Sometimes I ask myself if our leaders truly understand the suffering of ordinary Nigerians or if they simply no longer care. Imagine a 5year old child dying because the parents could not afford just N5,000 for oxygen in a hospital. Think about that carefully. A human life gone, not because the illness was impossible to treat, but because poverty and a broken healthcare system stood in the way.
In Nigeria today, malaria now kills people like a firing squad simply because many families cannot afford drugs worth N1,500 or basic treatment. Hospitals lack equipment, patients are abandoned and many citizens are left to survive on luck and prayers while politicians fly abroad for medical care funded by taxpayers’ money.
The painful part is that this situation has slowly reduced the value of human life in our society. Poor people are dying from illnesses that should normally be treatable in any functioning country. Our healthcare system is not only failing, it is becoming cruel to the average citizen.
2027 is fast approaching, Nigerians need to seriously search their conscience. Do we truly want to continue with the same old system, the same recycled leadership and the same empty promises while people keep dying from preventable causes?
At some point, citizens must decide whether they want to protect the status quo or demand real change. The voter’s card should not just be for decoration, religious obligation or tribal loyalty. It should be a tool to hold leaders accountable and demand a country where basic healthcare is not a luxury only the rich can afford. A nation that cannot protect the health of its people is slowly losing its humanity.
In Nigeria the life of the citizens don't matter to the hospital management if you don't have money, you will see victims of gunshots that arise from robbery attacks and the Doctors on duty will ask you to get a police report before the dying person will be attended to and before you make provision for that the victim is already gone, our healthcare system is very poor to the extent that they don't have common antidotes for snake bites, it's really well with us.
Talking about 2027 elections, my question is who is going to be the Messiah that will deliver us from killings, hunger, kidnapping and unemployment?, because to me they are all birds of the same feathers, the only difference is that they defect to different parties but still have the same mindset which is to come into power steal public funds and enrich themselves. No one has the interest of the people at heart, is it Peter Obi or Rotimi Amaechi who are presidential candidates of their respective parties that will change the system?. Let's vote for our conscience and see what the future holds.
