Dear Mr. President.

We know you are trying. We know you are planning. We know you attend meeting after meeting trying to move this country forward, yes sir we know. While you plan please always remember this country is getting worse and by the day.

Since I was a child we prayed for change. Imagine our relief when you came and proclaimed that change our hearts so longed for. E go beta, E go beta but things are not getting better.
We go to church and speak by faith but even faith, without works, is dead.

Boko Haram does not give a penny about our military. Even our girls have been forgotten. They have become child brides on foreign soil. Think about it sir. Not knowing the whereabouts of your child for more than two years? It would have been better for that parent if that child was dead and buried. At least then her soul would rest in peace. While we bemoan the fate of our girls, we are constantly harassed with the state of traffic in our motherland; this traffic has eroded our youth of their youth. Our people groan just trying to earn a living. Even if there was a fourth and fifth mainland bridge, they say, will things ever improve? Our cities are in ruins sir. Our roads are a death trap set for the innocent. We cringe in fear, day in day out because our government cannot provide security for her people.

We hear that as a commissioner in Nigeria, you never have to go a day without power supply. I am sure you do not know what it means to go through a day without electricity/power supply! Your people do not have access to that luxury. Yet we heard the other day that you have banned the importation of generating sets into the country without constant power supply. Hmmmm, you seem to forget that it doesn't snow in our part of the world.

Think about it sir. You parade your daughter because of her beauty. You are proud of her. The girl next door can also be that; beautiful and that smart. Unfortunately she can only attend a public school 50 kilometers away from her house, because her parents cannot afford to pay her fees. She carries her desk to and fro school each day only to come back with no knowledge because she has no books to take down notes....All these are the evils going on in your country.

The people you appointed to protect us from harm both internal and external have turned against us and are now shooting us at the slightest provocation- and in front of our children too!

We haven't even begun to talk about jobs. In Nigeria no connection no job. Our youth with vibrant minds keep escaping to Europe where they pass through untold hardships all because their government couldn't provide for them. My heart bleeds for the deteriorating state of this country. Does not yours?
Our young men have become robbers and thugs. Do you not care? These are potential scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs but how will they think of a business when they cannot even eat. Come to think of it. You promised young Nigerians a meal per day. What has happened to that promise? Alas! A mirage in the desert.

Federal and state universities that used to be the pride of the nation back in the day have become a breeding ground for thugs and cultists while the private schools offer solid education at heartbreaking prices but we do not blame them. Our government simply doesn't care. If they did, they wouldn't embezzle impossible amounts to invest in real estate in countries that already have an established economy while ours is in shambles while they send their children to school abroad the entire population is kept in poverty. What is the hope of our children?

Dear sir, if you will not look into the issue of corruption where dirty money is channeled into European and Swiss bank accounts under pseudonyms and impossible anonymity concealing the identity of those involved, at least channel some of that money in providing jobs for those who have neither the will nor interest to embezzle. How is it possible that these transfers are made unnoticed and it takes a foreign investor to find out this corruption and air "their" dirty laundry strong enough to put the entire world in a state of shock? The saddest part is that we turn around and blame the white man for our problems. For how long sir; for how long will we continue to languish and want?

We obeyed the clarion call. With gladness and eager expectation, we set forth to serve the motherland. What do we have to show for it? The ghosts amongst us got the fat paying jobs before we dropped our chalks and shovels. That evening, we came back home tired, hungry, sick, lean and worn out with nothing to show for it.

I could go on and on sir but at this point, I simply, for sanity sakes, cannot go on

We believe in you sir. That was why we cast our votes of confidence on you. We see the change you see. We hope you can bring that dream to pass.
We believe that our streets will never know darkness again. We believe that our markets will no longer be breeding grounds for infections and diseases. We believe that young Nigerians who cannot afford to pay the private institutions will not be cheated out of sound education. We believe that we will no longer lose our pregnant women and their unborn children in the labour wards. Our sick will no longer be sick, dying under the rusty knives of impoverished surgeons. We believe.

We are still praying for you. In our hearts, in our gatherings. We light that torch for you. Do not disappoint us, dear sir. Put a smile on the faces of us Nigerians again. We believe in you.

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