The recent fuel price hike and
subsequent scarcity has got everyone in a tense mood, coupled with the
ban on commercial motorbikes (Okada) which has resulted in more traffic jams across a ‘mega city’ in the making.
Nigerian Soul-Pop singer Lami Phillips
seems to be one of the many Nigerians who’s not happy about the
situation and state of the nation in general. And she says Nigeria’s
first citizen Goodluck Jonathan ‘has failed as a president and leader’.
The lawyer expressed her mind on Instagram as she posted a photo showing a fleet of cars queuing at a fuel station.
‘It all seems bleak…this atmosphere
of frustration is saddening. Nigeria’s president may be good person but
in my humble opinion he has failed as a president and leader’, she wrote.
‘There are queues
everywhere…scarcity….no fuel…no diesel…no constant electricity. I often
wonder…if i am this frustrated with it all. How do those with no option
cope? Fashola’s ban of okadas may have been sensible but i wonder if the
timing was right… cos now some people have to pay double to get to work
with the fuel scarcity… The Nigerian systems just ain’t working…‘, she continued.
Lami was born in Chicago, Illinois,
where she spent her early years. She then moved back to Nigeria before
travelling to England in her teenage years and lived there for about
eleven years, later returning to and the United States. She completed
her BA (Hons) at University of Kent, and got her MA degree from the
University of Nottingham.
She also obtained an MBA from Pennsylvania State University before returning to Nigeria to pursue a career in music.
She released her debut ‘Intuition‘ in 2010.
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