Famous Nigerian Catholic priest, Rev Fr Chinenye Oluoma has suggested that Nigerians were obviously too naive to understand President Bola Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda.
Oluoma, who likened hope to anaesthetics, said anesthetics
was meant to numb the pain while the real life saving surgery takes place.
In a post on his Facebook page on Sunday, the cleric
lamented that naira, the nation’s currency, was strongly resisting every effort
to keep it below N1500 naira per dollar under the current government.
Oluoma noted that a loaf of bread that sold for N500 now sells for N1200 naira, while commodity prices have doubled, tripled and quadrupled as the case may be.
According to him, “Hope doesn’t put food on the table, hope
doesn’t pay school fees, hope doesn’t pay hospital bills, hope doesn’t pay
house rent (which landlords increase indiscriminately and govt ignores
infamously); Hope will not create jobs or make electricity supply constant.”
He continued, “The problem here is that successive
governments in Nigeria keep administering large doses of anaesthetics to us
without carrying out any curative surgery. Maliciously increasing the dosage
and frequency once we wake up from the effect of previous dosage.
“At worst, hope is an opium, a psychic drug that makes you
feel okay and patient, maybe even comfortable with all the things going wrong.
“It sedates you but doesn’t change your condition. So,
Tinubu offered us hope not jobs, not improved earnings, not stable electricity
or buoyant economy, he offered us hope and we bought it”.
Speaking further, Oluoma opined that ‘hope’ shouldn’t be
what politicians offer its citizens, adding that it should be left for clerics.
He stressed that a government should offer job
opportunities, not hope of jobs
“Hope shouldn’t be what politicians offer its citizens, it
should be left for clerics like my humble self. A government should offer job
opportunities, not hope of jobs.
“A government should offer security, power, housing,
affordable health care, education and not hope for these things. Why is Nigeria
the place where politicians preach like clergy men and clergy act like
politicians?
“While the former offer hope, the latter promise jobs,
prosperity and other material well being they are in no position and have no
capacity to give. What in God’s blue planet is going on with governance in
Nigeria?
“As long as the purchasing power of the poor masses keep
nose diving and the prices of basic goods and services keep skyrocketing
further beyond their reach, what we have is nothing but ‘Renewed Shege’.
“Each administration will always leave our currency weaker
than the previous one, a recurring decimal. One administration shows us Shege,
another one comes and renews it and we keep dying gradually in hope. Let the
poor citizens of Nigeria breathe, please.”
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