Let’s circle back to the Alligator in the room. As I alluded to earlier, we do not choose our families, our families choose us. We also do not choose our countries. Our countries choose us. Nigeria chose me. I love her therefore, but my love must also give me a choice not only to love her but to also be able to be critical of her inadequacies where they exist.
Dear Nigeria, inflation is ravaging your people. What is the way out? Increasing wages is probably the worst possible solution that can be applied at this time. It will drive inflation through the roof. I am no genius, but I am a student of history. I believe this is the time for the government to create a subsidy regime for production. We cannot go wrong with this time-tested, inflation proof economic theory. America subsidizes Agriculture and Medicare combined to the tune of $1 Trillion annually. Let us not be fooled by the IMF. We need brilliant and patriotic minds at every level of governance to provide home grown, altruistic solutions. Let’s face it. We are a badly behaved people. We need economic solutions that would also address bad behavior. The time to act is now. Let’s face the bush with bulldozers, with tractors, with fertilizers, and with an army of people who say no to Zimbabwe, and no to Argentina, and no to Venezuela. Let’s get the country humming and working. Ladies and gentlemen, there’s work to be done—the work to save Nigeria.
By the time you are reading this, President Ahmed Tinubu would have spent one year in Aso Rock. The question we all must answer individually as citizens is this: Are you better off now than you were one year ago?
Michael Ovienmhada.
Author, Poet, Playwright and Public Affairs Commentator.
omeekey@hotmail.com
