10 Leaders who ruined Nigeria (With Pictures)

Without electricity, water stations cannot pump water unless they resort to using generators. Fuelling and maintaining generators is expensive. The dry season is not helping matters in many households as many water wells have dried up. In the dry season, water levels usually drop. So, the sun is blistering; there is no electricity to power electric fans or air-conditioners; there is no water to drench the sweat; and no “iced” water to quench the thirst. To make matters worse, money is scarce in circulation these days; scarcer than they were in the Goodluck Jonathan era. I am sufficiently educated to understand that the Muhammadu Buhari administration cannot be held responsible for the years of the locusts that have metamorphosed into the present untold hardship.

But then, for how long will this suffering be? We booted out Jonathan and voted in Buhari to stem the rot and turn the tide. For now, we have had excuses and the blame-game ad nauseam. Again, I ask, for how long? The people’s patience is running thin. I studied History and do know that many revolutions occurred not at the peak of the people’s suffering but at the point that reformers began to tackle the rot. The people’s patience often snap when the pace of reform is not fast enough and its dividends are slow in coming. A man called me last week: He did not receive a salary from his employers in the whole of 2015. A whole year; no salary! Not even half a month! Banks and oil companies are downsizing; thousands are being thrown out of employment. This is in addition to the torrents of school leavers joining the market.