My History Essay

English 100

10-5-2011

                                        Living in the world with no Ears

             The election of a new president always marks the beginning of yet another suffering for the people. After four years of office terms, Nigerian presidents leave the office in no good condition, especially bad economic system in the country. Any other elected president will have to work very hard in other to retain and maintain adequate economic system. This problem has led to Downfall of economic system, corruption and continually strike on Government jobs and schools. The elected presidents are not fully concerned about the welfare of the country; they are usually trying to protect their own interest, therefore pulling down business managements by seeping money from them.

            The downfall of economic system in my country had not just affected my family but also certain people they are in worst financial conditions than us. For example, my friend’s Dad who was fired in his job place where he worked as a petroleum engineer. Little did they know that they government had decreased the price of petroleum in every petroleum company from (Naira) N81.15 to N51.15 because of the high level of gas in demand. This made some Nigerian public/government schools to go on strike, and one of these schools

 was where my friend was enrolled in with her other two siblings. This school strike had made students that were fully involved in school activities to be less concerned about it once they stay at home more than three days in a week. Teachers were getting less salary, therefore interfering with their basic needs, and also the tax for an item went up to higher price. The tax was a way the government thought could be of help to solve issues concerning the country’ current situation but less did they know it was affecting people in a bigger way, especially people like my Friends dad who really depended on the salary paid by the  government.

Things really became very difficult for her and her family. With all this crises, they were now living from hand to mouth. Her dad couldn’t save up to a reasonable amount to afford the family. One day due to their inability to pay rent, their house owner (landlord) came and threw them out of the house after some serious warning on paying the debt

Nigeria faced serious financing gap for the economic transformation because of the way money was being managed in the country, the government invested it in a less important things, like using the money for their own advantages and being greedy with it. More crisis were arousing and corruption was one of them, people started to bribe each other in order to get something back,. Even though corruption is the challenge every country faces, this one raised to an uncomprehending situation. This had suddenly led to corruption

 because it was the only means of getting money due to the affected economy. Police men don’t allow cars to pass the border unless some certain amount of money is given to them. Theft became popular too of which my family and I was once a victim. We were travelling to a nearby city when all of a sudden cars on the road including ours were stopped. Wondering what the problem could be, people dressed in an unusual way were already pointing guns on our head. We had to surrender our luggage and other valuables for our lives to be freed. This kind of situation is not something somebody will or should wish for but we had no choice than to face the consequences of electing a president who was not going to keep his promises in the office. Electing these presidents seemed like the dreams of becoming who we want to be has been shattered by another man, therefore leaving us hopeless.