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This post is in solidarity with Naijalines's blog campaign against the unnecessary and insensitive fuel subsidy removal. It still remains an irony and defies all human logic that a country blessed with so much natural resources especially oil still struggles to feed its citizens let alone provide them with affordable petroleum products. But then our dear Nigeria is a country at variance with all forms of human and natural justice.
I believe we all have a role to play and take responsibility for the future of our country. Change will never come our way unless we take action and as bloggers, our medium is a very powerful force to challenge the status quo. Like I said before in one of my previous posts, this year is a big year for Nigeria. How do we reconcile the fact Nigeria intends to spend over $3m to feed the President, an amount enough to pay the wages of hundreds of teachers, Nurses etc, who in my view do a better job. By the way, what does the country's president do with his wages? Isn't he supposed to use his wages to look after himself and his family like everyone else? Well take a look at the list below, if you haven't already, to see the full budget for the president's office and you realise that Nigerians have got to challenge and hold people entrusted with the public purse strings accountable.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing", Edmund Burke.
Doing nothing is no longer an option, please support this campaign if you haven't done so already.
PS: Give a book, save our future, is still on-going for those who missed my previous post. Please click on the link for full details.
Naija4life, thank you so much for your support in the Nigerian Bloggers Protest. May God continue to bless you abundantly. I find myself nodding to every single word in your post. In particular:
ReplyDelete"I believe we all have a role to play and take responsibility for the future of our country. Change will never come our way unless we take action and as bloggers, our medium is a very powerful force to challenge the status quo. Like I said before in one of my previous posts, this year is a big year for Nigeria. How do we reconcile the fact Nigeria intends to spend over $3m to feed the President, an amount enough to pay the wages of hundreds of teachers, Nurses etc, who in my view do a better job. By the way, what does the country's president do with his wages?"
And of course:
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing", Edmund Burke.
Every Nigerian should make it their priority to do something to challenge the status quo in Nigeria this year. Nigeria would only change if WE change our attitude of silence and act now.
Only God can solve our problems. Human government are not reliable.
ReplyDelete@Adura, May God bless you too. Like I said doing nothing is no longer an option otherwise history will be very unkind us.
ReplyDelete@Mazino, with all due respect, I don't believe God will come down to solve our problems if we cannot be bothered to do anything. We can continue hiding under the cover of waiting for God or we use the tools God has given us to change our collective destinies.
Subsidy removal is essentially a good thing. But oh my God! see the way they are implementing it. Atrocious! I can't even shout! If there's money they need right now there is so much they can do to get it - follow corrupt people who have chopped the money and reduce their expenses. I tire
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Hi Bro,
ReplyDeleteThe time has come for us to move on to part two of the Nigerian bloggers protest. It's basically supporting the 'Occupy Nigeria' campaign in Nigeria, in its entirety. It deals with subsidy removal as well as other wider issues of corruption, etc. I hope you can join us on this one also. Many thanks for your contribution to the campaign. Please help spread the word. God bless you.