NIGERIA @ 61:  A LAND OF MILK AND HONEY     

NIGERIA @ 61:  A LAND OF MILK AND HONEY     

By: Balami Lazarus   

These words “A Land of Milk and Honey” remind me of my church Sunday school class lessons. Canaan was the promised land full of milk and honey; I used to imagine how her citizens are enjoying themselves with the abundant milk and honey everywhere in Canaan. I was envious, wishing I was there with them.     

Every country is a Canaan depending on her leaders and the people to make it possible.  At 61 years old Nigeria is still inadequate in provision of social amenities and worse of security. Nigeria is a complicated nation. A country where anything can be done because we lack properly defined objectives to embark on the project Nigeria with all our hearts.     This piece is therefore, a poetical expression left for readers to hook it to a figure of speech they deemed fit.     

I love Nigeria, my country , so much that I can give my personal life in her defence for the good things she has been doing for all of us for the past sixty-one years. My love for her goes beyond the freedom for individual citizens. Fundamental human rights that are there but questioned and you are caged.     

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My love for this country is in the right direction for fair and just in steering the affairs of the nation for sixty and one years. I greatly love and admire the ways we carry out our national responsibilities in hygienic passing through maggot- magu ways.   

 I love this large defined geographical estate where life is easy for her citizens and survival greater than the jungle. Live and let’s die. I applaud this country for the bountiful jobs and employment opportunities in both the public and private sectors since sixty and one years. Young able bodied men are no longer unemployed. Jobs are for your choice.   

 I also love Nigeria because the government is closer to the people caring for us. Enough palliative was given to all of us during the lock- down of Covid- !9. And the remaining for the ware houses kept in trust for those in need. I am so endeared to this country for ease in doing business with government Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) where paper work is attended to with the speed of light flowing freely till you are tired and worn out.     

My heart for this beautiful country for humble obedience to law and order in every ambit of our national life; Can be seen in hold- up or in traffic light stops.     I cannot stop loving my country Nigeria without appreciating our able policemen in the offices and on patrol, the road- blocks where naira has no business. The Charge Room full of fragrance, bail bond transactions; handshakes are exchanged in our sixty and one years of age.     

It would be very unkind of me if I refused to say thank you to our collective patriotic attitudes towards building the nation away from corruption yet we cloaked and lurked with her in the dark alley. I love our armed forces for their simplicity in self- aggrandizement and social snobbery. Espirite de- corps their gate passes for dehumanization and brutality long before now.     

I doff my hat for our educational system. Our tertiary institutions! Where you spill the beans and graduate. No room for sex trading to push up your grades. Do not open your legs (our girls) and no graduation and no degree, a pin lost in the desert. What a country?     

Balami,  a Publisher/ Columnist.    08036779290

NIGERIA @ 61:  A LAND OF MILK AND HONEY