The middle class in any society is regarded as ‘the salt of life’. Without it, society decays. Often made up of youths with university degrees, they constitute the bulk of bureaucrats, professionals including doctors, lawyers, journalists, university teachers, accountants, engineers etc. It carries the awesome responsibility of designing and constructing the roads we traverse, the dams that supply our drinking water, finding solution to physical and psychological ailments and determining the quality of the education our children receive. In return for their immeasurable services to humanity, all it ever asks for its highly trained members are freedom and security to plan their lives, own houses even if through mortgage, receive non-slave wages that guarantee a decent living and ability to send their children to good schools with some savings for their old age.

Some of our uninformed ministers who today celebrate $24b diaspora funds, while ignoring the repatriation of over $25b as profit back to the west by multinationals share the same mind-set with our forebears who traded our middle class for mirrors, spirits and horses during slavery, a synonym for globalization.

Unfortunately, some of our round pegs in square holes of ministers only provide additional incentive for our qualified professionals to flee the country.

https://thenationonlineng.net/politicians-and-middle-class-exodus/

The citizens will still queue behind exploiters, looters & deceivers in 2023.
Oh God of creation! Help our youth, the truth to know.

Any politician that patronizes foreign education, healthcare, goods and services cannot be trusted to develop the critical sectors that will help Nigeria grow.

Our problem is multi-faceted.
China and India started with patronising homemade 'inferior' goods and services.
They learnt from their mistakes, and moved on to improve every sector.
Unfortunately our leaders and celebrities don't patronise made in Nigeria.

Our taste for foreign goods and services killed our education, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. Thus, reduction in employment opportunities for our youths.

We desire a working system but indirectly destroy our own.
We mostly perform well in systems we don't fully control.

The Trinity Square
Insecurity, Poverty and Unemployment.
Exploitation, Sabotage and Embezzlement.