This is to everyone just pushing it today, insha Allah the
morrow will be better. We wake up in this country to people
lamenting about the state of things - our failed
infrastructure,
failed economy, failed governance and a host of others. But
what amaze me is that even with all these, people strive
despite the government rather than because of the
government. For people to excel they literally wrestle the
platforms put in place by the government rather than these
platforms been a guide. We see parents suffering to cater
for
their kids just to leave a legacy. We see students sleep in
laboratories because there is no equipment to monitor
research when they are not there. We see farmers after the
suffering of planting and harvesting walk long distances
with
their farm produce. We see women turn labourers, the
worse
is seeing a pregnant labourer. We see students sponsor
their
academic life and push the limits just to get a text book.
And
what bothers me the most is seeing children hawk, run
errands just so they could go to school. My question is if
we
can endure this much, what will be the situation if power is
not a problem? What will be the situation if admission is the
birth right of every student that meets the needed
requirements? what will be the situation if our libraries are
stocked? What will be the situation if everyone have access
to
initiatives that would take you to your desired land? If they
say people in the developed world have great minds I say
people in my country have greater minds, better creativity,
better initiatives and above all unrelenting attitude. So
despite
the nation we will not relent, we'll keep striving and moving,
we run, if we can't run we jog, if we can't jog we walk, if we
can't walk we crawl. Thank you.