Joblessness
is not what millions of people want or wish for when they are capable of
offering their ability to ensure the economy develops such that government can
People wish good things in life. People
want to see life working for them in whichever way they can afford as far it is
going to improve their standard of living. But the fact that opens the vamp of
social contradiction is that, people on daily basis can’t access themselves to
these things. They crawl to even have the nothing left in the mold by the
government policies.
The everyday people want to believe
life isn’t green card they should
perish like flea or be hospitalising for, before getting life of comfort
whenever the need arises. This has been the thinking of every average poor person
who thinks
comfort should be life. As the saying goes: nobody in her/his right senses will say roaches taste delicious when
haven’t eaten crayfish spice with spinach.
Good life shouldn’t be privilege from
the people but a right that government mustn’t fail to provide abundantly and
adequately without hold back. Water, education,
electricity, food, transport, housing, employment etc should be made available
by the bosses in government not necessarily contesting it with policy that serve
private pocket.
All over the globe, people from poor
background complain the same thing due to the way government in different countries
and continents manage public resources. Because of this economic hardship,
people have to placard, agitate and demonstrate; sometimes strike over the failure
and negligence of government to provide their basic need, which it is the right
of the deprived people.
Despite this, in many part of the
world it is like a tradition for the poor to rise as collective undermining
belief, culture and language in flame, to say enough is enough for vultures in
power and government, using politics to victimise them that they won’t accept
it any more. The demands of people are not delusional but necessity to have
without any cost attached to it.
However, due to the way politicians from
pro-business parties background run politics and government both in Europe,
America and neo-colonial backward nations and countries for the benefit of
empowering private monopoly and investment. Millions of people have to die in
poverty. At least it was reported more than 64% per cent of Nigerians live
below poverty-line (Daily Post, 5 September, 2017).
It is given that capitalist
politicians will usually put forward excuses about the somnambulism of the
economy. Perhaps, it is a necessity for people to have better life whether the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) in figure is excellent or not; whether there is economic
retrogression or not as it is currently occurring in Nigeria.
People will have to eat, drink, and enjoy basic amenities
like clean water, regular power supply, quality education, provision of
adequate employment, health, living wage (not peanut) etc to be happy. Fundamentally,
the opposite is attack on social welfare as daily World News report like in Britain,
US, France etc that unleash canon policies of privatisation killing the poor.
In the publication, Vanguard News of
27 June, 2017 said “for instance, in Lagos, about 90 per
cent of the residents do not have daily access to clean and safe water”. And 63
million Nigerians don’t have access to clean water and go at length to surf for
drinking water. Also, 130, 000 children died annually because of infected
water.
Economic analysts
on their part try to assure people that the economy will kick up undermining
the failure of the Buhari regime wearing the armour of capitalism. And with the
current reality and the status quo of poverty, living condition for people gets
harder by the day. Cost of living is beyond poor working families that live on
the verge of poverty.
Because of the
height of poverty and from social observation in Nigeria that in every 10
working class families most especially in the destitute communities, 7 hardly
eat two nutritious meals for the day. People live from dirt to mouth. Hunger
and food crisis is a glaring fact of the growth of poverty in the neo-liberal
free market economy of Nigeria.
People on daily basis
complain about the failure of this administration and the calamity brought on
them. Poverty is on the rise. Cost of living is rocket launch attached to the
hyper-inflation that runs 1000% per cent increment in virtually all items. Whichever
way some stock market economists or analyst will want to analysize the sunken
economy of Nigeria that isn’t more than 0.17% GDP as possibly something that
can be reformed.
And despite the excuses
offered, the Buhari government has failed woefully in the past two years of the
administration. Nothing practically has happened. Poverty continues to be on
the rise. Unemployment crisis is boiling for explosion. And with the two years left
for Nigerians to live through lumbago and lugubrious of its time under this
failed government; nothing fundamental will definitely change for the poor
average person despite what Buharites pretend to offer to swaying people.
Instead, the crisis
will continue to get worse and terrible for people. Psychological trauma on
daily basis will increase because of poverty. In fact, it will both
psychologically and socially tear people apart, as it does occur in most
communities in Nigeria because of the capitalist politicians, parliamentarians’
inability to address social crisis with social welfare to improve living
condition with public resources.
And within the
sphere of this regime, the everyday people bitterly pour out grief mind over
the way the economy is being hospitalized in the surgeon theatre of capitalist
policies. For the everyday people living in poverty, corruption which Buhari
government claims to be fighting is like shadow inside darkness. It hasn’t changed
anything for the poor. What it has done is to sustain itself with the face of
being genuine. Whereas, it is just to buy applause of Nigerians that the
government is caring and reputable.
For the average
person anger with the way the economy falters every day. Any government that
can’t resolve the issues of food, shelter, job creation etc as primary
responsibility isn’t worthy to manage public resources. This is as simple
reading a novel. It is only a socialist government with mass oriented plan
program that can guarantee basic necessities of life for the everyday people.
By
Fidel Davynovich
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