Nigeria is full of socio-economic and political problems. Surprisingly, the problems in Nigeria are not natural but man-made; the problems in Nigeria are caused by Nigerians for Nigerians.
What are the problems in Nigeria? There are communal clashes, virtually, everyday and in everywhere in Nigeria; town A will wake up in the morning and start battling with town B for a small piece of land on the account that their forefathers that they were not even born before they died told them that the piece of land belongs to them. And before you will know it there would be loss of lives and property.
There is unemployment in Nigeria. Young school leavers are all over the place searching for employment that doesn't even exist. Well, it is so because Nigerians don't go to school to be empowered but to be employed. Nigerians don't go to school to have knowledge but to become gainfully employed at the end of the day.
The health care system is very bad. You may be surprised to hear from a medical doctor that there are no drugs in the hospital. The medical attention given to hospital patients is nothing to write home about not necessarily because the medical personnel are not well trained but because there are inadequate medical equipment to take of the sick people. Consequently, people die of minor health problems in the hospital.
Worst of all, about 70 per cent of Nigerians are living below poverty level. Poverty is the mother of all problems because it has the ability to lead to many other problems such as crime and so on.
What are the problems in Nigeria? There are communal clashes, virtually, everyday and in everywhere in Nigeria; town A will wake up in the morning and start battling with town B for a small piece of land on the account that their forefathers that they were not even born before they died told them that the piece of land belongs to them. And before you will know it there would be loss of lives and property.
There is unemployment in Nigeria. Young school leavers are all over the place searching for employment that doesn't even exist. Well, it is so because Nigerians don't go to school to be empowered but to be employed. Nigerians don't go to school to have knowledge but to become gainfully employed at the end of the day.
The health care system is very bad. You may be surprised to hear from a medical doctor that there are no drugs in the hospital. The medical attention given to hospital patients is nothing to write home about not necessarily because the medical personnel are not well trained but because there are inadequate medical equipment to take of the sick people. Consequently, people die of minor health problems in the hospital.
Worst of all, about 70 per cent of Nigerians are living below poverty level. Poverty is the mother of all problems because it has the ability to lead to many other problems such as crime and so on.
Why are some Nigerians clamouring for democracy? Why are human rights, or their abuse thereof, one of the topical issues in Nigeria today? Why are some Nigerians asking for a rotational presidency? Why are some Nigerians asking for the regionalisation of Nigeria's armed forces? Finding solutions to these problems or answers to these questions is like peeling the layers of an onion. In the process of peeling these layers, you eventually come to the bulb. It is this same bulb, the nucleus, so to speak, that you plant to beget another onion. But the bulb itself will not grow to be an onion, unless planted, manured, and watered. It is this analogy that describes the approach taken by my friend and compatriot, Bedford Umez. It is a focus on a long-term solution to Nigeria's problems.
No society will survive when most of its leaders and elites believe that charity begins abroad by so wickedly robbing their own people only to deposit the loot in foreign banks. Only ignorant leaders can rob the people they are supposed to serve just to feed foreigners; only those leaders suffering from an acute overdose of inferiority complex are proud to build greener pastures in foreign countries when their own people are dying daily due to lack of pasture.
The belief that charity begins at home guarantees growth, progress and development; the belief that charity begins abroad assures self-destruction. Even wild animals understand this simple fact of life, and therefore share their prey among themselves, protect their young and defend their territories. And, of course, the leaders and elites of the countries we call "developed" and "civilized" understand that simple fact of life as well, and therefore wisely refuse to rob their own people only to feed Nigerians/Africans; in fact, they prudently invest their countries’ funds in their own countries, knowing that a rat does not labor for a squirrel.
Indeed, any society that encourages capital flight, embezzlement of public funds, corruption, abuse and misuse of public property in its midst is guilty of mass murder. Embezzlement of public funds, capital flight, abuse and misuse of public property constitute an act of genocide, and those leaders and elites perpetuating such atrocities in Nigeria and Africa are guilty of mass murder and therefore must be brought to justice.
A Free Nigeria is Possible only when we have a Free Reasoning that will give birth to National Renaissance.
I call on you as a friend to join me in this crusade for a Free Nigeria.
"Freedom we can achieve" for Nigeria!
Yes, we can!
