Friday, February 22, 2013

HUSTLERS CHRONICLES : Sun down,Tools Down

The rule of law in Nigeria has limit and period,like the age long adage; there's time for everything. In Nigeria,there's indeed time for everything,there are times to obey the law and also time not to.
Official hours in Nigeria is between 8am - 4pm,after this hours,the country is officially locked down. This lock down extends to all aspect of life,and the shocking one is security. Lets take the traffic laws as example, you and I knows that it's a free for all fight on our roads when the sun is down and the moon is rising ,this is due to non existence of traffic law enforcers on the roads. Every traffic law in Nigeria can be broken once its sundown because there are no security personnel to enforce this laws. The much publicized Lagos traffic laws ceases to exist after the official closing time of government,even the federal road enforcers ceases to operate outside the official hours. How many people have been arrested for driving offenses at night?,I doubt if any motorist can be arrested and charged for failing to wear seat belts at night. This can also be experienced in the health sector,where doctors are never available at the wee hours of the night to attend to emergencies. I guess we're familiar with the case of a man that lost his child because he waited endless for emergency ambulance to arrive. It took him 5 hours to get to the hospital which resulted in the death of the innocent child. The ambulance never came. There're lots of tale about accident victims dying slowly and painfully because all emergency operatives don't work round the clock. There was also a case of a commuter bus that plunged into a river from a bridge along Ijebu Ode - Ore- Benin road late at time,the passengers perished because rescue did not come until the following afternoon . It will be a waste of time enumerating people's experiences when they make SOS calls to security operatives at night,there's always an excuse,tale or mix-up on their part.
Now that most of our cities are planing on attaining Mega City statuses,they should have it in mind that that such feat can be achieved by round the Clock services to the citizens and locals. 8 hours of (inadequate) provision of services to tax payers out of 24 hours is gross incompetence from our leaders,it is there duty to be at our call round the clock.

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