Is President Goodluck Jonathan still in charge?

My fellow angry and disappointed Nigerians, ugly events currently taking place in our country, especially in the last couple of weeks clearly shows that our nation has gone past the edge of a precipice.

In fact, we are no longer sitting on a keg of gun powder. The gun powder has long exploded under this inefficient and corrupt administration that will definitely go down in the annals of this troubled nation as one of the worst and most inconsistent.

Nigerians have never had it this bad and bitter, especially under this callous, clueless and corrupt (mal)administration headed by Mr. President and his cronies.

The wanton killings of both security operatives and innocent citizens, including women and children by Boko Haram and other militia groups is an indication that Nigeria is now a ship without a captain and dangerously heading for the rocks.

It is only in a failed state like ours that terrorists and militia men will be having a field day killing and maiming without the central government finding lasting solutions or salvaging the situation.

And we have a very relaxed president and service chiefs, who are busy junketing and sharing security budgets and votes as if it’s their birth rights. What a shame!

Painfully and shamefully too, in the last couple of weeks over 80 police men had been ambushed and slaughtered like Sallah rams, with no sane person apologizing and resigning, not even the Inspector General of Police. Such unpatriotic and gross abuse of office can only happen in Nigeria, where rulers are heartless, corrupt, inept, incompetent and ready to die in office. They don’t care because our lives mean nothing to them.

In fact, Mr. President and his overwhelmed security chiefs did nothing recently when 12 police men were ambushed and killed in Bayelsa State, where he unfortunately hails from.

Another 22 were roasted alongside two soldiers and 14 prison officials on Tuesday in Bama, Borno State by dreaded Boko Haram extremists.

The killing spree continued on Wednesday with the gruesome murder of over 30 police men in Nasarawa State by Ombaste, an Eggon ethnic militia group. They also burnt nine police vans in the ambush that took the police by surprise.

With all these national calamities staring us in the face, it still hurts to know that our “oga at the top” and his unperturbed kitchen cabinet are yet to issue any statement over last week’s massacre of 39 innocent and defenceless Nigerians in Taraba State, in a clash involving Christians and Muslims.

I’m beginning to think and believe that war ravaged nations like Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan and others are even safer and better than Nigeria, in terms of security of citizens.

Mr. President, please tell us, which way Nigeria and when will this massive extermination and decimation of innocent citizens and the security operatives that are ordinarily supposed to protect us, stop?

Instead of Mr. President and his service chiefs to do the honourable thing by resigning and apologizing to Nigerians for failing them woefully in the protection of lives and property, they are busy grandstanding and fighting imaginary enemies ahead of 2015. (Amaechi on my mind.)

Sincerely, it’s pathetic and very irresponsible for Jonathan and his vision less team to be talking about 2015 now, when the country is on fire and on the brink of disintegration. How can you have the audacity and effrontery to talk about another shot at the presidency in 2015, when there is no job, especially for the army of our teeming youths?

Even the growing national insecurity, very poor power supply, which has hit an all-time low, failed educational and health systems among other decaying infrastructure and diminishing social amenities can be felt by the blind among us?

Corruption is the only thing that works efficiently in Nigeria.  And government officials keep looting our commonwealth with impunity and nobody is arresting and prosecuting them.

Meanwhile, we are supposed to have two virile anti corruption agencies with complimentary efforts from the police. Corruption, we all know has been institutionalized in our national psyche. Little wonder, many Nigerians aside being despondent and disillusioned are now living in abject poverty, in a country bountifully blessed by God, but constantly being pillaged, plundered and raped by its rapacious, evil and greedy rulers.

No country progresses or develops with its leaders being corrupt and incompetent. For Nigeria to move forward, her leaders must purge themselves of corrupt practices, starting with those at the centre. We cannot go on like this anymore and keep pretending all is well, when deep down we know that the day of reckoning is fast approaching.

According to literary icon, Chinua Achebe, in his last book before he died, There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra: “Corruption in Nigeria has passed the alarming and entered the fatal stage, and Nigeria will die if we continue to pretend that she is only slightly indisposed.”

Achebe went on to state that over $400 billion had been pilfered from Nigeria’s treasury since independence, according to a World Bank report. This is definitely not the Nigerian of our dream and will never be.

If Jonathan is still and truly in charge of the affairs of this troubled entity, he should immediately put an end to the lootings and killings currently decimating our nation. He should act now and very fast too, instead of dissipating energy fighting perceived enemies over 2015, which I also want him to completely jettison the idea.

I’m leaving Mr. President with this wise counsel from Proverbs 19:20: “Get all the advice and instruction you can, and be wise the rest of your life.”