Nobody’s land<\/p>\n
Nothing works here
\nThere are constant excuses for the never ending power outtages
\nFrom one breakdown or collapse or the other
\nThe future of the youths are traded on the altar of foreign loans
\nDebt servicing now the vogue
\nAdept at scratching the surface of the problem, never actually solving the problem
\nUniversity education stymied\u2026with students bemoaning their fate
\nLocal currency almost useless, daily being devalued
\nInflation at its zenith, for we cannot give what we do not have
\nFood production is threatened as farmers are either being kidnapped, killed or threatened
\nPeace is anathema here
\nLawlessness, social vices apparently given free rein
\nWomen are made husbandless
\nHusbands rendered wifeless
\nChildren made orphans with gunshots
\nWorship centres are filled, with people daily crying to their gods
\nYouths\u2026graduates roam the streets in their thousands in search of none existent jobs
\nThe civil service is filled\u2026to overflowing with the people who have \u2018connect\u2019
\nQuota system is slowly killing the morale of the populace as many feel very marginalised
\nAnyhowness describes this clime
\nPolitical prostitution now the order of the day
\nDesperate people\u2026desperately and avariciously and sometimes murderously clinging to the reins of power
\nAlmost as if it\u2019s their identity\u2026they cannot exist otherwise
\nRoad travel now a death wish as it is now an easy trap for kidnappers
\nThis marriage of convenience shakes\u2026as calamities accompany it
\nWhither Nobody’s land?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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