After seeing how the present "democratic" government is heartlessly "bleeding" our dear Nigeria, I can't help but cry blood deep inside me like a child  whose wealthy parents have willfully neglected because they are greedy and unloving.  Why are we, Nigerians, so unfortunate that the same class of wicked elite who ruined not only our future but also that of our many generation yet to come, if change doesn't come, are still in power or preparing for a come back. Imagine IBB, Buhari and the likes talking of a come back. As far as Nigeria is concerned, if any of these "heartless bleeders" contest an election, the probability of them coming back is almost one.

Just like in the past  "Abacha like" regimes, Nigerians today cannot mention a significant dividend of the present "democratic experiment", except for the recent approval of the licenses of the wireless telecommunication firms like GSM etc., which made the use of cell phones popular among Nigerians.

What we need is food on our tables, not just food, but nutritious food. We need jobs, security, and the other basic necessities of life. The inequality in Nigeria is too wide to imagine, a land overflowing with milk and honey, with very small fragmental class of the society enjoying the overflow, while the remaining unimaginable majority live far below the line of abject poverty, a situation where man with all his/her dignity is  brought lower than an animal. Nigeria is  the only country where you can find both the poorest among the poorest of the poor and the very rich even on an international standard. Yet we see our not all "honorable" politicians making promises of better things to come. There should be a basis for hope, hope without a basis  is a hopeless hope. On what can we base our seemingly forlorn hope. Is it on our resources, be it human and natural, or on our wicked political leaders?

Having our hope on the latter, is not very reasonable because no good can come out of it if there is no good management of those resources, especially the natural ones. As for the human resources, we need them to manage our natural resources. But let us pause and think for a minute. Nigeria has lost, is losing, and if change doesn't come, will keep loosing her precious human resources to the greedy western nations that are already enjoying the dividends of the well directed greed that their forefathers call patriotism. For the few years that I have lived in north America I have come to see that there is nothing so special about the prosperity of the so called developed nations. Their selfishness was, and is still very well directed. This selfishness is not a personal one, it is national. Some call it patriotism.

If we look back at history, we should have no doubt in our minds that our colonial masters explored and exploited our nation for their own personal good and greatly for the good of their home country.  That greedy spirit was inherited from our colonial masters by our past and present day politicians, but were misdirected to be absolutely personal greed, which has resulted in an unspeakably desperate situation for the majority of unfortunate Nigerians, who are now roaming the streets of our father land in search of any jobs, while the "fortunate ones" whose ambition was to leave the hopelessness and frustrations in our land are on their way risking their lives through the desert, seas, oceans, rivers, bushes, jungles, wilderness, hills and mountains, to actualize their dreams of living in lands where the leaders' greed is well directed.

Many of our people are dying, many of them being killed, maimed or died of natural cause as a result of the unthinkable situations they found themselves. Some may ask "why don't they go back home when they find themselves in such dangerous situations?" They prefer to die in the course of actualizing their dreams instead of living in their country where some animals live better than them. The ones that are able to make it through to the land of promise, send for their friends and even brothers and sisters to come through the same route they took, enlisting the possible dangers, even though they know it could mean the end of their loved one. With all these dangers in mind these loved ones with little or no alternative sometimes choose to embark on the same dangerous adventure all in a desperate effort to elude the political and economic wickedness of our "honorable" leaders. How can one have hope, when daily the nation is loosing her youths who are the foundation of her future?  

How can we have hope, when our best brains are leaving the shores of our beloved country for the west where they contribute tremendously to the betterment of these nations and her citizenry? Think about it; our politicians, how many of them have their kids schooling in Nigerian universities? Virtually all are in the universities of the western nations, either to come back and join in the "management" of the nation's resources or remain in these countries where they contribute so much like our best brains who have left our beloved land for greener pastures because they have lost faith like me in our land overflowing with milk and honey. Imagine our politicians today getting millions of naira for furniture allowance, imagine the stories making the news now that the president has set aside 500 million Naira, with an Eastern senator to counter the impeachment moves against him, how about the misappropriation of funds leveled against Mr. president as part of the decision by the legislative to impeach him.

Nigerians have made great strides in all human endeavors, both in the sciences and in arts. Think about the likes of Philip Emegwali, called the "Bill Gates of Africa" by the former US president Clinton as a result of the great discoveries he made in the computer field. There is also Engr. Atamo of Ogidi, the metallurgical engineer who made some discoveries in his field that have helped in enhancing the smooth flying of aircrafts today. This is just a few of the many brains that Nigeria has lost as a result of the unconducive environment created by our "honorable" leaders. Philip was a school drop out before coming to America, where he started all over again, if he had believed in our beloved country, where would he have been today. There are millions of genius in our country today, who are either planning to leave the nation, apart from the ones she had lost so far, or are just there but never had the opportunity to utilize their talents and abilities because we have "honorable" leaders who are "patriotic". Let all the Nigerians abroad come home with all their wealth and experience, if not all but at least a substantial number of us, and with the government that is concerned about the good of the nation and see if we will not see change in the shortest time possible.

Unfortunately, that is a utopian dream. Such a scenerio is unlikely to materialize until the end of time. If change does not occur, we need God to rescue us. But, before then, I can't help but CRY for my fatherland.