Hitting the Street is Inevitable
Everywhere you go to from Lagos to Kano to Port-Harcourt etc. people are saying the same thing in Nigeria they are crying about the high cost of goods and services in the country. As at January rice was sold for NGN 45,000 and now It will surprise you to know that a 50kg bag of rice is NGN 68,000. A bag of Sugar was NGN 62,000 and now it NGN 75,000 the same thing for Fuel, Tomatoes, Cement etc. all increment was within a space of one month.
My First question is what would be the prices of these commodities in December?
Is the president trying to pass a message to the people. We are very good at adjusting and praying to God that already have heard us and bless our lands. The government don't seem to care. Just recently custom duty was increased from NGN 1300 a dollar to NGN 1400 to a dollar. The custom duty will drive increase in goods imported and it is the consumer that bears the cost.
When are we going to reach our Limit as Nigerians?
Savings worth nothing again especially when you convert it to dollar. Minimum wage cannot buy a bag of rice. Is it not time to hit the street and demand for better leadership and governance. We have three more years to go
Nobody is hitting any street, Nigerians are very docile, always adjusting to suffering. People do not hit the street when it was feasible to produce any positive result, is it now that the country have been polarized that people will hit the street? If you are hoping that there will be protest or revolution or just anything, you better wake up because that is not going to happen.
Anything anybody start now, they will first check where he comes from, his religion, his political affiliations and before they finish checking these things, opposition for whatever course he is pursuing will emerge and the same people he is fighting for will resist and frustrate him. What the ruling class will just do is to fund the opposition and the citizens will start fighting themselves while they unite at the top to continue enjoy the good of the land.
Another thing to know is that people have, true their religious believes, accepted poverty and suffering as normal. To them, the poorer you are, the holier because "it is easier for the camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven". Like I said before, the case of Nigeria is a helpless one, where you wan start from?