By JOSEPH ALIU

The question I have continued to ask myself and even answered the question which still begs for answer is whether or not, during festive periods, one must in local terms, put a large pot on fire to prepare local delicacies?

Alas!, the average local man and the elite, in order to put up a ceremony, must practically get loads of firewood, get a large pot, and gather cooking ingredients for local delicacies to make sure that their ceremony meets the Nigerian conventional standard.

Worryingly and most disturbing, the current festive celebration is being greeted with empty pots. The average Nigerian cannot gather together cooking ingredients/items to celebrate the festive period due to hike in goods and commodities, leaving their cooking pots totally clean, dry and empty.

The above situation, speaks volume of the current depreciating Nigerian economy and the very high cost of living within the Nigerian metropolis.

It Is not just terrible, but totally shameful that the average Nigerian cannot put together cooking items to celebrate the festive period.

The Nigerian government should cover its face in shame for not being able to make sure that its citizens are able to feed well, not just on any other day, but a festive period at that.

Yes, the situation is that bad. For a people not to feed well and to celebrate a festive period in hunger when it has a government, calls for serious concern.

The Nigerian peoples must retrace its steps and go back to the drawing board to see where they have gotten it wrong, as this current occurrence is a prophecy of the impending doom that is about to befall it in subsequent months.

We cannot continue like this anymore. Enough is enough. The Nigerian peoples cannot keep working like an elephant and eat peanuts like an ant. The narrative must be changed.

Nigerians must totally say goodbye to the full blown Thomas Hobbes era, wherein man in nature was solitary, nasty, brutish and short, and struggle for a society wherein they can get the values’ worth of their everyday transaction.

•Joseph Aliu is a Human Rights Activist, Social Commentator and Legal series Analyst @OgunWatchNg and can be reached via 09131704196, 09085773212, aliujoseph085@gmail.com