Oh Nigeria

Oh! Nigeria Those were sons and daughters of men, Who died fighting for their rights in their fatherland. Sons and daughters of the soil hose whose rights and voices have been taken away. “Arise, O. compatriots” When we don’t have food to keep us alive; yet when we tried to rise, We got shoot at, locked up in chains irons and thrown in jail. “Nigeria’s call obey” When the leaders have clearly disobeyed and hard shut us up; With guns and soldiers ordered to shoot us all. “To serve our fatherland” Yet, youth corpers are been killed in the North. And all the government can do is to tell us to make friends with bandits, if kidnapped or tell our parents to keep our ransom. “With love and strength and faith” We can’t give what we do not have, how can they tell us love, when our siblings have been killed, some tortured, while others jailed for an act they did out of love and service of their fatherland. Or strength, when our minimum wage, can’t buy us a bag of rice to eat, or when we’re not adequately remunerated for the service rendered. Or our teachers’ salary being withheld. Where then will the strength come from? Faith, when cost of living keep rising and the standard of living falling to the depth, with no measures taken to put things in place. Hope is dead and faith seems not to exist, as thing keep getting worse by the passage of time. “The labor of our heroes past shall never be in vain” Yes, it’s not in vain, but the fruits of the labors have been eaten up men who we placed over it. And still tell us to arise o. compatriots. “To serve with heart and might” The servants now serve with greed, leaving those who did with their hearts and might hungry and can’t even get a good treat for a job well done at the end of their service.