ON WHO ARE THE REAL ENEMIES OF NIGERIA’S PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT?
May 18, 2021 | News
As one who always looks at the future, who looks for sustainable growth and true development for our people, Smart Ofugara, as an advocate of good governance and social justice, and who is based in the US, must be commended for finding time to dwell on issues affecting Nigeria and proffer solutions where necessary. This is unlike many others in the diaspora that I know.
-By Zik Gbemre
ON WHO ARE THE REAL ENEMIES OF NIGERIA’S PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT?
Questions that would open our eyes to identify those who are the true enemies of the nation…
Whatever that is wrong with our country, is wrong with almost every citizen…
As one who always looks at the future, who looks for sustainable growth and true development for our people, Smart Ofugara, as an advocate of good governance and social justice, and who is based in the US, must be commended for finding time to dwell on issues affecting Nigeria and proffer solutions where necessary. This is unlike many others in the diaspora that I know.
In another short piece recently, Smart Ofugara asked some broad-based questions that should open the minds and eyes of Nigerians, to see and recognize those who are the true enemies of Nigeria’s progress and development in all these years. When we honestly ask ourselves the under listed questions that are presented by Ofugara, and put in the answers, based on what has been happening in the country’s Government public space across all levels, then we would arm ourselves with the right knowledge, and shame those that need to be shamed and kicked out whenever the opportunity presents itself.
“Who stole money and kept it in foreign banks? Who are those buying houses abroad and do not live in them? But see it as their own investment? Who got billions of contracts and did not execute them? Who killed local industries (Refineries) to import petroleum products used by their own people? Who built airports in villages to boost ego and today are not economically viable? Who refused to execute her own development plans? Who refused to implement research findings? Who killed the palm kernel and encouraged Malaysia vegetable oil? Or who killed their own agriculture for finished or processed food?
“Who is importing fertilizer on paper? Who killed our monetary policies to benefit their pockets? Who killed our hospitals, pharmacies, engineering and encouraged brain drain? Who killed education and encourage emigration to educate kids who will hardly return? Who killed electricity or power generation to develop generator sales? Who built churches as big as the Basilica with no maintenance plan? Who developed a society without maintenance culture to its facilities? Who made sure that insecurity in our society was a thriving business? Who is importing substandard products - from drugs to tires, batteries, spare parts etc.?”
While we may know the basic answer to these questions, it is also imperative for every one of us to understand this, as once reiterated by DayStar Pastor, Sam Adeyemi: “Whatever that is wrong with our country, is wrong with almost every citizen. The person that insists on taking bribe from you before you get the document you are supposed to get from a government office, is that the President? No, it is the average Nigerian like you and me. The person that breaks the traffic rule on the road, it is not the President. So, it is that average Nigerian, that Construct of the average Nigerian, that is the person that is in politics. That is the person in the Judiciary; that is the person in the Legislature; that is the person in Government Offices; that is the person at the top, and that is the person at the bottom; that is the person that is stealing as a staff of a Bank.
“It is the construction of that person that we need to look at. The Institutions that are supposed to help build the person’s mental construct from childhood – block by block. If you have any country where people are behaving right, it started from day one – from their childhood. It starts from the family. It is in the curriculum of the schools…” These are basic and undeniable Truths we need to carefully look into and address if we really want to see any positive changes in Nigeria’s future.
Zik Gbemre.
May 18, 2021
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
-By Zik Gbemre
ON WHO ARE THE REAL ENEMIES OF NIGERIA’S PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT?
Questions that would open our eyes to identify those who are the true enemies of the nation…
Whatever that is wrong with our country, is wrong with almost every citizen…
As one who always looks at the future, who looks for sustainable growth and true development for our people, Smart Ofugara, as an advocate of good governance and social justice, and who is based in the US, must be commended for finding time to dwell on issues affecting Nigeria and proffer solutions where necessary. This is unlike many others in the diaspora that I know.
In another short piece recently, Smart Ofugara asked some broad-based questions that should open the minds and eyes of Nigerians, to see and recognize those who are the true enemies of Nigeria’s progress and development in all these years. When we honestly ask ourselves the under listed questions that are presented by Ofugara, and put in the answers, based on what has been happening in the country’s Government public space across all levels, then we would arm ourselves with the right knowledge, and shame those that need to be shamed and kicked out whenever the opportunity presents itself.
“Who stole money and kept it in foreign banks? Who are those buying houses abroad and do not live in them? But see it as their own investment? Who got billions of contracts and did not execute them? Who killed local industries (Refineries) to import petroleum products used by their own people? Who built airports in villages to boost ego and today are not economically viable? Who refused to execute her own development plans? Who refused to implement research findings? Who killed the palm kernel and encouraged Malaysia vegetable oil? Or who killed their own agriculture for finished or processed food?
“Who is importing fertilizer on paper? Who killed our monetary policies to benefit their pockets? Who killed our hospitals, pharmacies, engineering and encouraged brain drain? Who killed education and encourage emigration to educate kids who will hardly return? Who killed electricity or power generation to develop generator sales? Who built churches as big as the Basilica with no maintenance plan? Who developed a society without maintenance culture to its facilities? Who made sure that insecurity in our society was a thriving business? Who is importing substandard products - from drugs to tires, batteries, spare parts etc.?”
While we may know the basic answer to these questions, it is also imperative for every one of us to understand this, as once reiterated by DayStar Pastor, Sam Adeyemi: “Whatever that is wrong with our country, is wrong with almost every citizen. The person that insists on taking bribe from you before you get the document you are supposed to get from a government office, is that the President? No, it is the average Nigerian like you and me. The person that breaks the traffic rule on the road, it is not the President. So, it is that average Nigerian, that Construct of the average Nigerian, that is the person that is in politics. That is the person in the Judiciary; that is the person in the Legislature; that is the person in Government Offices; that is the person at the top, and that is the person at the bottom; that is the person that is stealing as a staff of a Bank.
“It is the construction of that person that we need to look at. The Institutions that are supposed to help build the person’s mental construct from childhood – block by block. If you have any country where people are behaving right, it started from day one – from their childhood. It starts from the family. It is in the curriculum of the schools…” These are basic and undeniable Truths we need to carefully look into and address if we really want to see any positive changes in Nigeria’s future.
Zik Gbemre.
May 18, 2021
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes