Charly Boy
Some of the extracts are provided below.
“Oh God! Why was I born in this neck of the woods? See how low my country has sank, demeaning our value as human beings, destroying our image as greed and corruption destroys everything we hold sacred. See how it drives the youths crazily into the uncertain life of crime, dispossessing the creative and talented youths of their dreams and discrediting their imagination.
Haba, God, why? As Nigerians, what are we really good for? Were we born to be haunted and taunted?”
He laments over the inability of his home country to position itself as a respectable one, which might soon cause great disaster for it as an independent state:
“I don’t know what drives us but were we created to be a sub. Like you create two versions of something and see which one would thrive more in the habitat it would be placed. It seems the Africans (Nigerians) are failing the test and soon would be wiped out from existence. Why have we remained a consumer nation, can’t even produce nothing, even the few who can are not encouraged”
Then the celebrity, who has recently lost his father Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, switched to identifying the cores of problems and criticized Nigerians as a nation:
“As a people and as a nation, we lack focus, we are so consumed by greed that all we know how to do is compete among ourselves in this endless corruption that we fail to see the bigger picture. We are obviously operating a failed political system, educational system and whatever comes to mind. A country where literates are so myopic and shallow minded. We are still living in the era of people believing more in witches and wizard and do not believe in working towards a bright future. A kill and go system that does not really care for its people. From our so called riffraff in leadership, we are told to be patient and always pray for good luck. Can our country really be run by good luck?”
Charly Boy expressed his opinion on the country’s handling of its today’s challenges and about how quickly Nigerians forget about one problem when the new challenge appears:
“We are so myopic that when we are confronted with one problem we talk about it until another problem arises; we forget the old unsolved one and begin to rant about the new problem. It was “bring back our girls”, now is Ebola here Ebola there. Even people with PHD were bathing with salt water, Maggi and pepper. Lol”
In the extract above the singer refers to the rumour which started circulating when Ebola virus hit Nigeria. It suggested the deadly disease could be cured with salt water. Terrified over Ebola outbreak, people tried the option and as a result of such “treatment” several people died and scores were hospitalized.
“What is so bad is that we claim to have produced both academic and medical doctors and yet we can’t possibly find any solution to this bloody virus. We are begging the United States for the unapproved serum which will not be given until 2015. We have labs that can’t carry out experiments because the labs don’t have the required to function well. Are our doctors even capable? On the media you hear different stories of what’s going on while we are shielded from the truth.”
Finally he claimed that it is important for Nigeria to take up responsibility for its future and stop attributing problems to “ignorance”:
“We always think our ignorance is an excuse to the way we live and what happens to us, is it actually ignorance or stupidity? Our ignorance will not deliver us and it is no excuse to whatever happens to us. Are we not supposed to be responsible for ourselves? Are we going to keep depending on other nations for our security and safety? Where is our pride as a people and as individuals?”
According to him it was high time to start actin as action speak better than words:
“We get mouth but we no get anything. People weh get mouth na people weh get evidence of substance. Sometimes you don’t have to speak, what you have created speaks for you. Until we realize that our problems are beyond rants, curses and prayers, then can we be a step towards finding a solution. Except we want to be proved as a failed state/race would we remain in this pathetic state of existence. I’m sure I’m not the only one who knows that in Africa we are just existing and not living.”
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