I am very happy for the young couple fulfilling their dreams of wedding each other; what I do not understand in this 21st century (2011) is how the "Royal" family can spend 48 million English Pounds lavishly on this wedding when many citizens are suffering without jobs in the British country of United Kingdom. How soon do we forget that this was the same people that colonized Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Kenya, Uganda, Rhodesia, South Africa, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, The Caribbean (West Indies) and many more; after taken our country from another colonized "Master" the Portuguese. Now, after ruling us tyranically, brutally, senselessly, stole majority of our artifacts, gold, oil, and many natural resources; we Nigerians steal our own money that we can use for the betterment of our people and take this money to the WHITE FOLKS that are already rich and hide it in their banks and buy lavish things instead of improving our own needed lifestyles, improving education, creating jobs for our youths, building manufacturing industries, developing new infrastructures and on and on. I do not support the wanton waste of money like that; but we Nigerians are terrible perpetrators of this nonsense. Spending maybe a million or two, I can understand, but wasting $55 million dollars (9 Billion Naira almost) on an ordinary wedding and taking the citizens of Britain and the Commonwealth for granted and kicking all the "commoners" in the behind. We are now seeing a lot of dissent and revolts in many parts of the world, especially in Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Jordan, Syria to name a few and most recent in Uganda. We need to think about this seriously and STOP UNDERRATING our youths who will be the leaders of tomorrow. The youths in Britain are watching and I heard from the news and some of my friends living in England that many people are being arrested for protesting about this lavish waste of money for this Royal wedding. The Pomp and Pageantry is fine and dandy, but what will be the long run effect of this archaic ways of royalty and monarchy cheating the mass? I guess all the kingship in the North, East, West and South of Nigeria should be having a second thought of how they treat the subjects that are under them. The need to start Creating needed JOBS, Providing continuous needed ENERGY, boosting MANUFACTURING of goods in all sectors, building our ROADS locally, nationwide and maintaining them, improving the EDUCATION and infusing HONESTY into our society; should be the prime change and focus of our leaders. Emulating the Royal Wedding and not taking care of our own backyard is not the best way to go. I am just expressing my own individual opinion about what I feel; don't let us GET STUCK ON STUPID; it is going to keep coming back to haunt us all.
| Posted: at 1-05-2011 10:36 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie |
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