Unchecked and unsolicited power is why democracy will continue to be a laughing stock in Africa, the inability to maintain due process whilst having the law affect even the lawmakers themselves has always been a problem. People who are favored by terrible systems may never want positive change to happen and they work hard to ensure it.
The failure in the Nigerian economic and financial structural setting is a representation of the political anatomy. For example, the system remains stagnant because bad policies are beneficial to a few people even if it's not to most of the populace. This means that there are people who are designated to make sure that failed systems remained failed.
It's simple: there's a ton of profit to be made from chaotic situations and there are people who create opportunity where there is no hope. For example, COVID was not all doom and gloom, some people's businesses grew because of it (COVID) and they had no control over this, but wanting COVID to continue just so a profitable business can continue flourishing at the detriment of others is purely evil.
But that's how the world works, most of the problems the world is facing are continuously being engineered to never have an end, because of the mad millions that are being generated from these issues.
While there are opportunities in fixing problems, people have become sophisticatedly evil to engineering problems, so they could easily provide solutions and create viability and value for themselves. In Nigeria for example, POS operatives and commercial bakers are the most valuable people in the country, because of their ability to provide fiat for people. Fiat is the most revered commodity in Nigeria at the moment, not even cars, gold, or real estate
This is unbelievably true
I was at the market some days ago and we heard someone saying they wish the system can remain like this so that they can continue selling money to people and making outrageous returns. They confessed that they've never made so much money in a long time than in the past three months and they wished the system can continue being chaotic, so they can keep making their mad millions at the detriment of everyone.
Every day I go to the market I see people suffering, trying to get access to their own hard-earned money, it's like working twice the effort of the singular value you're getting. But people are profiting from scarcity and chaos.
In reality, progress and sanity would benefit everyone in the long run, but since chaos brings more attractive benefits to only selected people, the latter is often preferred to the former
Nigerian politicians are benefiting from the disunity of Nigerians. People pay attention to politics rather than what will work for them and their families and politicians tap into this chaos. Now, this is why education and exposure are often abhorred by the elites and politicians.
Exposure and awareness change the narrative, however, this height is still a utopia, since over 50% population of the Nigerian Populace is still living in sheer ignorance and unable to spark revolutions that can bring massive change.
The constitution is not tailored towards accountability and enforcement of laws, however, the people who are supposed to be canvassing for this change are being blinded to the idea that they're not capable of change. For example, the elections conducted over two weeks ago cost about 450 billion naira to conduct, that's over a one billion USD, down the drain but they still failed woefully.
Now, these guys who were given this money are enjoying the benefit of a rotten system, if not, they'll all be in prison or court, giving accounts of how they spent that money. In reality, the fear of evolution ruins revolutions. We can never change a rotten system if some persons cannot sacrifice the benefit they're enjoying from such a system for the betterment of everyone.
I think this is mostly embedded in human nature
but the only way some sophisticated countries have truncated this is to choose to be advanced as people.
In most African states, power is seen as a birthday and hereditary, so systems continue for decades after decades without enough change to create revolutions that can liberate people in all sectors of life.
People are used to selling their power of choice, and when this is sold, they bargain or exchange the change that could happen to them for superficial gains
In some of these African countries, change isn't happening, because retrogression benefits the elites.
It's a losing game for people who are always at the receiving end of every bad thing that happens. It's an unending situation and not being able to flex one's financial capacity by affording what one truly need is a catastrophe, we're not far, from some of the apocalyptic features we see in movies, it makes me wonder, what the future of some African countries will be like, I'm sure Nigeria will be spearheading this futuristic state of redundancy.
Interested in some more of my works?
