Nigeria seems to be turning to a country filled with dumb people. But I refuse to be silent. I will not play the Ostrich while things are so terribly falling apart.

For a while now, residents of my neighborhood have not experienced even a flicker of electricity, not even an epileptic or a crippled one. just a total darkness.

The privileged ones who can afford some luxury have resorted to buying petrol at 145 Naira per litre to fuel their generators, creating a disjointed and irritating cacophony, chaos and dark fumes which further ache our already aching ears and ailing our lungs.

We cry in helplessness. We wonder what and why things continually turn from bad to worse. Even when we sleep, we are haunted by nightmares of recession.

Even unborn children dread being born into the nation.

Still at the end of every month, our electricity distribution companies harass us with ruinous electricity bills dropped at our doorsteps for a service that was not provided.

Still, we remain dumb, accepting our fate, praying and fasting it dies a natural death. We praise ourselves for being tolerant. But there is a very thin line between tolerance and blindness.
An average Nigerian doesn't expect much from the government. When we learn to expect accountability from our leaders, they will rise to duty.

How can you lead when you can't feel the pains of your followers?

When you don't stand on long queues to buy petrol?

When you don't know what it means to sleep in darkness and be a feast for the elite mosquitoes.

Until our leaders know what it means to struggle for moluwe buses in other to get home from work, they will not appreciate the need to build train stations.

Until they know what it means to walk in the dark with the fear of their purses being snatched, they will never begin to fight crime

Until they know what it means for their children to stay home for five years after graduation, they will never aggressively begin to create jobs.

When shall we arise and begin to speak aloud and stop hiding in fear?

When shall we begin to demand to be treated as humans that we actually are?

When will leaders in their respective positions begin to care for the common man?

And above all, when will the common man begin to speak up for himself?