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In My Country

 By Costly Oma.


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In my country, sometimes, WAEC will declare you excellent only for NECO to come and write you off of any academic pursuit.

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And at times in my country, WAEC will paralyze every sense of sense in you since it usually comes first in the year and then, NECO will come later to tell you, you are not so bad after all.

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There is no smooth or straight sail of success in my country as vices are everywhere ready to pull you down. It is almost like baptism. If you are not baptised into a fold, you seem like an alien to that fold.

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In my country, almost everyone has been baptized into the spirit of my country except for a very few people who I would say are lucky to have escaped the baptism.

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In my country, even if WAEC and NECO set your sail going, JAMB might render you useless and make your ship motionless for years if it cares.

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And at times, in my country, JAMB may set your colours flying only for your university to declare you useless, worthless and incompetent as you may be conditioned to come out of the university with a pass as you were unable to meet up with some monetary demands in due time.

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And also, in my country, JAMB may make you useless for nine years or even more, only for you to get into university and bag the best graduating student. It is almost as if Book on one level is different from Book on the other level.

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In my country, if you are responsible, you are less to the government and you get little from the government but if you are irresponsible, you are more and you get much.

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In my country, being a cultist, a thief, a killer, an assassin and corrupt get high in political and military leadership but being modest, caring, understanding, compassionate and mostly good relegates you to the very last side of human levels.

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In my country, you would serve I.T in a firm that would not give you an attestation letter but would ask you for an attestation letter when you are coming to look for employment.

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In my country, JAMB will give you an admission to study Electronics and Computer Engineering, only for you to get to the school and see that it is Electronics and Computer Technology that would last for five years like Engineering and doing everything Engineering and then on graduation, you see BSc in Physics (Electrical Technology) on your certificate – a course that is not even existing in the university.

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In my country, JAMB will give you admission to study Mass Communication, only for you to get to the school and find out that you will be studying Business Administration and Management.

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In my country, an institution will make mistake on your certificate and leave you with the responsibility of applying for correction that they will in turn advise you not to apply if you are not ready to risk losing everything.

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In my country, political office holders get into Office to be served and not to serve.

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In my country, crude oil has been transported from one region of the country to another region and deposited in reservoirs just to declare those regions as oil-producing also and everyone in my country seems to agree.

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In my country, we hardly have good roads but we are building roads for other neighbouring countries.

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In my country, we don’t have a steady power supply but we are supplying power to neighbouring countries.

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In my country, we don’t have a functioning refinery but we are helping neighbouring countries to build refineries so we can export our crude to those countries, refine it there and import it back to my country.

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In my country, the government say we cannot refine our oil meanwhile there are local people almost everywhere refining oil locally and almost everyone buys locally refined petrol.

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In my country, when you discover any resource like oil, diamond, or gold in our lands, you give us reason to fight and kill ourselves.

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In my country, almost all the weapon making countries in the world refused one president from buying weapons to equip the military to fight insurgencies but right after, these same countries start selling weapons to the next president to fight the insurgencies they refused former president to fight.

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In my country, a single man has grown so powerful that he taxed motorists via tolls for his personal gains and no one can say anything.

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In my country, the government ordered live ammunition fire at innocent, harmless, peaceful protesters, killing so many and no one can say anything.

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In my country, the oppressed in turn oppress each other for the sake of the oppressor.

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In my country, we only speak the truth when the tide is not in our favour.

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In my country, when you stand to speak and do the truth (the right thing), we will all rise and connive against you.

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In my country, our political leaders only see from a very small window and almost all of us see through their eyes.

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In my country, there was a time that the full employees of a local government council don’t know the meaning of “DISMISSED” except for one young girl and one man.

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In my country, truth is difficult to find among people who are benefitting from the present government. 




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