Nigeria is a country that has people of great minds both in reasoning and in creativity. Being creative can only yield fine output when put into productive work. However, sometimes creativity can be applied in a negative sense, in which case it becomes destructive.
When one becomes creative with ideas of development and possible ways to curb corruption, crime, insecurity, youth restiveness, incessant strikes,child trafficking, militancy, terrorism etc, the person is said to be positively creative.
In a situation where a supposed creative person directs his whole ideas on such things as telling fantastic lies even when he knows he's telling lies but he still wants to force the entire masses to believe his lies, we can say that the person is a fantastic liar.
"It takes a lie to protect another lie as to produce another lie in form of another lie because another lie is coming to make the first lie another lie."
Ataisi Frank Jr
This is just so true because the so called media spokespersons and information agents are basically dwelling on the structure of lies as it will suit them and give them a defensive stand at that point in time thereby telling further lies to defend the previous lies when it has expired.
A case study of a fantastic and hypocritical lie is the case of Nigeria's fuel subsidy movie.
In 2012, the previous administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan announced the removal of fuel subsidy. According to him, it was to facilitate the growth of the country's economy and other notable developmental projects to be carried out. But for a typically Political Nigeria, the political heavyweights who belonged to the opposition and wanted power by all means, who also had creative people seized the opportunity to mobilise the entire Nation to organize the 'Occupy Nigeria's protest that shook the entire nation for about two weeks or there about.
To the entire Nation, it (the strike) was the best thing to do for the betterment of the Nation. Goodbluck Jonathan being a Democrat, felt the pain of his people, hearkened to them and reversed the pronouncement to a better and manageable one.
Today Nigeria is faced with same fuel subsidy issue as it faced in 2012. But what do we have? The same people who opposed it in 2012 with their blood, are backing it up today with the same reason given by the previous administration for the removal of the subsidy, thus making them ''THE FANTASTIC HYPOCRITES''
In 2012, organized Labour as they would be referred to unanimously held the nation to a standstill which even led to loss of lives and properties.
Today organized labour is now disorganized labour as different factions have emerged from the National down to grassroot level with NUPENG & PENGASSEN disowning the Ayuba Wabba led NLC.
How do we describe this? Bribery, corruption, hypocrisy, power hunger or politics. YES Politics it is. But I think it's not worth politicking with.
A sitting governor who was once a labour leader, who also opposed the 2012 subsidy removal came up with a pronouncement of 'No work no pay' policy putting his employees under pressure.
Another sitting minister whose ministry is supposed to give hope to the common man yesterday made a decree that any worker who stays out of work as a result of the strike will pay a fine of #100,000 (one hundred thousand Naira) or face 6 months jail sentence. What sort of a democratic government will do that? Or are we in another military era? I call this hypocrisy of the first order.
Trying to make your office relevant by deceiving the masses is not and cannot be a way out of a problem but will only foster a National embarrassment which we cannot afford to add to the ones we've been going through for some time now
Leaders are to make their offices positively relevant and not the other way round.
''Hypocrisy is when you probe the campaign funds of a political party that organized fund raising which was aired on National TV and do not bother to ask how your own campaign funds came about''.
Let Nigerians rise up to defend their cause because no country will do it for them
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