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The pain remains painful

But no one has the eye to see the colours of pain, the sufferings  and the mawling jaws of lack. 

In 2015, the Nigerian economy was still robust. From this year (to two years afterwards), I had an opportunity to conduct market entry route research for one of the world's largest breweries across major cities in the country. Like a troubadour, I traversed the entire land.

Rossy was the game. Trading was active. Consumption was okay. Demand and supply was equilibrium.

Today, everything has changed. Poverty have devasted homes. Lack has robbed people out of lexicon.

Some hours ago, I happened to drive through one of the geographies where the project (above) was launched. What I saw was a hell on earth: closed beverage outlets caused by lower consumer purchasing powers; and faces of people looking skeletal, gaunt and needy, as proteins vamoused from their family menu.

 A certain man beside a canal bridge was empirically away from himslf. He stood there like a ghost soliloquizing (and monologuing), such that even a deaf being could hear his bones crying in his flesh.

I calmed mien and asked myself this question: What are the causes of these pains and decolorizing society? I couldn't find the answer in my inner being.

However, I could remember some days when two fantastics were arguing: the religious bigot claims "the coming of Christ was approaching, it's reason the world is in turmoil"....

The  other one, a traditionalist vehemently assets  "the spirit of ancestors were offended at evils people unleash in the society at this post-modern world."

A Left-leaning critics of market reform had (last year)  posited that, "the current Economic hardships emerged from Jagan neo-liberalism", (an economic system and policies designed by the administration of the current Nigerian president), plus the dismantled petroleum subsidy regime by same administration...

Well, it's obvious. Pains and lack has bestowed the people like colossus, but no one cares enough to see or devise a means to bring more just order. 


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