As the city of Beirut, Lebanon boils from the ruin of blast that shattered almost 200 lives with about 600 critically injured — and property worth billions destroyed, Lebanese from across the country seem to wake from slumber to take their destinies in their hands.
With the eruption of powerful and earth shaking protest demanding a holistic change in the country’s deeply divided, fantastically corrupt and religious but ungodly society, the time seems to have come for the country’s cabal to take a bow and pave the way for a real transformation with the people as its centrepiece.
Already, the Prime Minister of the small Mediterranean country has been dragged to resignation with few courageous acts from various quarters signifying the country might be walking towards total freedom from the clutches, yokes — and iron fists of corrupt and powerful elements who have held the country by jugular for years on end thereby stifling progress and slowing development.
The story of beirut’s blast though heart wrenching and emotionally melting is not so much different from that of Nigeria state of Bornu where internally displaced persons are littered across the state territorial demarcation with starvation, suffering and sickness almost in troves and primarily caused by the dreaded and bloodthirsty Boko Haram insurgency.
Both cities ruin exemplified the inherent danger of poor and bad leadership with looting, stealing and lying to the people as a branded style thereby making life pretty difficult for the masses.
Indeed, the destruction and damages done in the Northeastern states of Bornu, Adamawa and Yobe with kidnapping of school girls both in Chibok and Dapchi is enough a reason to force a responsible government out of power — and bring in new minds with fresh ideas on how to fix the rots in the system, salvage the country from the mess of corruption — and rescue it from the brink of destruction.
While the Beirut’s blast typified government entrenched flagrant disregard for precautionary measure despite years of warnings, that of Bornu and other war ravaged states in Nigeria shows the non-chalant and lukewarm attitudes of the country’s leaders to the plights of the people.
From worsening insecurity, skyrocket unemployment, beatification of ethnic chauvinists and adulation of religious bigots, the country, a resource rich and the continent most populous state tipped to lead Africa to the promise Land has indirectly led her people to hell and perdition with administrative malfeasance and mind blowing corruption almost across its strata.
Indeed, the political change that swept the country in 2015 has neither meet the yearning and aspirations of the people neither has the country’s infrastructural deficit and leadership incompetency being met to meet international standard. Except a drastic approach takes place in areas of insecurity, corruption, unemployment, education and other integral part of the country, happenings in Lebanon might just be a child play to what Nigeria might witness.
