Here's to Us - Toast to Us!

Here's to the strong and determined Nigerian. To the Nigerian who is unwavering and resolved in the quest to live a good life. He does not have a father in the government or a mother in the welfare system, but as an orphan lives through the realities in his home. She does not find a husband in patriotism or children in her compatriots, still she keeps her home even for the bastards her husband got out of wedlock.


Cheers!
Here's to the Minister of Power and his generating plant, however small, "e pass him neighbor"
Here's to the Minister of Water Resources whose bore hole system supplies water to his household and entire street.




Here's to the Minister of Aviation who lost his luggage, and ensured he got it back all by himself, although he had to spend some extra thousands of Naira and an extra week on his trip.
Here's to the Minister of Defence who pays his security guard, estate security levies, painstakingly trains his guard dogs and alas! he still pays his taxes.
Here's to the Minister of Petroleum whose motherland was plundered, plagued and left with nothing, just to get "the oil".


Shout out to my fellow Nigerians. To the young man who keeps pressing in, to the young woman who won't give in, to the old man who still sees a future and the old woman who plans for child birth.

 I will only see Nigeria when I look. I choose never to see less. When I stand on Oshodi bridge, Mpape hills and in Ariaria market, I choose not to see a people governed by wolves, at the mercy of time and chance, who do whatever it takes to make ends meet.  I will only see progress and prosperity when I look. I will see a generation matching forward, demanding more, enduring less, a people governing themselves through conscience and democracy. When I look at these people, I see one thing only; The Government. They are the people with the power, the people with the say and the people with the instrument.