Enemies Of Nigeria Poem by Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who send their children to school abroad
While the ones at home rot and decay.
In ill-funded dilapidated schools
That scorn knowledge and create poverty.

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who go for medical treatment abroad
To kill our clinics and hospitals,
Frustrate the doctors in our land
And empower lesser brains in the diaspora

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who loot our commonwealth
To develop mansions in the diaspora
While our villages are raped and wrecked
By flood, gulley erosion and penury.

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who spend wealth to buy private jets
And bullet-proof land cruisers;
Build tunnels and bunkers in their homes
To escape when they create calamities.

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who do not reckon with local news media
But crave for office to serve other nations
And announce their plans on foreign media.
To gain acceptance in foreign lands.

They do not love Nigeria
Who kill to get power,
Tempt and spoil our womanhood
With ill-gotten wealth.
And revel to defy the face of God.

They do not love Nigeria
Who mindlessly drive past little children
Sent to hawk on streets
By poverty and hunger
Created by politicians in power.

They do not love Nigeria
Who steal and peculate our national wealth
Take bribes from tax payers
To do the jobs they are paid to do.
And flaunt great wealth
In the midst of ravaging mass poverty.

They do not love Nigeria
Who filch away land to get rich
And destroy their poor owners;
Send many to their early graves
To declare power that bloodshed sustains.

They do not love Nigeria
Who bribe Judges to oppress the innocent
And buy off elected legislators
To pass anti-people laws
And sustain poverty in the land.

They do not love Nigeria
Who terrorise the land
With guns, machetes and bombs
To oppress freedoms
Our polity is meant to uphold.

They do not love Nigeria
Who accept money and gifts
From desperate cabals
To vote for evil leaders
And rig elections for them.

They do not love Nigeria
Who embezzle public funds
Meant for farming and farmers
To stave mass hunger
That douses mass discontent.

They do not love Nigeria
Who buy rovers, land, estates,
And mansions across the land
While the majority of our people
Lack shelter and live under bridges.

They do not love Nigeria
Who for greed, amass wealth
For their yet unborn children
Thus depriving the living of good life,
And creating urchins across the land.

They do not love Nigeria
Who seek political power
To oppress justice and play god
In the lives of men and women
Who toil and labour without gain.

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who feed fat on loot and graft,
And either lie, or shut their mouths
Like ‘good' Africans of the new world
Who must not talk while ‘chopping'.

They do not believe in Nigeria,
Who give nothing to her, but take all
To keep our nation marching backwards
While they revel in foreign lands
Made from the sweat of patriots.