OCCUPY CREEK HEAVEN

Last week the National University Commission confirmed our fears: That the new has come to jettison the old. We should brace ourselves for more excruciating times. Yes, there is no time we can say we have truly enjoyed the didvidents of democracy since the Military Administration handed over to civilian Government in 1999 when we elected our first Governor Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha till date. But at least, we never find ourselves in such truculency where we have to trade our children for a bowl of rice. No! We never did. At least not for the political class. It has always been good to be a politician in this state. Ask around, they will tell you a man celebrated his first One Billion Naira (N1,000,000,000.000.00) sometime ago, when he was deeply involved in state politics. It has always been a dream to be a politician in Bayelsa state. But the story is not the same for the vast majority of us-fishermen, subsistent farmers, brick layers, carpenters, traders, unemployed youths, and the rest living below the N18,000.00 minimum wage. We have perennially been in government’s total neglect. Prone to insecurity, exploitation by Politicians, disease, economic instability, communal clashes, flood, oil leakage, to mention but a few. We are used to hard times. At least, so we thought until now.

In fact, the last three months have been terrifying. Jet fighters have been hovering around our roofs, while Avengers were having the time of their life bringing down the country’s oil production to zero percent in the creeks. We cried, we called, we complained, but our Governor was stone deaf. Like he too had contacted an ear infection.

Three months now, we have been sitting at home. Our schools, all suffering from infrastructural decay have been under lock and key while ASUU and Government keeps playing ‘ping-pong’ with our future. Our parents have died without their gratuity, leaving us the Youths with the burden of providing for the household with no sustainable means of livelihood. Those whose parents are alive are not very much different from us as they are spending money in this excruciating times, undergoing verification exercise so they can get just 1, out of 17 months salary.

Yet, there is no inspiration from Creek Heaven.

There has been blame, lies, more blame, excuse and counter-excuses. The commissioners of this administration are in a tabular rasa. The Government itself seems to consist of its Virtual Team. Where we only get to see government’s achievements in 5 years online. Public relations have cascaded to warnings, insults and abuses from the Governor and his Aides.

The Legislators is unconcerned. As long as their Allowance keeps coming. They are more concerned with making anti-people’s Law when they are not writing Congratulatory messages to the Governor for his successful return from his 2 week holiday, then they are congratulating him for his victory at the Tribunal or passing a BILL within 24 hours for the establishment of a certain ‘University of Africa’ to be cited at Toru-Orua, the Governor’s village. While Government policies either haunts the poor masses or add more zeros to Executive’s account.

In all of these, the Judiciary, hope of the common man is reticent. Lady justicia must have been gagged by the proliferating hunger in the land. The people are left on their own.

This is the condition we find ourself in Bayelsa state.

Of course, this is a pessimistic scenario but it does not in any way capture the asperity of our plights. We Bayelsans.............http://nextnewslive.com/occupy-creek-heaven-yenagoa-e-a-aluzu/

You voted for them, you live with the consequences.

Na wah oh

Bayelsa has been an unlucky state since the military transfered power in 1999.

oduastates:
You voted for them, you live with the consequences.

, you wicked sha!!!