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to bite by the system of capitalism without any philosophic program to resolve the compounded contradiction.
This
is to further continue to bull and point fingers harder at the faces of APC,
PDP, and all bourgeois political parties responsible to the growing crisis
killing the economy that they are all complete failure. The APC and PDP were wolves
eating the goats in the field of plenty. They are the creator of what haunt us
today because of the system of profit which to them is primary before providing
social amenities just like in what Jakande government did in the second
Republic through State intervention.
But
what we have seen in the two years of this regime under the APC government in
the palm of Buhari/Osibanjo administration, who called themselves changers to
break the chain of poverty, is to continue from where the former looters under
Jonathan administration has stop as reality reveals. They haven’t in any way
implement working class pro-mass policies to really effect changes they bribed Nigerians in the 2015 general election
that became a street talk. As far the APC, PDP and all looters parties are in
government continue to run the philosophy of capitalism. Things will get worst
and life to remain miserable for the poor class.
As
it is currently seen in the country, the rise of youth restiveness haunts people
with fear because of the corrupt capitalist politicians that have held the
progress of this country down like prisoners. Among others, the unemployment
crisis is one colossal failure both the PDP, APC federal and state government
can’t solve as things stand. However, some of these youths (boys and girls) who
engages into social crime are mostly dropout from public and private schools in
the poor ghetto communities, whose parents can’t be able or afford to pay and provide
their immediate needs.
Because
of the social experience that drinks from the cup of social reality, many of
these parents who are poor market men and women, unpaid pensioners owed by both
Federal and States government for more than five years and six months, the unpaid
minimum wage of N18, 000: 00 including jobless parents felt the Buhari government
is wrapping Nigeria with the blanket theme of barbarism as far they are concern
judging from the inability of the bourgeois government to implement any
pro-mass reform program base on nationalizing the commanding height of the
economy not for profit as usual.
The
2017 budget of Nigeria totaling the sum of N7.298trillion where education,
health, transport were N398.01, N252.87, N262 billions respectively confirm
that the APC government is a total failure to the Nigerian masses. That doesn’t
have the growing gargantuan crisis at heart as the budget reflects where
Capital Expenditure of N2.24trillion even when is 30% higher compare to 2016, still
weeps bitterly under the nift anus of how bourgeois politicians have now and then
ruin the country. This shows that the APC Buhari/Osibanjo government circle
with policies of privatization and deregulation drives the country into further
deeper crisis eating raw the poor people.
Privatization
and commercialization should be held responsible for whatever is going on not
the Nigerian poor working class families and the rise of youth restiveness
currently witness in the Nigeria; as some bourgeois theoretician tries persuade
us into stoicism for us to have sympathy for the government that the Buhari/Osibanjo
APC failure government inherited this economic
recession. This for reality is a colossal lie that has broken itself with
contradiction as we have seen the inevitability of the APC capitalist oriented
party finds it hardly to fight the so-called corruption they claim to do.
That
is why the need to nationalize the commanding height of the economy under
workers democratic control and management including the poor masses is not out
of place to challenge the system of inequality breeding somnambulism
subsistence. The youth restiveness is not also unconnected to the provision of
social amenities being in place by the government to curb the psychological collapse
of the human mind left in the conundrum of destitution.
According
to a recent publication from New Telegraph on Wednesday January 23, 2017
reported a version of the Youth Restiveness that is growing, linking it to
gangster group like the One Million Boys and how it emerged, the Indomie Boys
etc in the various part of Lagos. The report further said according to a quoted
passage in it. “The main problem is unemployment and poverty in the land is one
of the major reasons youths are being lured into these groups. Anyone who isn’t
jobless (or acquired the necessary free quality public education government
should have provide) wouldn’t fall prey to these rascals”.
It
is just like what Awolowo the then leader of the Action Group in the First
Republic said. “When you give a man a hole to dig for twenty years and you are
consistent paying the wage. That man will never stop digging. But the moment
you take the digging away from him. He takes back to social crime”. This is the
exact nature of what the today’s Federal and State government of APC, PDP have
created in our society, failing to implement pro-mass policies that will
improve the poor living condition. The ideology of capitalism has created.
