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Nigeria's Biggest Problem-- Ben Murray-bruce by Osirimononaye(m): 8:33am On Apr 07, 2016 |
Many people talk about the problems
militating against Nigeria’s progress and in
doing so they list out corruption, a bad
economy, terrorism or crime. In my opinion,
Nigeria’s biggest problem is not corruption,
a bad economy, terrorism or crime. These
are just symptoms of the problem we face in
Nigeria. Nigeria’s biggest problem is that we
are not united. Fix that and you fix Nigeria!
Today, instead of solving this problem, we
have chosen rather to continue the problem
by poisoning our youth with Nigeria’s
biggest problem of disunity. Right before
our eyes, our youths are using social media
for disunity, fighting each other on basis of
party, religion and tribe. For instance, I was
appalled when a youth tweeted a picture of
another youth who had added him to a
Twitter list called ‘political enemies’. Can you
believe it? Nigeria’s biggest problem is the
reason it was easy so for the colonialists to
colonise our ancestors. We are never united.
Think back to history.
The British did not send a lot of troops to
the Niger area. What they did was send
enough troops to guard their commercial
interests and then those troops under the
command of their officers recruited a local
constabulary which formed the bulk of the
forces that enforced the will of the
colonialists. They were used to pacify
communities that resisted British rule and
yet these were natives of the territory that
would come to be known as Nigeria. A
classic divide and rule strategy. Fast forward
a hundred and twenty years and not much
has changed. It is the same old same old.
The crab mentality where we pull each other
down is still being perpetuated. Our youths
are on social media calling each other IPOB,
aboki and wailers. All that youthful energy
that should have been put into productive
ventures and enterprises is wasted on
hating each other. We take such delight in
using our considerable intelligence to pull
each down and have none left to pull
Nigeria up. Someone brings good ideas but
we do not consider the idea. Rather we
fight the person because he is All
Progressives Congress (APC)/Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP)/North/South/
Christian/Muslim.
Many brilliant Nigerians had their idea
rejected because of where they came from
only to go abroad to be successes. This is
the case with Chinedu Ocheruo and many
other Nigerians who are now celebrated
abroad. To progress as a nation, we must
change. The word ‘United’ in the names of
the United States of America (USA), United
Kingdom (UK) and the United Arab Emirates
(UAE) is what made and keeps making those
nations great. They are not smarter than us.
They are just more united. Look at Chief
Obafemi Awolowo. Imagine where Nigeria
would have been if we forgot where that
great sage came from and coalesced around
his ideas for developing Nigeria. It is
because of disunity that Awolowo was the
“best president we never had”.
Everyone knew he was the best but he was
rejected because we were and are too
focused on artificial divisions like tribe and
creed. Today the economy is tanking, but
instead of that to be our focus, we prefer to
fight while Nigeria burns. If you say the
truth about our economy, you are attacked
as an enemy of the present administration
as if the naira or the dollar respects your
party or your tribe. This is what they did in
Zimbabwe. Where is their economy today?
Do we want Nigeria to go that route?
Nigeria’s biggest problem is disunity and I
call on President Muhammadu Buhari, the 36
state governors, and all ex-presidents to put
aside their differences and help build unity
through their comments and their actions.
Leaders must stop calling each other
derogatory names like wailers, dullards,
zombies etc. Leaders must focus on leading
and not on blaming previous leaders for the
situation in which they find themselves.
Leaders ought to refrain from making
blanket statements that generalise a whole
tribe or ethnic nationality. But most
importantly, leaders must believe in their
people especially on the international stage
and must use every podium made available
to them to sell Nigerians and Nigeria to the
world. If Nigerians see their leaders uniting
irrespective of tribe, religion and party, they
will follow suit.
Recently, the Ese Oruru saga came to public
notice and while it would have been an easy
narrative to generalise and blame the kith
and kin of Yinusa ‘Yellow’, it would also have
made for a false narrative. That is why I
tweeted in the heat of the saga (February
29th) as follows “Our anger should be
directed at the abductor and any negligence
on the part of the police and not on a tribe
or religion”. I kept on hammering this
message on and off social media because I
know that there are only two types of
Nigerians. There are good Nigerians and
there are bad Nigerians. Every other division
is artificial.
The only identity God gives us when we are
born in Nigeria is Nigerian. All other
identities come after that. In conclusion, let
us learn to be blind to party, ethnicity and
religion when issues of Nigeria’s
development are concerned, otherwise we
will never progress, instead we will
retrogress. If we do not learn this, it will be
a case of I and my state against Nigeria, I
and my tribe against my state, I and my
village against my tribe and I and my family
against my village and finally, I against my
brother.
My name is Ben Murray-Bruce and I just
want to make Commonsense! 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria's Biggest Problem-- Ben Murray-bruce by Lytech(m): 8:38am On Apr 07, 2016 |
Our only problem is electricity..
Fix electricity and see how progressive we will become in this nation |
Re: Nigeria's Biggest Problem-- Ben Murray-bruce by Nobody: 8:41am On Apr 07, 2016 |
This canary sometimes do sing a beautiful song nigeria cannot be united the gorge between us is too deep the union should be dissolved,then unity can be fostered among the resulting nations |
Re: Nigeria's Biggest Problem-- Ben Murray-bruce by DIIGZ(m): 8:45am On Apr 07, 2016 |
Any government that is able to solve Electricity and fuel problem in Nigeria will rule for 60yrs,7pm has become time to on Generator in most Nigeria household,was that part of our constitution? Light up Nigeria,it is our right to enjoy electricity and fuel as a Nigerian
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Re: Nigeria's Biggest Problem-- Ben Murray-bruce by leofab(f): 8:47am On Apr 07, 2016 |
Tiresome country |
Re: Nigeria's Biggest Problem-- Ben Murray-bruce by lashout1: 8:54am On Apr 07, 2016 |
This is a take home, hoping we accommodate it in our life time or years. it will spend just hour or few minute in some homes. The poster below me will still call you a wailer. Alot need to be done to change our mindset for unity. |
Re: Nigeria's Biggest Problem-- Ben Murray-bruce by ojnnaco(m): 9:16am On Apr 07, 2016 |
Lytech: |
Re: Nigeria's Biggest Problem-- Ben Murray-bruce by newhyt: 9:30am On Apr 07, 2016 |
The nous senator |
Re: Nigeria's Biggest Problem-- Ben Murray-bruce by Volksfuhrer(m): 10:31am On Apr 07, 2016 |
Lytech: He is saying "disunity" is the reason why the problem of electricity persists till now. |
Re: Nigeria's Biggest Problem-- Ben Murray-bruce by 100Cents: 10:31am On Apr 07, 2016 |
Oh our father...
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