On national security, President Muhammadu Buhari, recently, said he has done everything that he can do to ensure the best national security for Nigeria. Some critics have come out to say Mr President's best is not good enough.



This position is contestable: we must not limit our vision to seeing what can only be seen, no matter the distance between, but we must also learn or improvise on how to see the "unseen".



If work is easily done in the day because daylight makes it easy for us to see everything we do clearly, and from appreciable distances, we do not usually have the same convenience if work must be done at night - we make other provisions to help us see in darkness (the unseen).



It is a very unfair assessment of Mr President to list that he moved our foreign exchange from N189/Dollar to N472/Dollar. The figures are facts, but the assessment of Mr President on the matter is not true. Others also listed are: inflation - from 8% to 16%, unemployment - from 11% to 38%, and on national security - he has added killer herdsmen and bandits to Boko Haram.



Have we asked what our contributions to the problem are? What are the contents of our thoughts on our common humanity?



It is very easy to assess what is seen than what is unseen. My Holy Book tells me that "the LOVE of money is the ROOT of all evil. This is the conclusion of the whole matter, as to why Nigeria cannot move forward: imagine what the root is to a tree: it avails the tree its sustenance and balance.



The root is the strongest, but hidden aspect of what defines a tree. Everything about a tree takes to itself from the root. The root is the unseen powerhouse of a tree. In the case of EVIL: what sustains evil in a nation therefore, and gives it a balance in that society, is the LOVE the people have for MONEY.



Let us all take personal looks at ourselves - we all are the problem Nigeria has with our dwindling economy! 98% of Nigerians are buried daily in pursuing money, and sometimes doing this against humanity: the public servants who are employed and paid to serve, we find extorting money from us using thier paid service as tools of violence.



It is a spiritual warfare, not a physical one. We are dealing with A ROOT, and when anything is unseen, then dealing with it must also be by unseen means: Nigeria's problem is a national affliction by her people on her people.



At elections, people sell off their mandates. Every crisis the citizens face, a Nigerian service provider maximises his opportunity and multiplies his gains through the helplessness of his fellow man. A man who comes as a helper, can be your killer. Today, crime has created well paying jobs that our government has not been able to create.



Are we then to legalise crime because it gives cheap but huge benefits? Nooo! An economy is not built by the amount of money in circulation, and satisfaction is not in affordability but in contentment. An economy is built by the "factors of production" amd the "balance of trade". Investigate our rich men, few have atrained their wealth appropriately.



We need just laws to rule!



Do we know what man's inhumanity to man does to our economy? If you say Buhari met the Dollar at N189 and now it is N472/$, how was the rate of kidnappings when it was N189/$, banditary nko? Cybercrimes nko? Do we know how much damage the unprocessed monies raised and filtered into our economy does to it, without the necesssry "production" that should throw the monies up?



Today, no one knows why our entertainment industry is the biggest non-governmental industry in Nigeria, engaging our youths and making them obscenely rich. What do we see of, and about these youths making these monies in entertainment. Can we honestly leave Nigeria in their hands?



I see so many Nigerians who have taken the Almighty God for granted. This is what our entertainment industry has left us with - people like Bobrisky with about 2.5m followers on instagram - what does he teach? What do our music icons teach when the prominent of them are cult-like appearings?



What can President Buhari do?



This is a spiritual war. Looking at President Buhari in this matter is like looking at someone because you can easily see him. It is like seeing the leaves of a tree, which is possible from any distance, but try finding the root from the same distance and you would see the difference.



If the root of the tree is a problem, even if you stand under the tree, you cannot see it, to solve it; until you "dig it" up! This is why facts may not show a true position. Facts cannot support the truth: you cannot use broomsticks for a tripod. Only truth can support a fact.



So lets start, as a people, to dig out the root of our national problems - the love of money.



Look at yourself, measure your own degree of your love for money, and begin to dig it up. It will help us to see more of humanity and the cohesion needed to move our country from an impending disaster.



Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria via "time.subsidaries@gmail.com"