Nigeria in Quagmire: Letter to Mr. President Part 1

By Tony Ejiofor

This is not a Text Book but an articulation of the frustrations, experiences
and hopes of Nigerian masses to M r President. It Is also intended to wake
up from political coma other levels of government in our dear country. By
this we mean the National assembly, State and Local Governments.
In this twenty-first century when most hitherto primitive and so
called third world countries Like North Korea, India, Iran and Pakistan
to mention a few have transformed into modern economies, improved the
welfare of their people and become assertive in the committee Of nations,
our country despite its enormous natural and human resources remains in
the woods.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 9, 2010
• ISBN: 9781453531709

Tony Ejiofor

Tony Ejiofor is a Political scientist, Teacher, Analyst and Commentator. He is co-author of Government and Politics in Nigeria books 1-3.He has written many Articles on the urgency of socio-economic advancement in Nigeria. He writes from the heart with a patriotic zeal.

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

OUR ABSURD POLITICAL VALUES

CORRUPTION QUAGMIRE IN NIGERIA

INFRASTRUCTURAL QUAGMIRE

ELECTRICTY

MASSIVE UNEMPLOYMENT QUAGMIRE-3

THE NIGERIA POLICE FORCE-

THE PEOPLES ANATHEMA

THE NIGERIAN PARADOX

NIGERIAN LEADERS 1960

TO THE PRESENT

FOREWORD

By Dr. Funso Oluyitan

What is quagmire? A marshy tract with quaking surface.

Reading Nigerian Quagmire in form of a letter to Mr. President reminds me of a Fulani story about the hero of The Blue Blood, narrated by Harold Courlander in A Treasury of African Folklore published by Marlowe & Company, New York in 1996.

Allow me to share it with you.

"In his youth, Goroo-Ba-Dicko (name set in a different spelling) was fighting under the command of a great chief. Once he arrived, at nightfall, with the rest of the host, at a well near which stood a Fulani woman, as beautiful as an angel. The warriors captured her and carried her off to their camp. The chief wanted her for himself. He commanded the woman to lie down alone, away from the soldiers, where no one could come near her.

Time passed, and all the warriors were haunted by the woman’s beauty. Goroo-Ba-Dicko could not sleep. Despite the chief’s orders, he crept away and approached the beautiful prisoner. He carried her off at the risk of his life, took her on his horse, and rode out of the camp. The man and the woman journeyed through the night. The hard nipples of the woman’s breasts pressed into the young warrior’s back. The warrior, though consumed by desire and even by real love, curbed his passion, quenching the feelings aroused by the contact of the woman. The two riders arrived on their horse at the edge of the well where the woman had been captured. The man bade her dismount, and said, Do you know the well?’ In a voice broken by emotion, the woman replied, simply and calmly, yes, it is the well of my village."

The warrior, though visibly agitated, steeled himself to say to her, You are Free.

Tony Ejiofor’s message to Mr. President is, Nigeria is your Well. You are Free The surrounding is marshy with quaking surface. Tony has explored the diverse landscape of Nigeria, chronicling the horrors of corruption, inflation, infrastructural quagmire, massive unemployment and absurd political values.

Tony invokes the spirits of the Greek God Atlas, who carried the whole world on his shoulders, President F. D. Roosevelt that brought America out of the post World War II great depression, and the Chinese legend, Chairman Mao Tse Tung that built the modern and progressive Peoples Republic of China through his policy of LET ONE HUNDRED FLOWERS BLOSSOM."

One may ask, Tony Ejiofor, are you not asking too