Dear new Nigerian leaders,
Let it be known, that we know the recent fight in the floor of the national assembly is not the first one since the beginning of democracy. It has happened before and it's clearly not in the interest of the masses but for your selfish interest. Your ultimate concern is robbing and fleeching our treasury to enrich yourselves. You negotiate away the future of our unsuspecting youths; share our collective heritage among yourselves while you distract us with unnecessary drama.
Our being silent doesn't mean we are unmindful of how things are being done. In a gradual process, we will say things the way they are. We know how four times a year, each of the 360 members of House of Representatives receive about #55million as Constituency Allowance and how more than #65million is being given to each member of the 109 senators and how nothing can be shown for it in constituencies being represented by these legislators.
The politics behind assigning our oil blocks among the cabals alone will shock a typical Nigerian commoner if he hears how much millions of Naira these selfish few Nigerians make per day from the deal. The worst tragedy is to suffer amidst plenty. We have oil, yet we over-pay for it. Even when we are ready to buy, another group will connive to hoard it in order to make us pay more, yet you call yourselves our leaders and legislators.
We know how they live in palaces and move around in exotic cars with security guards. Their children are provided with everything they can think of including access to best education in best schools home and abroad. Governors now make their children and family members their Special Advisers just like Kabiru Aregbesola receives 'allocations' for being 'first son' of Osun State. Their children simply never experienced hunger all their lives. This in same nation where two siblings died of hunger same day in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria, which is one of several other cases.
Let them know that we are aware they know there are people who can't afford three square meals in a day; they see destitute everyday and people who died because of their inability to settle their medical bills. With all these situations, how then can you publicly deny there is no endemic poverty in the land? Either you acknowledge it or not, your actions and inactions have succeded in turning the masses into slaves by continuing to plunge them into the bottomless pit of poverty and mental malnutrition.
Be assured this intimidation will end one day, the voices of the people will sound soo loud that the decibels will break ear drums. The blood of the innocent people who died as a result of your negligence will rise up with fury for vengeance. The empire of the oppressors will crumble before their own very eyes and power will truly return to the people. The time is near.
Perhaps you think, it's impossible? Alright listen to this, about 800 years ago, in Britain, the famous King John of England was forced to sign the Magna Carta bill in 1215 and by signing the document, it means he has agreed to do his duty as King of England, upholding the law and running a fair government. There at The Runnymede, on the banks of the River Thames by a little group of men who could sacrifice anything for freedon, he was offerred two options: to sign the bills or lose his heads and he went for the best option; he chose to live. Today, the Magna Carta is considered one of the most important documents in the history of democracy and that single act by the barons paved way to our rights, our human rights, rule of law, due process, Habeas Corpus, freedom and liberties, fair hearing and all of what we take for granted today.
To all our selfish leaders, the day of reckoning is here. On that day, your excesses, abuse of office and reckless financial profligacy will trigger actions from the masses that will eventually make governors' salaries equate with that of any state civil servant and legislative jobs becoming part-time with no salaries but only seating allowances for our senators and House of Representatives' members.
Nigerian masses will demonstrate to you they can no longer be slaves to your rubbish by marching on to Abuja to occupy the entire power house
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