Wow! But the part I can't wrap my head around is how much was spent in such vain celebrations when there are serious environmental, social and political issues begging for lasting solution.
Some of the money devoted to hosting foreign visitors, who in the first place care less whether Nigeria survives or not, could have been better deployed caring for the needs of the millions of impoverished and deprived peoples of this country.
I still marvel at such callousness by our public officials. What could have informed their decision to spend so much in celebrating a country where several millions groan in pain and struggle in poverty and lack of the basic structures to pull them out of the quagmire? The money deployed in such fanciful and wasteful display could have been better utilized, if the government really cared for the people.
The bomb blasts shouldn't have come as a surprise. The security services have also become impoverished. We have constantly heard tales of security forces being overwhelmed by the superior firepower of criminal bandits; hence, why should a bomb blast right at the backyard of the venue for such debauchery cause such shock? The security services can only muster as much a result as the equipment they are bogged down with can conjure. In the face of stark antiquity of such equipment it is easy for the security networks to be penetrated by dare-devil militants.
My only hope is in the people of this country, our ability to never say die and penchant to always call on the Nigerian Factor in whatever situation we find ourselves in.
Government has promised to cater for the families of those who were victims of the bomb blast. But I ask, is it only when calamities befall us that the government should think of doing something for its citizenry?
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