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Nigeria: a Promising Nation Besieged by Hoodwinking Leaders explores the unfortunate exposure of the Nigerian State’s resources and promising future to the hoodwinking hands of its corrupt and unpatriotic leaders.
The outbreak of the novel and panoramic COVID-19 has exposed the ineptitude, incompetence and betrayal of hoodwinking leaders in Nigeria. It is no news that Covid-19 is a terrific subject of discussion from the lips of a lot of people, with no exclusion.
The inconvenience that keeps its momentum increasing is in nanoseconds, which plunge the whole world into a chasm of distress and death consciousness.
The diverse conspiracies that transverse the whole sky among the world power nations abruptly crumble the economy within a spurt of time, as well as lowered the shoulders of countries on which other nations would normally rely.
The plausibility that African nations would survive the pandemic was premised on the speculation and hypothesis that Coronavirus could not survive in the tropical climate, as opposed to the temperate climate of most African nations.
It was when cases of Coronavirus started being reported on the shores of Africa that the initial hypothesis was subjected to doubts.
The widespread assertion is that an outbreak of a public health problem in Africa would be catastrophic. Bill Gates predicted that it would claim at least 300,000 African lives.
He further argued that the overall health systems and the socio-political readiness of African nations to handle the effect of the pandemic were grossly inadequate.
Amidst this foretold doom, the giant of Africa, Nigeria responded with optimism, as it PRESENTED a good opportunity to the hoodwinkers to perpetuate their conscience looting.
Nigeria recorded her first COVID-19 case in Lagos State, which happens to be the case of an Italian citizen who worked in Nigeria and went back to the city of Milan, in his home country.
On the 25th of February, 2020, he returned to Lagos, Nigeria from Milan, Italy and brought along with him, the dreaded coronavirus. That sums up how the coronavirus first came to Nigeria.
This was eerily similar to how the Ebola virus visited our shores in 2014 when a Lawyer of Liberian-American descent, Patrick Oliver Sawyer got infected and unknowingly visited Nigeria.
Before the Italians eventually got cured, Nigeria recorded units of casualties, in numbers and boom! It escalates to tenths.
Nigeria: A Promising Nation Besieged By Hoodwinking Leaders
Lagos State was staggered, and shaken off her feet because doomsday seemed to have dawned on the sixth-largest urban centre in the world and her renowned economy.
Nigerian Billionaires, millionaires, banks and other interested institutions became shillyshally, tending to safeguard their businesses before being tilted by the horrific virus.
Billions of Naira were donated to the Federal government purse by well-meaning Nigerians.
By the 30th of March, 2020, Nigeria announced the pronouncement and execution of a lockdown policy in major cities of the country, to curb the spread of Covid-19, including Lagos, home to 20 million people.
It appears that the financial, psychological and emotional implications of this policy on the citizens were not well thought through.
However the government claimed to care for the citizens, but what’s the care given to a hen by saving her from the environmental danger to be starved to death in the cocoon? Death!
Afterwards, the Federal government announced the disbursement of N20,000 relief fund to every Nigerian with a verified BVN from the 1st of April, 2020.
The office of the Minister of Finance, Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed was tasked with the responsibility of overseeing the scheme.
The announcement was received with loud ovation across the various social media spaces, as Nigerians hoped for theirs, not knowing the government was crafty enough to propagate such Wiles of the highest pedestal, mainly to secure good ground and good publicity.
Despite the non-maturity of the announced disbursement scheme, the Honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, insisted on the materialization of the scheme.
It appears that the Honorable Minister is impervious to reality and the possibility of retribution.
Then the jocular Minister of Information announced that they spent 200 billion to dig graves for Nigerians. This news heading left a distasteful disgust in the seared minds of Nigerians. Some would even say jokingly that “perhaps it’s a mansion for each body”.
Nigeria has been a joke since the beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Diverse comics but heartbreaking wiles from the Federal Government ARE but to entertain the Masses with a cupful of regret and anguish.
Nigeria: A Promising Nation Besieged By Hoodwinking Leaders
A real fantasy storyline when it’s so easy for the Government of Nigeria to disburse to all Nigerians within just a few weeks when they are yet to finish the distribution of mosquito nets for a good 6 years.
Still, the spread of Covid-19 keeps raging.
Despite the announcement of money spent, the Honourable Minister of Finance, Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed granted an interview where she unveiled another gild of debatable fact, that she hasn’t approved any money, and no money has been coming to the ministry since her assumption to the office.
Implying that the billions donated have not been deposited into the purse of the Ministry.
Another ridiculous twist to the COVID-19 pandemic occurrence was the fire breakout of the dubbed Treasury House, where the office of the Accountant General of the Federation is located.
The dilemma left Nigerians in disdain and begs the question – why the burning of the AGF Office when the various elephantine donations from diverse organizations and individual Billionaires, and well-wishers have not been traced to the Finance Ministry’s Coffers? 700 billion for that matter!!!
The landmark of all, was the arrival of an 18-man team of Chinese doctors in Nigeria, to help Nigeria on the battlefield against Covid-19. However, Nigeria’s Minister of Health had earlier talked about the arrival during a press briefing in Abuja where he said:
“An 18-man team of Chinese Medical Experts including Doctors, Nurses and other Medical Advisers shall come along with the flight to assist us.”
It was on this vantage that Nigerians laid their unrest adrenaline and eagerly expected the wonderful Chinese Human Messiahs to perform the magic they did to cure all their COVID-19 patients.
Days passed by, but on April 8, 2020, a team of Chinese Medical Professionals arrived at Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Nigeria flying in medical equipment worth about 1.5 million US Dollars.
The Honourable Health Minister, Osagie Ehanire welcomed them warmly at the airport where he discussed many things about Nigeria’s relationship with China and the spread of the virus.
Following the normal public health procedure, they were placed on a 14-day quarantine before the bounce on their primary assignment. A month went by silently without any traces of the Chinese doctors.
This piqued and nudged some concerned Nigerians to ask the whereabouts of the doctors.
On the 14th of May,2020, the enraged Honourable Health Minister, Osagie Ehanire, after reporters had repeatedly punctured the Federal Government about the whereabouts of the Chinese, warned reporters not to question him of their whereabouts, and that they were not his guest or the Federal Government’s guest.
Also, he told the reporters, “I want to explain that first of all, I think not all of them are doctors and I heard that some of them are technicians but they are a staff of CCECC.”
Having heard the rigmarole he concocted, it’s crystal clear that Nigeria has not only failed as a country but her heritage has also been tainted and crumpled by a set of hoodwinkers.
It wouldn’t be farfetched to say that Nigeria is in deep shit, excuse my French. I doubt if God is interested in Nigeria’s case.
Nigeria: A Promising Nation Besieged By Hoodwinking Leaders
