Virtually every Nigerian is lamenting about something at the moment. The rich are crying because the noise of the poor is disturbing their sleep, while the opportunity to flaunt their wealth has never been riskier than it is now. Not only are they not sure of the backlash from the bad boys,
government of President Muhammadu Buhari making a discrete check to confirm that the opulence is not the proceeds of privatisation of the commonwealth. The lament of the poor is not difficult to rationalise: The money in his pocket is becoming more and more like papers: he now carries money to the market with a wheelbarrow and returns with the goods procured in his pocket.
Those who are in employment are not sure if they will still have their slot tomorrow, while those in the labour market have seen the unemployment queue getting longer with very little hope of getting to the “service point”.
Motorists now sit for longer periods in their cars, not because of longer journeys but in queues for what will make the engine roar again. The pedestrians are no better: they stay longer at bus stops for buses that may never appear, and when they do, more resources are needed to settle their fares with the bus operators. With the spate of very high temperature at these times, everyone has a lament: Whether you have a generator or not.
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