Constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome, has lamented the sorry state of affairs in Nigeria, saying that at 59 years of age, Nigerians now live like walking corpses or the walking dead due to the poverty and hunger in the land.

Noting that Nigeria, once upon a time the biggest economy in Africa and the 3rd fastest growing in the world, Ozekhome said: “Parents now sell their children to survive and the children do like wise. Husbands kidnap wives and wives kidnap husbands’ for cheap ransom.”

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria made the disclosures in a statement titled, “Tears, Sorrow, Blood, Lamentation for Nigeria at 59”

Ozekhome said: ‘Tears. Sorrow. Blood. Pains. Pangs. Anger. Hunger. Melancholy. Dejection. Hopelessness. Haplessness. Disillusionment. Poverty. Ignorance.

“Termites and maggots eat up the national edifice.

“Chaos and anarchy reign supreme. Impunity triumphs.

“Irredentism, cronyism, clannishness and nepotism strut around like a proud peacock.

“Corruption multiplies geometrically, ravaging the land.

“Nigeria is now the second most corrupt country in West Africa and one of the 148 most corrupt in the world.

“Rule of law is subsumed, human rights crushed, Democracy is vanquished.

“Even basic civil liberties are suppressed and subjugated. Judges are brutalised, humiliated and denigrated, for doing their jobs.

“The Judiciary is weakened, traumatised, pauperised.

“The legislators haemourrage the national purse with fantastic and indefensible out-of-the-world pay packets.

“The Executive acts imperiously, untramelled, uncontrolled, like Louis X14 of France.

“The cabal holds the nation down by the jugular. Less than 20 people dictate the fate of 200 million Nigerians. There are no checks and balances.

“Absolutism, dictatorship, fascism, brutality, bestride our democratic space like a collosus.”

Ozekhome added that “Yet, the people, the Civil Society, remain docile, complicit, frightened and cowed.

“Mediocrity is enthroned in place of meritocracy.

“Hypocrisy, lies, revisionism, propaganda are elevated, celebrated and dressed in the false garb of truth and patriotism.

“Genuine criticism, dissent, opposition, plurality of views, are treated as treason, and at best as treasonable felony. Nigerians now murmur, rather than discuss freely.

“Soliloquy and monologue take the place of robust dialogue. Nigerians now live like walking corpses, like the living dead.

“The common man and woman languish in abject penury.

“The middle class diminishes. Industries relocate to neighbouring countries. Massive disinvestment becomes the order of the day.

“Nigeria, once upon a time the biggest economy in Africa and the 3rd fastest growing in the world, is today the poverty capital of the world.

“Parents now sell their children to survive and the children do like wise. Husbands kidnap wives and wives husbands for cheap ransom.

“Insecurity becomes the order of the day. Boko Haram, herdsmen, kidnappers, armed robbers, hired assassins, control our highways, pathways and forest routes.

“Nigeria has been turned into a gruesome crimson field of bloodbath.

“There is mass suicide and homicide. Mass unemployment is the order of the day. Retrenchment becomes a norm.

“Education and certificates are racketeered.

“Children learn under uncovered roofs in rain, storm and sun, sitting on bare floor.

“Graduates roam the streets without jobs.

“Our beautiful daughters and sisters are sold into second slavery as sex objects.

“Young able-bodied men take to kidnapping, armed robbery, internet scams and Otokoto rituals.

“Money bags are celebrated, no matter the illicit sources of their wealth.

“The church and the mosque are complicit in this societal degeneration.

“Morals, ethics, values, recede into the abyss of historical oblivion.

“Prices of food have gone out of the of the roofs, leaving the poor prostrate and defeated.

“The tail now wags the dog, the leaders molest the people whose mandate they utilise.

“They laugh the people to scorn, exploit them, beat them, scourge them, impoverish them and misuse them.

“God, where, when, how and why did we find ourselves in this scandalous state of nadir, doldrums and national calamity?

“Nigeria at 59!!! A woman still crawling, misused, dehumanised and degraded.

“There will still be sunshine at the end of the storm.

“Yes, a silver lining on a dark cloudy sky.

“God help us,” Ozekhome said.

See more here; http://gistmore.com/at-59-nigerians-now-live-like-corpses-walking-dead-mike-ozekhome

You are part of the evil system. Defender of the corrupt. No difference between you (PDP) and APC. Stop acting saint.

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See more here; http://gistmore.com/at-59-nigerians-now-live-like-corpses-walking-dead-mike-ozekhome

Lifeless buhari destroyed Nigeria more. very bad. his VP Osinbajo has been ruined too. watch Calm down...farabale- VP Osinbajo

Next level is still loading. nothing in their next level.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynzm-KCTeDg

So Much Truth right there

And you mr ozekhome is part of the problem. Politicians loot our country dry and you collect part of the loot and defend them with all resources at your disposal

Ok

You have done well by speaking the truth but it remains only one truth you've not told us, which is.......The corrupt way you've amassed wealth from these same people that has caused Nigeria and Nigerians so much pains....Posterity will judge us all.

This guy dey watch series too?

Can Mike Ozekhome tell us in what year he was kidnapped for ransom?

The undead will flood this post now. Chief Zombie and Commander in Chief Of the undead, NamaBbqgrills over to you

Pained loser. Get out!

No

You said so

oz4real83:
You are part of the evil system. Defender of the corrupt. No difference between you (PDP) and APC. Stop acting saint.

oboy this thing has gone beyond political parties. Whether pdp,apc, nrc or sdp doesn't matter. The system is flawed.

Hmm

How sad.

People are just at home because it's a forced holiday, I can't see jubilation around me, it seems most citizens are simply not impressed with the country.

A friend just returned from Rwanda, he told me about how jubilant they were on their national day, a country that recently survived genocide, it shows what quality leadership can do to the psyche of a people which is what Nigeria has lacked in all strata of leadership.

Instead of celebrating Nigeria a lot of energy is expended on NL castigating or praising Buhari by youths here

But if they should call to engage your services right now to defend them against the very walking/dying corpse, you won't hesitate to start singing a new song with that your toilet flipping mouth.


Yenyenyen

Just because your patrons are out of work for now...

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Coming from the same man whose only stock in trade is defending natural born criminals who parade themselves as political leaders.

Ozekome, you will surely be alright las las.

I swear

Tempted to believe

See this one who almost got killed by Kidnappers during GEJs tenure as President.

It would have saved us this stress

Baba re ni Walking Dead.

Ozokhome the looters defenders

It is your family and your folks that are hapless, depressed, ill etc. Useless lawyer!
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