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In my words , today should be a day for mourning and not celebration. If I had my way, I would have asked all citizens to march with placards to the Lugard house with inscriptions ‘Independence Day Not Worth Celebrating In Kogi State’.
I believe that today is not a happy day for pensioners and workers because of the hardship in the state. Pensioners and workers are only surviving and that should not be the case of the citizens of a 27-years-old state. We are celebrating an inverted independence. We are celebrating a dependent independence and the painful aspect of it is that we don’t really know what we are dependent upon . It is unfortunate that we still have the same virus eating into the fabrics of our society. All we have is a change of costume of leadership and this hasn’t allowed Kogi to become the independent state that it should be . It is quite unfortunate. Our economy can’t seem to stand on its own. A particular government may seem to have got things right, then another one takes over and sucks it dry, then we begin from square one . We are celebrating a sickly independence.
Many citizens are not happy with what is going on in the state right now . We are not happy at all . I think it would be so sad and crazy if our government celebrates the independence in an elaborate way. What are they celebrating ? Our foolery ? Nobody is happy.
Things are very bad in the state and it is so sad . We are not happy and that is the simple truth. There is nothing worth celebrating in Kogi at the moment. In fact, instead of celebrating the independence, I would advise my fellow youths, pensioners and workers to embark on a dry fast all through today and pray to God because at this point, it is only God that can save us.
Indeed, Kogites are wearing the garment of hardship across the state. Investigation revealed that most citizens, irrespective of status are feeling the pinch one way or another. It is the same story from the West, Central to the East. No section of the state is marginalised in this.
More citizens are dying of hardship than from diseases and old age. Recently, a young man went to a pharmacy to check his blood pressure. His blood pressure was said to be dangerously high that the attendant offered to give him some drugs and advised him to see a doctor. He politely turned it down. Unknown to the attendant that he turned down her offer not because he felt that he did not need them but because he had no money to pay for the drugs even as he had not eaten.
– Alfa Tijani, a media aficionado, writes from Kogi state .
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