The highest level of distraction.

You know those times in churches during the prayer sessions when they tell you to rise and pray for yourself, cos you are the only one that knows where the pain is or where your back is scratching you. Well, I guess I could relate it to the Nigerian situation. As much as we blame the government for the economic or security issues facing us, we tend to waste our time this cos our aches and pains aren't theirs.
   Even the so called mediators that are expected to keep the president in check can't help us cos we also have issues with them. Issues ranging from the amount of money spent on each of them per year to the fact that their positions are more like part time jobs, that they only go to when it pleases them.
Many a time have we complained about the decisions that they make but no matter the number of times we complain, nothing get done, thus still leaving us in the same state of dissatisfaction.
   In 2011, when the house of senate passed the gay rights bill,  I was and still am totally with them on it because between me and you I don't understand what gays enjoy and I seriously doubt if I could tolerate gays either. I also don't find fault in the them wanting to give a prison sentence of 20 years to whoever is found guilty. Where I do find fault  is them not giving the same sentence to politicians found guilty of electoral malpractice or misappropriation of funds.
Well who am I to expect that they would prepare and hand over the noose that the hangman would likely use on them, rather they decided to bring Nigeria under unnecessary international attention. It appeared that while they were passing the bill they did not take into cognizance the international human rights charter that Nigeria is a part. And of which gay rights is also a part of.
   Am quite certain that if they had passed that prison term to politicians, the Nigerian people who voted them into office would have held them in high esteem, looking upon their tenure as the set of people that dared to do what others couldn't.
 I decided to relate this issue with what I had seen in a movie a long time back. The basic lesson I want to derive from the movie is that the dictator in the movie in order to divert the attention of his subjects on the level of poverty that existed in the society which originated from his ineffectiveness and corruption, thus he chose to sponsor a sporting game of death that the people loved, thereby giving the dictator leeway to carry on as he pleased. In order to ensure that they were in a continued state of frenzy, he went all the way to capture slaves that had tremendous fighting potential, going ahead to promise the slaves freedom if they could survive several bouts of the death matches. To me this movie could be equated to that of the senators, who approve bills that would serve as a diversion from them having to approve bills that need to be passed into law.
   My initial thought was to relate this with the sponsorship of football in Nigeria and how at a point it was used to divert attention from the ridiculous levels of looting that's going on, because of how Football serves as a major unifying factor in Nigeria. But owing to the lackluster performance of the super eagles in present times that strategy can't work anymore. Presently, they really don't care whether you are distracted or not, they just keep on looting even while our eyes are wide open, it doesn't really matter anymore, because even if you do to come close to exposing them, then hey thumbs up to you bro, cos you might either get a shit load of money or an appointment that would shut you up or you would find yourself six inches in dirt.