A Nation Without Citizens Poem by Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna

A giant stride without Elders
Bottled in wisdom and intellect
Yet firing hot shots banana stems
Quench with sizzling marsh
While gliding with disendowed
And expired sacred intellectuals
Who hold in bad trust brains and skills
Of dislodged Youths bred in hunger
Buttered in denial of fundamental rights
In the orgy of professional thuggery with looting
Suffused of Alibaba and the Forty glorious thieves
Avowed with certified stone heads
Quota system Professors
Adore and adorn with sycophancy
In the deep painful pangs of poverty And deprivation in dry unwatered land.
Amidst the sore affluence of six inch rulers
That in their wickedness and insensitivity
Measure wealth in greed and ostentation.

Today, Nigerians swim naked in watery pooh
E'en as knowledge is powerless in their paradise of graft.
Youths have been sold
for a grain of plastic rice
E'en as Posterity wails ahead
in devastating and enslaving debt.

ⒸVOA - 16 May,2026