‘Thanks But No Thanks’ To The “Kind Gestures” By Nigerian Elite Politicians, Billionaires & Pastors

To whom much has been given, much ought to be given back. No one made themselves in Nigeria, everyone was made on the back of our nation’s wealth through the various influences they were exposed to.

Those who did not take directly from source managed to convince our already impoverished peoples to hand over to them from the little they survive with, taking advantage of our people’s religiosity.

Where have they been all these years? The Medicare challenge they are all now donating funds to sort out has always been there. They have only managed to turn a blind eye.

They abandoned it all because they all had alternatives. These donations are only a panic measure by them to protect themselves and those close to them since they cannot revert to their standard alternative plans.

Things are so bad, even our country’s first lady cried out three years ago about the non availability of ordinary syringes in our presidential hospital.

[No single syringe, others in Villa clinic – Aisha Buhari]

They had no x-ray machines too. How then could they have thought of the day when there would be a pandemic that would require ventilators to assist breathless patients.

I won’t say much but if these people have been living their lives like the rest of us, they would have known these basic things are a luxury in our hospitals. They would have known that when you or any of your loved ones end up in a hospital in Nigeria you resign to fate, hope and prayers.

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You must buy your own syringes, bloods, pay for your own tests, pay special fees for surgery, pay for oxygen and you must have foot soldiers who will take your test results back and forth between laboratories and the wards for the doctor’s reading and interpretation.

Our realities are absolutely ridiculous. I know for a fact because I’ve been there, I’ve had to worry about my loved ones and the level of Medicare they receive from our nation’s hospitals.

I have not even talked about the mortality rate during child birth in Nigeria. These people have been there all these years, why didn’t we declare this state of emergency on our health systems?

Loots were recovered, hundreds of millions of dollars, all the nonsense we hear are those depressing headlines that “millions of people have been taken out of poverty by this government” what is that shit! That is the most dodgy and unimaginative thing any government can say, that returned looted funds have been distributed to individuals?

What the heck! What happened to building world class hospitals in every geo zone of our nation? How is that not even a priority when we have a president who spent almost three years of his first term in office in foreign nations getting Medicare?

If you don’t fix ours, how can it work when you need it? You have all failed us. You have indeed for almost six decades. Shame on you all.