Like
in Ajegunle, the rise of youth restiveness is another episode among other States
in the federation where bourgeois politicians run draconian policies have
rolled out through failure of providing social package for the mass. Like
between October to December, 2016 these restless youths between the ages of 16
to 20 belonging to different groups like Campus Boys, Shofori Boys etc. move in
their hundreds to embark on community clash with other group. For some of them
it is an avenue to adventure into stealing, destroying petty properties,
injuring each other etc. that people in the neighbourhood have to run for
hiding.
And
because of the growing rate of poverty that is more than 70% in many working
class families living under the unpaid minimum wage of N18, 000, about thirty
States government have refused to pay and shifted the budget for business. The
numbers of youth on daily basis in social crime and unrest increase every day. In
every week, there is every possibility that two or three days hardly goes by
without being end up with these teenage boys embarking in collision in the
community. This has being the consequential feature of what capitalist policies
have created. The worst of this is that a lot of these boys that stroll in the
street in group without job, adequate funded education and better living
condition government should have provided erupt into something else.
While
this is a notable scene among hundreds going on in other States in Nigeria that
has evolve in poor working class communities where youth restiveness is rapidly
growing because of unemployment, lack of proper funded public education, better
living condition, creation of recreational centres, provision of free
acquisition skill centres etc. Both the Buhari and Ambode led APC government and
its crook business tycoons might want to hiss itself outside the pointing
fingers directed to them.
But
from the tune of reality and class differences created by neo-colonialism and
neo-liberalism respectively down to the throat of economic hardship people are
going through in addition to the tonnage of poverty. Its confirms capitalism
and all business parties are failures; and unable to resolve the economic
challenges faced by people, unless there is a scientific socialist
transformation of society things will continue to get terribly.
An
example to hammer the head of APC Buhari Federal and Ambode State government
are the budget for education in 2017 that is 7% and 5% respectively are far
below the UNESCO standard of 26% budgetary allocation for developing country
like ours. It is not even enough to provide all the necessary quality education
needed in the country, which hugely is what is responsible to the numbers of youths
dropout from school that later recruited themselves into destitute groups in
the ghetto poor class communities.
This for itself further confirms that the APC Buhari/Osibanjo
led chain philosophy and other bourgeois politicians and syndicate in
government are incapable to provide the so-called change as its 2017 budget said: “We will
CHANGE our habits and we will CHANGE Nigeria” claim to offer Nigerians. Ultimately, if youth restiveness will have new
face entirely expected by Nigerians, the need of government having pro-mass
oriented program and using public resources to provide basic social welfare for
the poor class is un-debatable.
With
the boost of the 2017 budget where bench mark for crude oil is US$42.5 per
barrel and to be sold in world oil market at the rate of US$58 and above as the
market decides in capitalist economy; nothing practically should be expected by
the poor working mass from this regime. What will befall is more of this social
unrest seriously hitting young people right now embarking into horrible means
to survive. However, in the coming period the rate of this social unrest and
youth restiveness will get sharper to cut us. In fact, people living in fear
currently will be redoubling if the economy hardship continues as it is
currently design.
Perhaps,
a sharp comparison needs be drawn to slap the mouth of the APC, PDP politicians
toasting the celebration of crude oil price jumping from US$20 per barrel to US$58
per barrel currently; and yet the revenue of it will finally end in their bank
account. That what the Jakande UPN government in the second republic did with
public resources is triple to what today’s pro-capitalist politicians can’t do
because program oriented towards the
poor class demands become the determinant of a better government.
Even
though the Jakande regime in Lagos State in 1979 to 83 was never a socialist in
nature yet it was able through a pro-mass radical program at least reduce the rate
of poverty to a measurable ratio. Hundreds of free funded qualitative public primary
and secondary classrooms and schools were built equipped with adequate
facilities including Lagos State University. Employment was created with good
living condition; housing, roads, etc were all put in place under the Jakande
UPN government.
This
is to show in scientific socialism that public resources under the democratic
control and management of the means of production by workers and the poor class
where elected officers must be subject
to recall not what later took place in the Soviet Union by the Stalinist
Bureaucracy and machinery years after the revolution; failing to understand the
benefit of the 1917 Russian socialist revolution, will adequately used public resources
to totally eradicate the growing nifty rate of poverty leading to barbarism
under capitalism.
By
FIDEL
DAVYNOVICH
DSM
AJEGUNLE REPORTER
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