02/04/2026
“Borrow-borrow” is not a policy. It is a sickness.
Pidgin never lies.
We say “cry-cry” for the child who knows nothing but tears.
We say “walk-walk” for the one who has lost their home.
So when we say “borrow-borrow” —don’t pretend it’s normal.
It’s a diagnosis.
It means we have lost the ability to create.
We now survive on habit. On sedatives called loans.
They are coming again.
Another $6 billion proposal.
New slides. New “big grammar.”
New promises that sound like the old promises, just louder.
But let’s skip the performance.
If the previous billions were “investments” 👇
Where is the profit?
Where is the light that doesn’t flicker?
Where is the factory that was supposed to swallow our jobless youths?
Where is the currency that doesn’t shrink in shame every morning?
We are not asking for miracles.
We are asking for see-finish dividends.
If you borrow to build, we should see the building.
If the house is still dark and the stomach is still empty,
then what exactly did we buy with the last refill.
Here is the hard question no one wants to ask:
What if the bucket is not just leaking?
What if the holes are the business model?
Because if the bucket were fixed,
the borrowing would stop.
And for some people,
borrowing is the economy.
The constant “refill” is where the profit lives.
Not in roads.
Not in power.
But in the cycle itself.
Cycles don’t build nations.
They tire them out.
They mortgage the sleep of children not yet born.
And one day, they bury us—
not under the debt,
but under the weight of “big grammar”
that never produced small results.
So before the hired applause begins,
before the technocrats roll out their blue slides,
let the defenders of this new loan answer one question
in the language they fear most:
“The one we take before, where e go?” 🎤
If they cannot answer that plainly,
then they are not fit to hold the next bucket.
And we are not fools to clap for another round of what is slowly burying us.
---Ogbeni ®
