MY CONCLUSION (Part II)

“A leader that does not make errors is been insincere to his or herself. Nobody is perfect, hence the need to always admit mistakes, and make corrections as soon as possible; so as to avoid rancor”.

Nigeria as a country lacks quality leadership, not because we do not have good leaders; but because of the way and manner our political parties have turned our politics into “the highest bidder takes it all”. You can imagine when an ordinary form of 3-4 pages called nomination form is sold for millions of naira, why will somebody folk out their hard earned money for just nomination form, knowing that if they lose they will not be refunded back their money. So nobody that is working so hard will be ready to spend that kind of man money, unless they have god fathers; which on the other hand is another monster that killing our country. Politics in Nigeria now is like the rich getting richer, while the poor keeps getting poorer.

The issue of diversifying Nigeria’s economy is very paramount to the country if they want to come of the economic meltdown. If think the president lacks sound economic advisers, because if he does; he wouldn’t be making all these economic policies that looks so archaic and out of possibility. Nigeria is a country where the leaders talk too much without backing it with actions. We have so many solid mineral resources apart from crude oil like; tin ore, iron ore, coal, lead, limestone, gold, which if been harnessed very well we will help to boost the economy. But nobody is thinking of doing anything. The minister of mines and steel, I don’t know if he even exists, he just there whiling away his time. We have so many myopic minds that have been neglecting the situations in the country, some of them are even sabotaging their own country, for their personal interest; is that not wickedness? What a country.

The issue of power is another issue that should be looked into, because it is the foundation for a vibrant industrial nation. Any country that wants to be the economic powers does not play with power generation. No industry can survive without constant electricity. You can imagine when an individual or a company spends more than have of their profit on generators, diesel and petrol; the effect is an eye sore. It is very unfortunate that in this 21^st century Nigeria is still battling with 3-4 thousand mega watts, after spending billions of dollars on power, yet nothing to show for it. These same politicians are the ones sabotaging their so called “fatherland”.

On how to generate constant power, not that we don’t have the natural resources to give us power; we have them in abundance. We have gas, coal, dams, solar and even lightening; but nobody is looking into these directions, the rich men are just investing their money in generators, what a shame! The most annoying is that this country called Nigeria is giving their neighbors electricity, but they can never be constant power in her own country, it’s a pity. How can they expect the country to grow, without power, no good road, no good healthcare system, no sound educational system; I weep for Nigeria.

Nigeria is a country that has 3 standard refineries that can produce millions of barrels of crude oil, instead of looking more money in achieving this; they are channeling this money in importing a product that is domiciled in their own country. People are just suffering in the midst of plenty, this people are intentionally doing all these things to kill us; but we will not die there.

On the issues of Nigeria’s hospitals visa-viz the health care system is just an eye sore. This is a country where people die at the slightest outbreak of any illness, because the government has deliberately abandoned the healthcare system in Nigeria for the ones abroad. Nigeria as a country is blessed with so many sound and intellectual male and female medical doctors and health personnel generally, but the government has decided to neglect them, hence the end product is what we are seeing right now, no good and sound equipment in case of emergency, so many hospitals no longer place top priority for human lives anymore, they prefer to see a patient die if they do not give out money on the spot for medical treatment. People are just for no just cause; for instance the Late Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Sun Newspaper Mr. Dimba Igwe died due to the neglect of our hospitals due to their placing top priority on money instead of individual’s life. Mr. Dimba was hit by an unknown bus driver while during his early jogging exercise in his street. He was taken to different hospitals, and instead of treating him, they keep transferring him from one hospital to the other; this man died from the severe bleeding he had, after been taken to more than four hospitals. This and many more are still happening in this country, people are dying every day as a result of the intentional neglect of the health care system in Nigeria. Even the ones that are ready to work are not been paid their salaries. No wonder we are still backward.

Our politicians keep travelling abroad for medical treatment, taken our foreign exchange to other countries, hence depriving their own the forex and encouraging Europeanization. Why not channel all these monies into the healthcare system, and make Nigeria a medical tourist country, so people from abroad will be coming to the country for medical treatment; hence increasing our forex storage and at large the economy, no will not do it, too bad for the country.

The issue of employment has been a thorn in the flesh of so many Nigerians, gone are those days when once you graduate from the higher institution, companies are lining up to employ this graduates, but now no way; graduates are the ones begging, going extra miles to get jobs. It’s now an issue of “man know man” graduate now fight for contacts for good jobs instead of working on themselves, that is what bad governance can give them.

Nigeria as a country is so blessed with talented people in different fields of life, be it music, acting, dancing, writing, law, broadcasting, “cattle rearing” yes cattle rearing because this field produced the current president of the country. The issue now is that we don’t have the will power from the government to turn talents into an industrial base just like what the United States is doing, that will boost the economy and create more jobs for the people.

You see our policemen looking so retched and confused due to the fact that their salaries are very little and poor, so they have no other choice than to collect their normal daily contribution called “roger” though am not holding any brief for them, because some of them are born criminals and mentally derailed. I think before someone must be recruited into the police force, not only should the person possess a senior secondary school certificate; which should be the minimum qualification, the person should also be made to go through mental and psychological examination before they can be considered, so as to avoid all this incessant nuisance of the policemen in this country.