WHO CARES?

Good People, GREAT Nation

WHO CARES?

The level of negligence in the Nigerian society is alarming!

Many may wonder what a blog title I have here. My blog took its title because a look around my country and the many issues therein, left unattended, gives me reasons to wonder “Who Cares.”

Who cares about the lives of ordinary Nigerians who struggle to meet up with three square meals daily (or even two – or one), right inside the Giant of Africa? Who cares about the pregnant young woman whose husband has just been laid off for the fault of another? Who cares about the child on the street with boiled groundnut on his head because “mama says so”? Who cares about the redundant commercial bike rider who has taken to drinking out of frustration? Who cares?

Who cares about the mother suffering from breast cancer in the other village? Who cares how many die in the interiors from drinking dirty water? Who cares about the child dying of hunger and thirst in that settlement so remote that its reflection on the Nigerian map is doubtful?  Who cares?

Who cares about the brother on the wheel chair who cannot gain access into the bank because of the complicated door system and flight of stairs which make no provision for him? Who cares about the hearing impaired adolescent finding it difficult to cope with the “space” between her and the other normal kids? Who cares about the intelligent blind child from that home too “rich” to afford the special school? Who cares?

Who cares about the road construction project that was awarded two years ago, sand-filled, tarred ‘at the entry’ – and even commissioned – but never completed? Who cares about the ones that were completed, but fraught with potholes, looking centuries-old after only two months of construction? Who cares about the numbers of lives lost on Nigerian highways due to careless driving, dilapidated roads and bridges, dead-but-moving vehicles plying the roads, etc.? Who cares?

Who cares about the commercial vehicles on the road that are in terrible shape and could lead to the gone-too-soon of the passengers on board? Who cares about government officials themselves who break the same laws they make and cannot be challenged by their own “boys”? (Imagine one the other day taking the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) lane and asking the officer on duty, Do you know who I am?) Who cares?

Who cares about the amounts (meant for national development) lost to private pockets via various invisible projects? Who cares about the bias in courts and the “ogas at the top” who are inconvictable? Who cares that “the more you steal, the less your penalty; and the less you steal the longer your sentence”? Who cares that the journalist “asking too many questions” is the next butcher-victim? Who cares?

Who cares? Who cares? Who?