ANALGESIC-INDUCED SILENCE;THE NIGERIAN CASE.

A sect of the Nigerian citizenry believe that it is bad to portray the country as bad as it is ,
believing it does more harm than good.For me,I strongly believe in the say-it-as-it-is principle.If every one wears a face mask ,how do we identify ones with facial rashes to treat?The fact that every nation has its own issues unique to them is not a prima fascie to believing that Corruption is part of our birth right in Nigeria.

To consider it,it is a shameful state.Our systems are falling,our policies are failing and Nigerians are hailing.The evil has been identified as corruption ,the evil doers are known but not identified ,those identified have not been brought to book.What do we say ofa farouk lawan(A member of the house of representative with a concrete evidence of receiving bribe) who is still making laws for you and I to obey.indeed this situation is a malignant one.

One of the most accepted myth about a typical Nigerian is that he/she is a docile person;that the Nigerian spirit is a tractable one and submits too easily to a manhandlers:that her passivity is even pathological.The late journalist ,Dele Giwa,once said Nigerians have been shocked beyond ''shockability''.It is believed that we have been denervated to a ridiculous zero-level where our sensitivity has been killed and our motor system now suffers a great depression because of the pathological passivity.We submit ourselves with no restrain to the assault of our rapist,taking turns and yet still asking for more as if there is something good about the semen of our spoilers.

To say Nigerians have been pushed to the proverbial wall would be redundant. Weve been driven to the border of the permissible; to the very edge of the cliff decribed. our present state.We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!”…. This „Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” It has been a tranquilizing thalidomide, relieving the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration. We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.

The easiest question to ask me is 'What is my own pain?'I would say it is not out of place to ask however its not new because i hear it everyday in discussions ,arguments and so on.To answer the question ...Could my pain have resulted from the fact thatI resist the daily dose of analgesic offered to most Nigerians .These analgesics are the bribes people receive or whatever means theyve been silenced through selfish attitudes or the tablet-sized meat they receive from the butcher .Ive not forgotten the question.i am just building the frame work to answer it.
A wealthy man driving home hits a man out of sheer wickedness.he decided to carry the poor man with broken bones home.Each morning,he gives him his daily meal and gives him painkillers but as for the broken bones he does nothing about it.The poor man thanks him each day for the pills.This wealthy man represents our politicians while the poor man represents Nigerians.What is my pain? The man who doesnt recognize that he is oppressed because of the pills.