Charly Boy has accused Nigerians of being the major problem which has led Nigeria to become what it is today.
As Nigerians all over the world celebrated our independence, Charly Boy shared his thoughts on the role of the citizens in the current state of the Nation.
In a chat with Punch,
the veteran musician expressed his disappointment in the citizens of
Nigeria and not the leadership as the majority of us are wont to do.
Charly Boy noted that
there was nothing to celebrate apart from the gift of life which is
God's doing and has nothing to do with Nigeria or Nigerians.
“What
are we celebrating? The only thing a Nigerian can be thankful for at
this time is the gift of life. All that is happening to us is our fault.
“Every
time we put the blame on the leaders, what about the followers? "These
leaders are not from Ghana or Togo; they are from among us. If we don’t
look like them, we should have resisted the policies that put us in this
kind of hopelessness and frustration.
“But
it is because we look like them, somehow we have the same mindset and
we are waiting for our own turn to embezzle when the opportunity comes,
that is why this situation is never going to change.
“Mark
my words; it is going to get worse before it gets better. If the masses
have become sheep, why are you blaming the leaders for being wolves?"
Charly
Boy blasted the Nigerian citizenry for it's docile and corrupt attitude
towards leadership as the present leaders were chosen from the masses.
He went on to say, “The
president keeps saying he is fighting corruption; maybe it is true that
he is fighting corruption but he is the only one shouting the
propaganda. I don’t see his ministers and cabinet members say the same
thing.
“Do they believe in that? They are
fighting corruption; are they saying that they have not been able to
prosecute and imprison one corrupt person so far? After one year?
“Do
we want to be deceived all our lives? It is not about Buhari or
Goodluck, what about us? We are very bad people and until we change,
things would not get better. The change is not going to come from above
or from Buhari, it would come when we change the way we think and hold
our leaders accountable for all the wrongs they have done.
“Until
we are ready for that, then nothing would change because these people
know that poverty has messed up the way we think. There is nothing to
celebrate except for us being alive and for that, say thank God. But for
how long would we do this?”
Charly Boy has always been very vocal about his opinions when it comes to politics and his bluntness always passes the message across as effectively a bee sting.
If
only these messages have done anything to improve the state of the
country but we can at least appreciate that a select few care enough to
speak up.
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