This is India and not Nigeria where a culture of fiscal impunity and wastages thrives

Oh yes! This is India and not Nigeria where a culture of fiscal impunity and wastages thrives. This is a gutsy nation with a blooming knack for self-reliance, national and international identity. Mr President was cart-driven at the airport and so what? In "Western Germany" was he not driven with Obama et al? India should go get an airport Limo because 'Gesus of Daura' is back with his ledger right? You think India cannot afford the fanfare? Know it, I will lift you with wheel barrow if you land in the South East because all the federal roads here are not motorable. India must be a paradise, anyway.

Good. This golf-cart is 'Made in India', the keke napep that both of us patronizes is 'Made in India', the industrial diesel engine that some of us use to power this dark country and businesses is 'Made in India', the drugs that you are treated with is 'Made in India', for medical tourism you run to India, the submersible and non-submersible machines that pump water in your house/locality is 'Made in India', and for ladies, your saree/sari is "Made in India". And, they are not apologetic about their brands and patents too, they flaunt them! But here, all locally fabricated rubber sandals, Aba shoes and suits all struggle to wear "Made in China" stickers.

If you missed it again, India is passionate about their technology, local content and foreign policy. All these things are made in India because they have the will to produce and market technologies internationally too with comparative advantage of cheap labour. Most populous black nation right? What are we doing with our human advantage? Cursing and making divisive posts on social media. Like China, Like India; that is how a society grows. Dear Aba folks, print "Made in Aba" on that suit and I will buy it a hundred times! You end up causing confusion for us at the market place and we keep buying inferior Italian/Turkish suits! Nonsense!

Nigeria shall be better a better place when we muster the courage to construct a wheel barrow and use it to lift anyone within the Airports and within Aso Rock. It takes a lot of guts to own national/international presence and we do not have it yet. Did you notice the fiscally/physically modest seats they sat on? That seat belongs to the late 80 and early 90s. My father owned a set that we discarded in late 2000s. That treat defines the class of leader I want to have no matter his age. The Indian leader is not a bomboy too. Today, go get registered and get a party card. No problem, join Fanichrophone's PDP or Laichrophone's APC. Power is sought not given!

But, why are we like this? Una dey produce Limo? Una get handwork wey no be crude? Alright fine, continue hailing the Wike-d man and Akpabio, continue hailing Mr eloquence and Mr beauty of Edo. Keep dying unsung on the streets obeying the whims and caprices of foreign/local based ragamuffins. We do not even have the numbers that died genuinely not to talk about quasi-terrorists. In your school, do you have ordinary internet wifi service? This is a commodity that market women and men need not to talk about a full fledged student. Is your school livable? If you are an artisan, do you have steady power supply? Yet you want Buhari lifted on airplanes. Rounded mugu! Don't face our common enemy (bad governance) you hear? Keep cursing the North and keep hating the South. The fact is that the way we build Nigeria is the way shall stay here.

In the final note, basic economics will prove to you that there cannot be a warring North and a peaceful South and vice versa. Who is at the receiving end? The last time I appraised the budget, close to a billion was spent on purchasing new vehicles for "Elder statesmen" while the schools including the Universities are in shambolic state. Youth, you get job? Encourage them to buy more Limos. Stop waiting for change. Change yourselves. Wake up! Nigerian "youth bulge" is being grossly underutilized. The only time they need your numbers in during the elections. Infiltrate the parties, take over the positions and seek for opportunities to serve! A recent demographic analysis that I carried out for Enugu city revealed that a paltry 3% of the urban population belong to ageing class.

Be answering pastors, do not read your books in their slummy schools and come out to enhance wailing. India, una no get basket? NonsenseNonsense

Written by: Alvan Chinagorom