BY VICTOR TERHEMBA
I am a young man under 30, I struggle every day
just to get by. Every day, I work hard using my intellectual
ability and skill to make a living legitimately, toiling under the
unbearable and harsh conditions of my country, yet my president
says I’m lazy and want everything free.
I take care of my bills pay house rent, pay tax and settle
extended responsibilities. I do for myself what my government is
supposed to do for me but has failed to do, yet my president says
I’m lazy and want everything free.
I Am not registered at a gym but my biceps are not lacking
healthy muscles, because I exercise them every night (and almost
every other time) when I have to draw my generator just to have
light, yet my president says I’m lazy and want everything free.
When I’m sick I’m treated at the local hospital where I risk
being injected with overdose or with the wrong medicine by the
nurse, but when my president has a headache, he travels to
London to buy panadol, yet he says I’m lazy and want everything
free.
My brother wakes up every morning at 4:30 am to set out for his
office in Ikoyi and returns back home 10pm at night, yet my
president says he is lazy and wants everything free.
While I sit tight in a Lagos traffic, trying to block out the
cacophony of blaring horns from other motorists, I see young people
hawking variables- sometimes under the unfriendly sun and sometimes
in the dead of the night, yet my president says these people are
lazy and want everything free.
Every year, thousands of youth struggle to graduate from the
University, the females one who were unlucky get sexually harassed
by male lectures but they finally pull through, then they are sent
to strange lands to serve the country, when they’re done, the big
government official tells them to go and be self employed so that
they can create job opportunities for others, yet my president says
we are lazy and want everything free.
My heart bleeds for those young Nigerian entrepreneurs who
cannot get access to soft loans because they are not connected to a
big man in government, but my President believes they are lazy and
want everything free.
Qualified young Nigerians cannot be employed in the CBN or NNPC
or NIMASA because they are not sons and relatives of governors,
senators or ministers, yet my president says they are lazy and want
free things.
I feel sorry for those young Nigerian inventors who have been
going to the ministry of science and technology to present their
life-changing inventions to the big man in office but can’t because
the big government man is either out of office, or he is busy, or
he has travelled, and when he finally sees them, he tells to come
back tomorrow… tomorrow that ends. I feel sorry for them because my
president believes they lazy and want everything free.
The senators in my country earn a lump sum of N14.250 million
(minus other allowances) every month. They sat down in their
“hallowed” chambers, unperturbed, and watched how some armless
youths strolled into the senate, seized the mace and walked out
unchallenged, yet my president says it is me that is lazy and wants
everything free.
I am not a minister, I don’t collect estacodes for travelling to
nowhere in particular and for doing nothing, yet my president says
I’m lazy and want everything free.
My president said he was going to fight corruption to a
standstill, but my president harbors corrupt people in his circle
and in some, cases rewarded them. My president said he was going to
build a prosperous and vibrant economy for us, yet our economy has
fallen deeper but he blames it on the past government. My president
said he was going to create three million jobs yearly, in under
three years, over 7 million Nigerians have lost their jobs. My
president said he is now a reformed democrat but severally my
president has displayed a flagrant disregard for the rule of law.
Yet my president says I am lazy and want everything free.
My president is the 75 years old Muhammadu Buhari of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.
As an African that respect for elders has been ingrained our
culture, I cannot argue with elders. I’m not interested in proving
to the president that I am not lazy, I will save all the energy so
that in 2019 I can have enough strength to go to my polling unit,
wait patiently in line, get the ballot paper and vote out my
president. #MyPVCmyPower
Victor Terhemba, a talent manager, political and social
commentator, is on Twitter @VictorTerhemba
BY VICTOR TERHEMBA
I am a young man under 30, I struggle every day
just to get by. Every day, I work hard using my intellectual
ability and skill to make a living legitimately, toiling under the
unbearable and harsh conditions of my country, yet my president
says I’m lazy and want everything free.
I take care of my bills pay house rent, pay tax and settle
extended responsibilities. I do for myself what my government is
supposed to do for me but has failed to do, yet my president says
I’m lazy and want everything free.
I Am not registered at a gym but my biceps are not lacking
healthy muscles, because I exercise them every night (and almost
every other time) when I have to draw my generator just to have
light, yet my president says I’m lazy and want everything free.
When I’m sick I’m treated at the local hospital where I risk
being injected with overdose or with the wrong medicine by the
nurse, but when my president has a headache, he travels to
London to buy panadol, yet he says I’m lazy and want everything
free.
My brother wakes up every morning at 4:30 am to set out for his
office in Ikoyi and returns back home 10pm at night, yet my
president says he is lazy and wants everything free.
While I sit tight in a Lagos traffic, trying to block out the
cacophony of blaring horns from other motorists, I see young people
hawking variables- sometimes under the unfriendly sun and sometimes
in the dead of the night, yet my president says these people are
lazy and want everything free.
Every year, thousands of youth struggle to graduate from the
University, the females one who were unlucky get sexually harassed
by male lectures but they finally pull through, then they are sent
to strange lands to serve the country, when they’re done, the big
government official tells them to go and be self employed so that
they can create job opportunities for others, yet my president says
we are lazy and want everything free.
My heart bleeds for those young Nigerian entrepreneurs who
cannot get access to soft loans because they are not connected to a
big man in government, but my President believes they are lazy and
want everything free.
Qualified young Nigerians cannot be employed in the CBN or NNPC
or NIMASA because they are not sons and relatives of governors,
senators or ministers, yet my president says they are lazy and want
free things.
I feel sorry for those young Nigerian inventors who have been
going to the ministry of science and technology to present their
life-changing inventions to the big man in office but can’t because
the big government man is either out of office, or he is busy, or
he has travelled, and when he finally sees them, he tells to come
back tomorrow… tomorrow that ends. I feel sorry for them because my
president believes they lazy and want everything free.
The senators in my country earn a lump sum of N14.250 million
(minus other allowances) every month. They sat down in their
“hallowed” chambers, unperturbed, and watched how some armless
youths strolled into the senate, seized the mace and walked out
unchallenged, yet my president says it is me that is lazy and wants
everything free.
I am not a minister, I don’t collect estacodes for travelling to
nowhere in particular and for doing nothing, yet my president says
I’m lazy and want everything free.
My president said he was going to fight corruption to a
standstill, but my president harbors corrupt people in his circle
and in some, cases rewarded them. My president said he was going to
build a prosperous and vibrant economy for us, yet our economy has
fallen deeper but he blames it on the past government. My president
said he was going to create three million jobs yearly, in under
three years, over 7 million Nigerians have lost their jobs. My
president said he is now a reformed democrat but severally my
president has displayed a flagrant disregard for the rule of law.
Yet my president says I am lazy and want everything free.
My president is the 75 years old Muhammadu Buhari of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.
As an African that respect for elders has been ingrained our
culture, I cannot argue with elders. I’m not interested in proving
to the president that I am not lazy, I will save all the energy so
that in 2019 I can have enough strength to go to my polling unit,
wait patiently in line, get the ballot paper and vote out my
president. #MyPVCmyPower
Victor Terhemba, a talent manager, political and social
commentator, is on Twitter @VictorTerhemba
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