RECESSION DIARY 9

RECESSION DIARY: CHRONICLES OF BUHARINOMICS
LESSON : GOD WILL MAKE A WAY
As the Nigerian Senate resumed from their long recess, top of the agenda is the recession. One thought ideas will abound as the nation's lawmakers met to chart a tangible way forward.
But lo Nigerians were in for a big surprise as our lawmakers started dozing off on National tv while the future of Nigerians was being discussed. Now is it a surprise that Nigeria is in a recession when our leaders are sleeping at the wheel? How the nation has not crashed with this kind of stewardship when after a long holiday our lawmakers who are the highest paid Lawmakers in the world resume plenary to doze off while on National Assignment.
Livid with anger Nigerians were up in arms as the pictures of the dozing lawmaker hit the airwaves but alas expect the spin doctors to emerge today with tales of deception ranging from the lawmaker was bitten by a Tsetse Fly hence has Sleeping Sickness to he has Cardiomyopathy thus he must nap every 30 minutes to protect his failing heart. Lo, the man is too vital to resign for he is the forerunner and lone voice of wisdom in Kaduna State hence it is no one else but him before earth tremors consume the state if he is forced to resign against the will of God.

This is how a nation descends into mediocrity as the spin has begun to lose its vitality as Nigerians wake up each day to the realities of how uninspiring our leadership is. After much complaining and wailing the Presidency finally woke up to address the situation in the North East with the Vice President emerging from a tete-a-tete with the Ministers to announce a new strategy to address the famine and starvation in the North East. And this strategy appears as lame as a dead duck as responsibility for food distribution has only been shifted from Director-cadre in the Ministries to under the Ministers' personal supervision.
This is only moving the yam from a billy-goat to a He-goat  to keep in the store and with due respect to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan the man was indeed right that Goats must eat yam.
Instead of unleashing an attack dog with teeth to hunt down the criminals who have been stealing the food aid and supplies of the IDPs, to act as a deterrent to others, Nigerians are made to hear a sorry tale of more buck passing all to skirt round the real issues.
For a regime that came to power on an anti-corruption platform internal spring cleaning appears to be a faux pas.
One wonders how the likes of Jumai Alhassan, Udo Udoma and Lai Mohammed are going to carry rice on their heads to IDP camps for the foot soldiers truly responsible for the distribution are the scourge of the crisis hence only direct action of the Ministers can save the day since these sacred cows at the helm must not be touched.
And not to ridicule Hajia Jummai Alhassan who has worked tirelessly to bring succour to the needy, one must recollect how she collapsed in Adamawa just last week as the rigours of her assignment and ill health struck her petit frame.
The President fails to realize that the limitations of his ministers are legion when the bureaucracy of the Civil Service starts raising obstacles and not until criminals diverting food aid are hunted down, charged and imprisoned there will be no let off in the humanitarian crisis in the North East.

And while the Executive is still grooping in the dark on the way out of the recession Nigerians are left in despair. There is a clandestine rise in abortions as couples come to terms with the financial implications of raising a child in a recession. Only a few Nigerians can afford the luxury of delivery overseas of a set of quadruplets after an expensive infertility treatment. Indeed these children are lucky to be born with a silverspoon in a state where teachers are on strike and workers are subsisting on half salary. Indeed the residents of that  state should expect even more hardship for as the annals of history has shown that the state's leadership is notorious for amassing wealth for generations unborn and medical expenses yet to be incured. Now with quadruplets that's four times the wealth that must be amassed for the new Prince and Princesses born to the maximum ruler hence the people's woes have only just begun. But why shed a tear for a people who can sell their destiny and birthright for a mess of porridge as their recent solidarity march in support of their godmother whose accounts have been frozen by the EFCC shows how decadent a people can be who enjoy the whips of their taskmasters who amass gold and silver while riding on their backs. Indeed is ours a wasted generation?

But the issue of abortions remains worrisome. As husbands lose their jobs and wives become the sole breadwinner, previously wanted pregnancies become unwanted as couples flood hospitals and other outlets to abort advanced pregnancies just to escape the complexities of acquiring one more hungry mouth to feed.
The hike in School fees and house rent alone necessitated by the recession and run away inflation is enough to quench one's libido talkless of one more mouth to feed. Those who wish to escape this predicament should embrace appropriate family planning measures pending when the economy improves.
For those seeking to terminate a pregnancy they should have a rethink for God will make a way where there seems to be none. No one knows tomorrow and as God sustains so to will he sustain the baby.
The unwanted child of the day maybe tomorrow's leader. President Obama was abandoned by his father who later committed suicide. Indeed if he had seen the future would he have made such a drastic mistake?
I know many colleagues who have raised children who were abandoned at their doorsteps as babies. These children have grown into successful brillant children hence God who saved these little ones will certainly create a way of escape but to abort a pregnancy is to end a life over mere economic hardship. Give up the child for adoption but to end a precious life is not the best way out.

As the recession plays on the intelligence of Nigerians one can only hope and pray that it ends soon so that the recovery can commence.
So Nigerians should not give up hope. For God will make a way where there seems to be none. Another day in the recession, another lesson.