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Nigeria’s case should be a matter of great thoughts. This is most especially for those who had tasted a semblance of enjoyment.
Although I spent most of my youthful years under one military regime or the other, I did enjoy growing up. And if I can say that, gba o, what we’re having now is real suffering.
But I should think it’s time we stopped blaming those at the top. While they can’t deny the fact that they just don’t have any business leading us, I should ask what role we played individually and collectively towards good governance.
My point is that there can’t be government without citizenship. It’s like asking for leaders without followers.
Have we not failed in our God assigned duty of providing good leaders for ourselves? And this is so simple.
We just need to have a sense of self esteem.
We must make sure our ‘no’ to malgovernance is sincere.
We must realize our rulers are not doing us any favor by ruling us. To me, all things being equal, ruling a state is no rocket science. Especially, a state that has so much resources.
We must have a sense of shame. For instance, one doesn’t jump queues in better climes because those who do will certainly be looked down upon. People tend to believe they are either raving mad or ignorant.
We hardly need anyone to be telling us to clean our environment. It should be as natural as ABC.
Then apart from mentoring, we need to look at everyone as a prospective governor, president and so on.
Until we start doing that, we’ll remain in the position of encouragement by silence. That’s another way of saying,
Agb’po l’aja o ja’le, eni gba l’owo e gan l’ole!
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