You need a public analyst for free? Simple. Visit the nearest newsstand
any business day of the week.
But, Monday
to Sunday is business day, 24/7 in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and other
major cities in Nigeria. Yes, in my village it may not. I do not know about
you.
Therefore, to hire an analyst, visit any newsstand
around you, pretend to be reading newspapers and magazines after tipping the vendor
N50 and you will get to listen to all sorts of cheap, mostly uniformed talks.
At Iyana-Ipaja
bus-stop in Lagos, close to the makeshift police post, where the armoured
personnel carrier (not APC) is parked ready for ‘war’, with potential criminals,
there is an old-man selling newspaper near the place.
As early as
7a.m, all sorts of people-the good, bad, ugly, illiterate, educated, informed,
uniformed, meet there to talk on all the
wrong moves Muhammed Buhari has made
since he floored Goodluck Jonathan
at the presidential poll.
Some will swear
that they regret voting out Jonathan and voting in Buhari, after they sang Sai Baba, Sai Buhari to high heavens.
These analysts
know all the corrupt persons in Nigeria and how much each of these persons has stolen.
But, I am sure most of them are jobless, hungry and therefore frustrated and
angry with the system.
Like some
attention seeking pastors, the newsstand commentators, could predict doom for
our political leaders from the local through to state and federal levels.
They could swear
by God, Allah, Sango or whatever they belief in that Nigeria, our beloved
country is doom to fail. It is not our portion in Jesus name, AMEN.
Tuesday, I
was passing though the bus-stop and decided to listen to our free public
analysts. Some of them talked on what they know little or nothing about.
One of the analysts,
who claim to be a trader at Alaba international market, Ojo, Lagos lamented
that the Buhari-led regime has ruined traders with his change mantra that is
not putting money in the pockets of people to patronize them.
The wretched
looking Alaba trader abused the Buhari-led government for the recession Nigeria
and Nigerians are presently passing through.
Recession is
a natural period of economic doom. We also have periods of economic boom.
These
doom and boom are caused by Buhari, Jonathan, this writer, the alaba trader and
most of the estimated 180million people living and doing business in Nigeria.
How? When we
fail to buy made-in-Nigeria products and instead prefer imported ones, when we
life above our means in the name of showing off, when we cut corners to make
money by fire by force, we are contributing out quota to economy recession.
This may be the some of the reasons our import-export scale is 95% to 5%.
This is what
I told my alaba trader friend and he called for my head at the bus-stop. He
told me point-blank that I know nothing about economy.
This is even
as he was speaking disjointed English, knocking present tense and past tense
together and claiming to have gone to school.
Some of the
people that visit newsstands are informed. Most of them are jobless, attention
seeking analysts who known every wrong moves Buhari, Jonathan, Trump and other
leaders have made.
They know
little or nothing about all the wrong moves that have made in the past and are
still making. This writer is not perfect. No one is. But, like AMORC will say, Man,
know thyself.
It is not
only at Iyana-Ipaja bus-stop you see them. Go to Ogba, Pen Cinema, Yaba,
Ojuelegba, toll gate, Marina, Ikoyi, Obalende, etc they are there-morning till
evening, talking, analyzing and propounding theories that do not add up. Freedom
of speech in action.
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