking, something should be done to avert the
terrible future cataclysm before things go out of hand. Just a moment a liter
of petrol is increased to #1030 at NNPC filling stations while private filling
stations are somehow selling a liter of petrol at #1200 and above. Where one
paid #500 as transport fair has now proliferated to two fold. Many semi-earning
Nigerians have sold out their vehicles to cope with the current bubonic social
propensities.
My wonder was the Presidency hasn't looked at the danger
ahead and have forgotten that they will one day come back to the same Nigerans
and canvass votes for annexation of his second tenure. It high time government looked into this with sympathy.
These nightmarish experiences of overwhelming Nigerians acrimoniously
made me question our perceptions of democracy in Nigeria. Beside , the Government
is not even ready to look into a common man's plights. Certainly, we brought
this Government into power but we are now laughing with the wrong side of our
mouths.
My advice for the presidency is to please pity Nigerians and
look for other ways to ease the hardship in the country and if any measure is
taken, I want to assure the people in the Government that their gesture doesn't
reach the populated Nigerans.
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