We Forget Too Soon

Today I’m just gonna rant! It’s very easy to make noise, raise uproar when something happens, then what next??

We’ve had issues raised, events take place, and many things happen here in Nigeria that one would think such issues will be dealt with appropriately, but it seems once those issues leave the front pages of newspapers, they cease to matter.

Can we forget the case of #Aluu4, the four students who were brutally killed by a mob in Aluu, Rivers state? With the uproar it generated, you’d think by now that the perpetrators will be serving jail terms or even executed; but what has happened? Varying stories upon stories, and we have forgotten. Nobody asks what’s happening with the case. The journalists have forgotten, the matter seems to have died and grieving parents are left in mourning, without any form of closure.

Our leaders know this, that is why once there is any case of corruption, looting, or bribery against any of the very many dirty politicians we have here, they just sit tight and wait it out, because they know that with time, we will forget about the case and move on. They go scot free and the cycle continues. What happened with the NIS job scam? What happened to Farouk Lawan and the bribery saga? Haven’t they all moved on?

Just recently, we read about the illegal/selected recruitment that took place at the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Federal Inland Revenue Service; as usual, we made noise about it, then it fizzled out. Have the people employed been sacked? No. they’re still there, while the unemployed youths who do not have ‘powerful’ connections in this country are still job-hunting. Did those people submit forms at the Federal Civil Service Commission as required by law? Has any journalist bothered to investigate? See why things will continue to go the way they’re going?

Until we learn to hold people accountable for their actions, Nigeria will remain stuck and we will keep going around in circles. The perpetrators of evil in this country always count on our forgetfulness, because we do so easily. We have this attitude that if it doesn’t affect us personally, then we shouldn’t bother about it. What we fail to understand is that, anything that affects the country directly/indirectly affects us.

Rant over. Drops Mic. Back to work of infusing human trafficking issues into the curriculum of primary and secondary schools in Nigeria. Working with all these Professors and PhD holders has been very enlightening.

Enjoy your day. Hugs…