In Nigeria The People Still Expect the Desired Change

The socio-economic fortunes of Nigeria continues the downward slide, despite the present administration’s repeated assurances that it would take steps to plug all visible and invisible leakages.
Truly, the bail out initiative of the Federal Government has gone a long way in enabling state governments to clear the backlog of salary arrears owed workers, however, governance has become epileptic in most states, as the states grapple with paucity of funds.
In the private sector, companies are having a field day exploiting helpless workers, who have no alternative, but to cope with their employers’ slave labour tendencies.
Some states have abolished free education, as infrastructure in schools deteriorate daily, with children increasingly developing dislike for education.
Interestingly, concerned Nigerians are already promoting devaluation of the Naira, as a way to accommodate the economic reality of the present times.
The Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) has ceaselessly lamented the ”unfair treatment of Nigerian workers” and the unrealistic minimum wage that has made workers ”to live in penury and suffer untold hardships”.
”On average virtually all aspect of Nigeria’s infrastructure are in deplorable condition. The country is characterized by bad road networks, constant power outage, lack of security, inadequate water supply, unacceptable health facilities and declining education system, failing communication networks and unstable economic growth”, the NLC noted.
Nigerians drift from one day to the other, unsure of what lies ahead.
For the Democratic Socialist Movement, President Muhammadu Buhari ”was voted to power, because he is seen not to be corrupt like other pro-capitalist politicians and that he would fight corruption.
”The overwhelming mass of the people have the mistaken belief, that corruption is the sole reason for Nigeria’s lack of infrastructure or development, with its attendant backwardness. The reality is that, we are where we are, because the capitalist system engenders massive exploitation, lack of transparency, secrecy in management of funds and monstrous bureaucracy and these are what makes corruption to thrive. But fundamentally, the lack of Democracy in the management of public funds sustains corruption, as a tiny clique of privileged capitalist politicians and bureaucrats loot big, leaving many in constant state of want, misery and poverty”, the Movement stated.
Indeed, gloomy faces of the people, abandoned projects and elusive government officials characterize a sizable number of states in the Federal Republic, as officials express impotent hopes of better days ahead.