A Nigerian Nollywood star, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde recently took to her Twitter page to tweet her unreserved spleen against the trend of the deficiencies by people at the helms and corridors of power in Nigeria.
From her tweets, it is that her protest stems a lot from the level of responsibility and poor leadership which irks her. She decried the activity of money politics which seems to have made everyone person with a position to watchdog the welfare and interests of the masses, silent.
“SHAME on those who worship money, forget their silent heroes n suck up to corrupt leaders n sell their voice! SHAME on you who only talks too”.
Her concerns for the welfare of the people are marked when she asks; “Are Nigerian ENTITLED to health care benefits? What’s the way forward from maternal mortality for a start?
Perhaps her core concerns are reflection of her feminist intuitions but it would appear that it is not limited to this. “SHAME on Humans who pledge to serve fellow humans, get in2 POWER n ignore their DUTIES, intimidate d citizens becomn headboys of local schools”. These appropriately translated to read ‘Shame on humans who pledge to serve fellow humans (and) get into power (and) ignore their duties, intimidate the citizens becoming head boys of local schools’.
She queries, “What is the primary JOB of a government?” and goes on to encourage people who share similar sentiments to tweet and sign on-line petitions and protests. “We trend with anything, we can with petitions”.
