Nigeria: a nation of strange ironies

Countrymen, our's is truly a nation of strange ironies, how can a people who are often too scared to fight against corruption, against oppression and against poverty be so brave to scoop and fetch fuel from Hell; Jesse on my mind, a small town in Delta State (where over 1000 people were burnt to death about a decade ago whilst scooping fuel from a broken pipeline), besetting the carapace of my mind also is today's Port Harcourt tragedy where over a 100 citizens have been burnt to ashes whilst scooping fuel from a broken tanker, ALJAZEERA blames it on poverty, some say it is outright madness; whichever position you take, methinks that if poverty has made our people daringly senseless, insane, profane and mundane, why cant we address this bravado at a rulership that has brought us untold hardship and poverty, like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and presently Syria, why cant we choose to die nobly and not ignobly as fuel scoopes and thieves. Why cant we fight poverty and die as martyrs, WHY? If we can dare death for a gallon of fuel WHY cant we dare it to salvage our CHIlDREN and POSTERITY from the abyss of poverty, of Golgotha and of senseless death. May GOD help us. VIVA NIGERIA. - Dr. Chris Nwaokobia Jnr.