Worsening Situation In Nigeria: Famous actor, Dike Osinachi, compares life in Dubai (Video)
Story from Bernice EKE and Onyinyechi IHEANACHO
Dike Osinachi, a popular Nigerian actor and comedian who travelled to Dubai recently has compared the standard of living over there to Nigeria in a video he shared on his Instagram page.
In the video, he said in Dubai you cannot see anyone making use of a generator, as everywhere is so calm, and the environment is cool and beautiful.
“When will Nigeria be like this?”, he asked.
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Osinachi said one can live a long life while living in such environments, no queuing up to buy fuel, everything is in place and the government making lives easy for the people.
“Why won’t you reach 200 years? If you are in Nigeria and live up to 70 years and die, they will say the person tried but here (Dubai) you can live long; no noise, there is peace of mind, see the ambience, see roads…”
There is a general belief among citizens that the country’s situation has worsened since 1960 when it got independence from Britain and as a result of the poor health care, poor education, dearth of infrastructure, high rate of unemployment and so on in the country, many Nigerians have continued to seek greener pastures abroad.
For instance, according to a report of September 2017, published by the House of Commons Library in February 2018, about 5,405 Nigerian health practitioners were working in England.
More than 7 in 10 Nigerians (73 per cent) have said they would relocate abroad with family members if they had an opportunity, a new survey published has found.
This is a whopping 41 percentage point increase from citizens who were hoping to emigrate in 2019, when only about a third of citizens (32 per cent) said they were willing to relocate with their families out of Nigeria.
Chairman of the National Consultative Front (NCFront) and leader of the shadow cabinet of a coalition of political parties and civil society organisations (CSOs), Professor Pat Utomi, had urged Nigerians living abroad to see it as their duty to ensure a new leadership and progress in Nigeria, stressing that the most populous Black nation needs a leadership that “will remove the shame of Nigeria’s current failing status brought about by pervasive poverty, insecurity, state capture, atrocious healthcare, declining education and corruption.”
He said Nigerians in Diaspora ought to consciously engage in a change in Nigeria as their Indian colleagues did in the electoral coup that broke up the old-styled Indian politics and brought Prime Minister Nehindra Modi to power.
A publication of the Africa Polling Institute (API) urged the Nigerian government to create a National Cohesion Commission tasked with ensuring that “all policies and activities of government have components within them that create a sense of belonging, promotes trust, fosters inclusive governance, and continuously offers citizens opportunities for upward mobility.”
It added that the Nigerian government needs to forge a new national movement for Nigeria and Nigerians in form of a “new Nigerian Dream” that promotes unity, oneness and peaceful co-existence amongst citizens.
It suggested that institutions like the Ministry of Information and Culture, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and their affiliates “has an increasing role to play, in shaping and amplifying narratives that help to promote social cohesion, inclusion and unity.
“Religious and ethnic leaders should mitigate against hate speech, discrimination and hostility at the community level since they are closer to the people and citizens has more trust in them, as evident in the findings,” API said in the statement signed by API’s executive director, Bell Ihua.
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