Thread by @DrOlusesan

A NATION OF SELF HATRED
No matter how long you have lived abroad, your mind will never stop pondering at the mess we collectively made ourselves into, both govt and citizens alike. I typically don't like tweeting about it because of the showoff perception it may probably create.

Pictures above are Services Parks created along a major highway, M4 to Wales from London. There are many signs warning motorists to take a break at the service parks. Our bus drivers have killed many interstate travellers due to deliberate disregard for fatigue as a driving risk.

It got so bad that govt started considering giving guns to Road Safety Officers. Every enforcement in Nigeria is punitive, well rightly so because many behave like goats. Villain and victims. SARS didn't fall from heaven. They are people's depraved uncles, cousins and parents.

There isnt a single public convenience built by govt, driving from Lagos to Onitsha. I've heard stories of journeying travellers peeing on their bodies because drivers refused to stop. Its either drivers plan to complete a quick trip turnaround for money or fear of armed robbers.

Women flip open bare buttocks on d highway, after holding a full bladder for hours. Females caping with wrapper like batman next to men flipping their penis is an eyesore we are all familiar with. That lady that posted about bread-cut probably "shyte" in d bush on her way to Ife.

If a state govt eventually decides to spare remnant of the public funds that wasnt shared as largesse and a service park is built, the image of the few garages and petrol stations along Sagamu-Ore Highway should show you how collectively incapable we are, mentally, as a people.

Mechanic will convert part of d space. Osi will eat puffpuff and throw d squeezed newspaper out of the window.
Men will urinate on their car tyre. If u dare tell a Nigerian he is urinating in a wrong place, there are hundred others waiting to justify it as poverty caused by govt.

If we cant generate electricity, how hard can it be to build, use properly and maintain public conveniences? Ambode built these toilets. A road side trader related to the garage chairman of Ojodu Berger NURTW converted the one at Berger to her store, where she keeps unsold wares.

I took it upon myself to fight to retrieve the toilet and the question on everybody's lips is how is it my business. There's hardly any specified desk through which one can report people who destroy public property. An all inclusive societal conspiracy that ensures nothing works!

If we see ourselves as jointly accountable for public infrastructure, we'd know how d solar street lights Mimiko installed on Oyemekun Akure disappeared.
We want good public amenities but we dont give a damn if others put 'em to misuse. Wetin concern us. Na to waka pass. We move!