Media traces of wrong ways of economic transport of the nation away on foreign trips, written by Egede Lawrence.
Bitter truths are painful to the ears of those who avoid them trying to always be on the safe side, even when necessity does not warrant it or call for it at all.
Oftentimes I first tell myself the home and abroad truths about my errors and correct myself.
If milages were to be counted, to issue the report on how far I have gone to see the distances noted in the politics of Nigeria, I could say that my experiences about it cannot be enumerated anymore. It has been far spent.
The shortcut to the answer was that in my probity about politics in Nigeria, there has never been a good time that our politicians were able to give good accounts of their services to the nation.
Most of the politicians in the nation achieved nothing for the people earlier on, because they loved personal aggrandizement to the perils of the economy of Nigeria and the survival of the citizenry. It was very infectious.
That's why the nation ran into the levels of economic problems it is being experienced now.
This time it is only in Ebonyi State I saw a Governor in the person of Engr. David Umahi tried his best to involve a good number of people in his Cabinet, to give a good account of himself to the entire State.
But despite all the intelligent ways he tried to accommodate some people, because of how he saw the problem of the economy of Nigeria, they were not grateful and embarked on criticizing his regime. They lacked awareness of how the economy collapsed.
If I have not been involved in all the values of the nation's indoor business undertakings where it is important, I wouldn't be able to know anything related to the country's economic dilemma.
Few leaders like him fell into political ungratefulness of the people they thought were wise enough, to understand that it is not easy to acquire uncorrupt constructive leaders in service.
Have we ever had a leader in Nigeria that served and went home broke, apart from the case of Mbakwe of Imo State during the second republic?
That was about the State level, but did it happen at the national front in any season of political Leadership use of power and authority in and out of seats?
The daring rush to the seats of power has been a result of how to control the economy in such a complex manner, which always blindfolds the masses.
Any leader who is in control of a nation's economy can never go bankrupt but can liaise with business tycoons and conspire to enrich himself or herself for reasons of having power.
Authoritatively nobody can do anything to stop the upsurge to power, because it is attractive.
The supremacy in the might of power is the main attraction to the upsurge, which drives crazy the mentality of our politicians.
They go anywhere, do anything they can, say anything they can and freely get out of it clean or not, and they will never be held responsible. That's the problem with it, which has no solution.
Nigerian politicians have developed an external appetite for going abroad especially the Presidential hopefuls, using it to prove that the nation cannot give them what they needed to live without trotting the globe.
These are leaders who were in power at one time or another other, once in power will always struggle to continue in power.
That's why it is a tug of war for power to rotate but will always revolve around the same group, who enjoy the merry-go-round.
I am not against their rights fundamentally for them to go anywhere they desired to visit, but to make it a habit as if travelling abroad is a festival of superiority complex is absurd.
I mean that my psychological view about it triggers a spiritual suspicion, beyond the Nigerian borders that behind it there may be something else they go for.
It is not just because they can afford it but there is a question mark, asking about the cogent reasons behind their constant trips abroad in such magnitude.
I am saying this because it has got a question mark as to why is it that the politicians abroad never came to Nigeria for any reason, but our politicians cherish it. Something is amiss.
How many politicians from all other nations have ever visited Nigeria, especially when they are contesting elections in their domains at any time, or for any known reason whatsoever?
I am not talking about going to other nations on business trips, but must it be a steady chorus which ridicules the psychology of people, who are so serious about their domestic political aims?
It seems to me that politicians in Nigeria have something that is at stake abroad in business, and that's why our economy is under severe and acute disdain.
I am not talking about medical attention trips abroad, but how on earth will our politicians be sick all the time and focused on going abroad, just because they want to look fit to douse public doubt about their medical reports? Is Nigeria unhygienic?
If so be that Nigeria is found to be under unhygienic conditions, why should our politicians shy away from her to seek the help of other countries that are serious to retain their hygiene?
For sixty-two years of national Independence, Nigeria is yet to develop a healthy economy, but our politicians still reap her to go abroad for businesses that can hardly resuscitate life and good health for the economy.
My advocacy is that politicians and business concerns that are milking the country dry, only for themselves should not be seen as extraordinary Ambassadors, but as Pariahs against Nigeria.
Look at the population of the country and the few numbers of them living sumptuously well.
I am not envious but troubled about the condition of the people and the economy of the nation.
I weep spiritual at heart for the country and for the masses in the economic mess, bereaving families that ought to exist in the comfort of economic security.
Let our politicians minimize the huge spending going abroad oftentimes, and allow the home economy some lively respite.
To God is the glory forever.
Egede Lawrence is our guest writer and public affairs analyst.
