But what change do I see?

When Nigerians voted in Change in 2015 many thought that we'd bid farewell to poverty. Alas! It hasn't been all the change we yearned for. But it's been change somehow. Many Nigerians feed well now, thanks to many innovations in agriculture. But is food the only indicator of a robust economy? What about housing, transportation, education, technology? All these too have seen the Buharian change even if they haven't received much attention from his government.

I'm not interested in politics. I think that peace building is more important to me at this time but I think more of entrepreneurship these days when I'm not consumed by my unemployment. These days, I have kept busy with one project or another; I don't do idling. Oh! I can't stand idlers because they are troublemakers.

Change is good if it's good change. This one right now is bad change. Petty corruption is on the increase with itinerant prostitution becoming a vocation that young women in urban places engage in nowadays. I call them the 'I dey school' squad who live in several towns/cities claiming to be students of tertiary institutions. Many of their patrons are rich businessmen, the military and politicians who pimp them and use them to sell hard drugs. Many of them live the posh life in hotels while others could be your neighbour. I encountered some of them while attending UI almost two decades ago. Those would buy bed spaces for years from students who lived off campus or with relatives. School authorities knew about the menace and tried to stem the tide of campus prostitution but the girls were very cunning. They changed levels with real students and kept changing to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Many of them have 'graduated' school and work with arranged and forged certificates and identities. The deceit is golden; and the sabotage and blackmail play out in the cheap mafia. Married men have to protect wives and egos after all, she's a 'graduate.' Wetin she graduate?

Change is what everybody seeks when the times aren't good. Why change what's good? Improvement sets a good thing up for better but why fix it if it ain't broken? I want to know what we will be changing to in 2019 because what I have is a thief's or his thieving friend's change. As far as I'm concerned there's no change that has kept me going. As far as I'm concerned, this change has made me unemployed from federal to the local government. Governor Victor Ikpeazu of Abia state has conducted two inconclusive and shady recruitment exercises this year. None has been transparent. So whether it's APC or PDP change, I'm not keen anymore. The fox and the hyena know each other's antics, so why bother being the judge?

Change gave me golden corruption that I need to worry about for long. If cheap sluts are now capable of holding down the economy and society at the expense of a skilled workforce, we shall see where this Buharian change shall lead us, which is nowhere good. So, no change, please. Sing another song. Maybe mercy, or sorry? Imagine it with me: Mercy 2019, or Sorry 2019. Let's see what may change.