Nigeria Marked Her 52 Years As An Independent Country. (Oct. 1st) Celebrating Failure And Disappointments.

Yesterday, Nigeria marked her 52 years as an Independent country (October 1st). Is there any reason or reasons for Nigeria to celebrate? Do we have any reason to cut cake in the guise of celebrating our independence? Do we celebrate to remember when Britain handed over a country which foundation was not properly laid? Do we suppose to pop Campaign to celebrate Nigeria at 52? Do we suppose to roll out our drums to beat in celebration of Nigeria?

Why do we celebrate? We celebrate for accomplishments. We celebrate when we have recorded some element of successes in our endeavors. Nobody celebrates failures. It is unheard of for a couple who have been married for 10 years without children to celebrate their marriage anniversary. Success has many relations while failure is an orphan. Nigeria has no reason to mark 52 years of independence with pomp and pageantry. There are many reasons we should not celebrate; rather we should be in a sober reflection because our nation is a state of flux. How can we celebrate when?

REASONS NOT TO CELEBRATE IT:

• There is no stability in power supply
• Our educational system is in total mess such that our youths cannot get admission without sorting out and the affluence sends their children to schools in Ghana and Benin Republic
• Our leaders sit by and watch part of our land (Bakassi) being ceded to Cameroon without a fight
• Our hospitals are in disarray, such that the wife of our President could be in German hospital
• Our roads are in dilapidated situation from west to east, north to south-south
• Our leaders make more money than Nigeria through corrupt practices
• We cannot produce our fuel for local consumption, no functional refineries 
• Boko haram are harassing everybody, bombing Christians and even asking our own President to turn to Islam or be forced out of office. 
• Kidnappings of Nigerians and foreigners have become the order of the day
• We cannot conduct free and fair election without killings
• Armed robbers have taken over the land
• There are no aircrafts to fly over Nigeria such that passengers have to queue up for flight tickets and some flight cancellations. We depend on foreign airlines.
• An average Nigerian cannot afford to feed 3 square meals a day

If you look at the above parameters, you will agree with me that there is no reason we should cut cakes as it was done here by the President and some of his guests yesterday. It shows that we are celebrating failure and disappointments. Nigeria is in total comatose. Our president can praise himself to the high heaven, but the truth is that we are living in the past glory, if we have ever had one before. Our so called leaders have destroyed this nation. Our founding fathers like Zik, Awo, Balewa, Belo, Okpara etc had a very good intention for this nation, but since the incursion of the military into politics, our leaders lost focus, vision and bravery to tackle the problems of this country. 

As it is now, we have nothing to celebrate. I have seen nothing happening in this country that could motivate one to celebrate our Independence. Those men and women born the same time Nigeria got independence but are yet to stand on their feet will think twice about the whole issue of celebrating with Nigeria, because the country has failed them. Those children of independence should be those who should be holding the Green White Green flag of Nigeria in both hands, but I can tell you that such group does not even want to be reminded of Nigeria.