Why building a country is a deliberate and progressive endeavour
Building a country is a deliberate and progressive endeavour needing the collaboration of most if not all.
We have different but Important roles to play in building and rebuilding our country.
We are not going to build by attacking one another and encouraging division and strife, we build by coming together despite our differences and by making the hard choice to accommodate the shortcomings of one another while working on reducing or eliminating them.
We can build a country where an elephant and a mouse can live together and sleep on the same bed.
They both need to be constantly aware of what they are doing knowing that one could casually roll over and smash the other without even realizing it.
This is the story in every great nation.
You have the strong and weak; rich and poor; privileged and underprivileged; the haves and haves-not.
But they stay together in one large tent-needing each other and one another.
Can you imagine a country with only strong, rich, and privileged people! Who will do their dirty jobs and massage their huge egos?
Who will validate their importance and make them have a feeling of differentiated importance?
The rich, strong, and privileged, needs the weak, poor, and underprivileged, more than they need them.
One common trend in Western Societies is that they care for the poor. They understand that for a nation to enjoy peace and make progress, the poor, the vulnerable, and the disadvantaged must be cared for and helped to obtain a decent living.
They provide housing, security, health, education, employment, and in default, unemployment benefits, and other things for them.
They create opportunities for upward mobility for them through deliberately targeted policies, thereby building security systems that are constantly aided by social policies in fighting crimes.
The current government in Nigeria understand this concept and has introduced several measures and policies to help the poor, but it is not having the desired impact because of the high level of poverty in the country because of corruption and long years of neglect and misgovernance.
But we can’t give up. Not now.
The consequences are unimaginable. I know some people believe that things will be better if we go our separate ways and it could well be, except that no one can explain to us why things are almost the same in all parts of the country even with independently managed States!
We can make Nigeria work if we put our hearts to it. We need leaders who are builders, shapers and birthers of national attitudes and values.
We only need to commit to causes greater than ourselves.
