Published 2nd Jul, 2022

By E. D. Adegoke

Certainly, people often argue that the government cannot provide for everyone. That’s a lie! The truth is that the state has the responsibility to provide everybody at working age with a job according to their ability and aptitude.

A state has the necessary responsibility to feed, clothe and house all the people. And the deep truth is that nature has provided our country with the resources, lots of hidden money and materials, which, if used properly, can make all of us live a contented life.

This is an era when governments all over the world are trying to use all the means at their disposal to alleviate the common people’s problems. What are we waiting for in our country? We should have learned enough lessons from the experiences of other nations that no government can be successful if it treats its poor masses with contempt.

My dear countrymen and women, you can now see clearly that no prayers by fake prophets, and no calls for charity or a rigid constitution can stop our present terrible difficult economic situation.

When we all work very well and create sufficient wealth, we must also think of a proper way for radical redistribution of our wealth.

As things are now, the situation of sharing the national cake is grossly unfair. Who does not know that 80% of our people earn no salary at all? Who does not know that majority of the people of this country live on a few farm crops they can sell from their poor farms?

Who does not know that majority of the people in the cities and towns have not enough money to feed themselves or buy other necessities of life? And who does not know that millions of our young and healthy people roam about hunting for non-existing jobs or go about begging?

Having said that many are now hoodlums, who does not know that prices of commodities, foodstuffs and clothes are shooting up at incredible rates everyday? And millions of our youths are deriving so much joy and pride in fraudulent activities, making Nigeria the most rated cybercrime country in the world.

It is my serious submission that our country needs proper overhauling from all areas.

Firstly, we need a stable political life and the only way to get it is to stop money politics. Our politicians who buy us with money to get elected will never work for our comfort. They will eventually trade with our horrible fate and use our votes to make more money for themselves and their families.

Another factor to consider is the teaching and understanding of politics. People must know its real meaning, purpose and significance in people’s lives, as it is not just a business or some kind of establishment for gambling and accumulating unnecessary wealth.

In 1979, Fela Kuti formed a political movement he called movement of the people (MOP) to “clean up society like a mop”. MOP preached Nkrumanism and Africanism. In 1979, he nominated himself for president in Nigeria’s first election in decades, but his candidature was refused.

Due to Fela’s confrontations with the government of the day, the political movement became inactive, but it was revived by Fela’s youngest son, Seun Kuti, in the wake of the Nigerian #EndSARS protest of october 2020.

The purpose of this political movement was to teach and enlighten the people of Nigeria about politics, a platform which goal is majorly to awaken the consciousness and political understanding of the people about their government and the potentials we all possess as individuals to positively impact our democracy and society, the true power of citizens.

Some other political movements were established in South Africa. Although its creation predated apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) became the primary force in opposition to the government after its moderate leadership was superseded by the organisation’s more radical Youth League (ANCYL) in 1949.

Led by Walter Sisulu, Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, all elected as ANC’s national executives that year, the ANCYL advocated a radical black nationalist programme that would combine the Africanist ideas of Anton Lembede and those of Marxism.

They brought the notion that white authority could only be overthrown through mass campaigns. The ideals of the ANC and ANCYL are stated on the ANC official website. The (Tripartite) alliance is founded on a common commitment to the objectives of the National Democratic Revolution and the need to unite South Africans behind these objectives.

This cites the actionable intent, their goal to end oppression. Excessively rich people never really appreciate the problems of the poor because they never know that the masses are even suffering in any way.

We need to identify the politicians who have the genuine ideas and honest concerns for the problems of our suffering masses and understand that the solutions to our problems are in our own hands and that the job is not as bony as we think

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