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There is a country	A
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Where Graduates flood the labour market yearly	A
With the hope of getting employed one day	B
While the elites' undergraduate children are paid monthly	A
They are on the payroll even before their convocation day	B
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There is a country	A
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Where only the elites and their children work in NNPC	C
But only to end up in the office of the ICPC	C
Or caught in the net of the eagle eyed EFFC	C
Because of the palms they do grease	D
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There is a country	A
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Where little children roam the street as Almajiris	D
Food education and shelter none they have	E
What does the future holds for the Almajiris	D
With a plate of jollof rice today next is at Boko Haram cave	F
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There is a country	A
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Where thugs fight and kill one another	G
All because of political actors	D
And not because to put that country in order	G
In absence are the children of those political actors	D
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There is a country	A
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Where youths want to ride benz	D
Stealing women undies and eating faeces like it's a garden cress	D
Hunting for new diabolical means en masse	D
Making themselves to be to the society a mess	D
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There is a country	A
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Where traders accurately measures in your presence	D
On reaching home you asked the essence of your presence	D
Wondering how the measure was manipulated	H
Not knowing their measures have been cut or boiled	I
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There is a country	A
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Where businessmen are happy making others unhappy	A
Inflating prices after a long term hoarding	C
In the suffering of others they are happy	A
But when it expired or destroyed they are lamenting	C
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There is a country	A
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Where security personnels are fearful brave patriots	D
Brave in their mind to go and confront insecurity	A
But lack weapons and morale to die as patriots	D
And fearful about their children's educational security	A
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There is a country	A
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Where government and workers are always not at par	J
Strike has become a normal thing yearly	A
Workers living like those behind bars	D
Patients and students are at the receiving end mostly	A
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There is a country	A
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Where students want to pass without reading their books	D
Person wey know his way na him know book	C
Campuses are dens for drug addicts and cult members	D
And abodes for slay mamas smouldering like embers	D
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There is a country	A
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Where lecturers lay with their daughters' age mates	D
While their daughters are locked behind their gates	D
They cajole female students that life is give and take	C
Not thinking about the struggles behind educating that life at stake	C
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There is a country	A
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Where her tourist sites are mosques and churches	D
Citizens attend daily and hourly service at her mosques and churches	D
But their acts aren't in tandem with any religion	K
Kidnapping murder and terrorism in different region	K
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There is a country	A
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Where clerics no longer preach about good virtues	D
They have become Marabouts for corrupt officials lacking virtues	D
And a safe haven for armed robbers cultist and kidnappers	D
They are accomplices of ritual killers and kidnappers	D
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There is a country	A
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Where husbands are busy drinking and their wives busy partying	C
Leaving their children under the care of housemaids	D
Husbands treating their wives like chattels or maids	D
Because of the exorbitant bride price or they met while partying	C
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There is a country	A
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Where parents failed to train their children	K
And families failed to chide their wards	D
The untrained children are now threat to all electoral wards	D
The old and young are now leaving in fear of those untrained children	K
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There is a country	A
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Where artisans promise and fail like they are Satan's mentor	L
To get your cloth ready on time you must lie to your tailor	G
Going to a mechanic's workshop there is fear of fueling your vehicle	M
Attempts to outsmart them is like running round in a circle	M
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There is a country	A
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Where greedy men hooked up sugar mummies claiming destitution	K
And female money grubbers have resorted to prostitution	K
After several abortions they accused their village people of infertility	A
While some end up dramatising on the street in nudity	A
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There is a country	A
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Where small small children are heavily smoking	C
Gambling drinking and harassment are now the day's order	G
And when penniless they resort to stealing	C
Are these the future leaders to put the country in order	G
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There is a country	A
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Where government officials are lords	D
They bottleneck the already bottlenecked bureaucracy	A
If you don't drop something you can't get a nod	N
But they'll be the first to criticise the government of democracy	A
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There is a country	A
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Where every citizens is playing the blame game	O
Without thinking about how to change the game	O
We must redefine our identity before it escalates to another level	M
Let us grow the country so as to move on to the next level	M

Taofeeq B. Ajadi

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