The Scars of Poverty

The screeching of tortured tyres, the frantic slamming of an automobile brake and the booming thud of a human anatomy sent me racing towards the picture of the episode. Some of people had also heard the deafening sound and had stuffed around mumbling curses under their breath.Laying in the pool of his body, was a kid of about eight yrs old. An old, chopped plastic holder lay close to his blood-soaked head and lying in groups were five items of cake each linked in a clear polythene bag. A look into him explained he was dead.A woman pushed her way through the sea of individuals and let out an earsplitting, nerve breaking scream; she acquired the child and shouted in a frenzied voice, "who did this? Amos you can't die, you're my only child." She rolled on the tarmac, slamming her hand on the blood stained tar. It took half dozen men to sedate and pull her far from the corpse of her only child.It was a horrible look, the daughter or son was a hawker, and he had been hawking cake and on that fateful evening he had raced off to market to a driver who'd beckoned him and in the mission of wanting to overcome his colleagues to the purchase had entered in to the main road ignorant of the automobile that sent him to an unforeseen death.In Nigeria, a region blessed with numerous mineral resources, such sorry views stare the residents in the face straight. This is named 'SON or daughter ABUSE.'Who was the culprit for the early death of this promising little boy? He was encouraging as far as I know; every individual carried of a woman is important and must be given the opportunity to show their significance, however, not as hawkers. Would one be wrong when they blamed the child for perhaps not being thorough enough or should the guilt go to her only child was allowed by his mother who go hawking although understanding the coming problems the child was confronted with Get the facts. But what chance does an individual parent without a lucrative job have in raising her son the right way without upsetting or breaking the regulations governing child abuse; or must the government be blamed for plunging more than half the Nigerian population to poverty. Data show that half of the country's resident lives below the poverty line. Just poverty may have created the woman commit baby abuse ignorantly or nonchalantly.Nigeria was surrounded in a, sulphuric haze of fear, doubt, uncertainty, instability and impending loom of unparalleled disaster during the long military era. The dispensation had set the economy in circumstances of continuous decay and decadence with military head of claims embezzling and stacking the country's profit bank accounts outside the shores of the nation, and rampant deaths of weight groups.In the year 1999 when the military era gave method to democracy controversially due to the death of General Sani Abacha there were wide smiles on the faces of all Nigerians. It was an important time for Nigerians, the chaotic condition in the place made everyone pray for a change; a remarkable and if possible major change.Two men contested for the warm seat but one was very favoured; maybe because he was a military head of state who paid to a in the year 1979 or maybe because he escaped death by the whiskers after being incarcerated by the Abacha government. He was released from prison and paraded as a prospect on when all and sundry thought he'd be accomplished, the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) platform. This created Nigerians think he was the messiah; the one who can ease and ameliorate the sufferings and hibernated situations of the masses and the economy.Read the concluding part of this information next distribution